Swiss-French watchmaker to European royalty and perhaps the greatest horologist of all time — began work on what would become one of his signature inventions: the tourbillon. French for “whirlwind,” ...

The building once housed a 19th-century printing house that produced the first edition of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami ...

In the wake of the bloody French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Germaine de Staël kept the ideas of freedom alive at her ...

Emmanuel Carrère’s best sellers on Russia grew out of a deep affection. Since Moscow invaded Ukraine, he has traveled to the ...

It was the most prosaic of equipment for the grandest of heists: a ladder, propped right under the noses of French guards. The thieves exited as they entered, through a window, fleeing with nearly all ...

Famous for his groundbreaking shows, the American stage director, who died this summer at the age of 83, was also a great ...

Socialism has a well-earned reputation as a secular, rational movement. But not all socialists throughout history were quite ...

In the 13th century, thousands in France were investigated, massacred, or even burned at the stake by the Catholic Church.

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

The Museum of Fine Arts of Draguignan in France will be opening a very interesting exhibition next month entitled Le phare ...

Yet, there was one decision that she had put off making for years — selling her family’s estate accumulated over the past two centuries. “I was very sad, because it meant I was dismantling an era,” ...

France is known for its fine cuisine. A new exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum explores how that came to be.