Thérèse, Louis-Joseph, Louis-Charles, and Sophie — and all of them suffered tragic fates like their mother. Sophie, the ...

In the early 19th century, a gifted and divisive figure from France became a political giant in Europe – and it wasn’t ...

Carême takes place during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte after the French Revolution. The chef, played by Benjamin Voisin, ...

French women went to the polls for the first time, during municipal elections on 29 April 1945 – turning a centuries-long battle for equa ...

The suspect has been named as Justin P. by French outlet Le Parisien. Four people were stabbed in total with one reportedly being a female student who died from her injuries. Two remain in ...

The fates of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution are widely known. What happened to their children is another story. Only two of the French royals’ four children outlived ...

Meanwhile, tensions are rising between the main political factions of the Revolution, the Girondins and the Montagnard, led by the icy Maximilien Robespierre. The streets of Paris teem with armed ...

They returned fire with what Ralph Waldo Emerson described as the shot heard round the world, and they began a revolution that gave us our nation.” The 1775 battle continued throughout the day ...

After a long interview in French early this month, Mr. Carney was asked to rate his French on a scale of 1 to 10. He gave himself a 6, but added: “I’m from Alberta. I’m 60 years old.

As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s story is told, in Washington and beyond. By Jennifer Schuessler ...

The Cultural Revolution was one of the most turbulent and radical periods in modern Chinese history. Its goal was to reassert Mao Zedong’s control and preserve communist ideology by purging ...

A British man has died after an avalanche at a ski resort in the French Alps, local officials say. The 27-year-old man died after being buried in snow at a ski resort and carried about 15m (49ft ...