Maximilien de Robespierreborn in Arras in 1758, was one of the main political leaders of revolutionary France: he was part ...

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

The King has welcomed president Emmanuel Macron to Britain by upgrading the famous “entente cordiale” to the “entente amicale ...

Marie Antoinette—played by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's stunning new film—used her distinctive personal style to defy the ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

Philosophers as different as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Carl Schmitt, and Antonio Gramsci all claimed him as a predecessor, but each seemed to embrace a different Machiavelli.

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Jean Marie French Hundley of Shreveport died on May 6, 2025, at the age of 96. Jean was born in New Orleans on September 23, 1928, the daughter of ...

While Haiti was isolated from the world, fictionalized accounts of its only monarch, Henry Christophe, were often written and repeated for political gains, a new book argues.

Stories about the wealthy being subjected to misfortune have scratched a schadenfreude itch for centuries. Now novels are ...

French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has announced he is adapting bestselling novel Changer l’eau des fleurs by Valérie Perrin, with Leïla Bekhti in the lead role as a beloved cemetery caretaker ...

PARIS — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and ...