How about a trip back in time this summer? UNESCO-listed abbeys, fortified bastide villages, pilgrimage towns: these five ...

The government should probably do the right thing and declare Wednesday, June 25, a national holiday. It’s the first ...

B y 1789, years of financial crisis, poor harvests, and rising food prices had left much of France in turmoil. Public anger ...

While the idea might be novel for many Americans, military parades are common spectacles in many parts of the world.

Trump envies the military spectacle that France perfected, but his ghoulish celebration is the complete opposite.

By the 18th century the number of possible identities kept increasing. Some said the man in the iron mask was a bastard son of Anne of Austria (Louis’s mother) and half brother to the king.

Located on Paris’ east side, the Bastille was a towering medieval fortress that once housed prisoners and continued to act as “a symbol of arbitrary royal power” in the eyes of working-class ...

On July 14, 1789, revolutionaries stormed the Bastille fortress and prison in Paris, heralding the start of the French Revolution and the end of the monarchy.

PARIS (AP) — Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday Sunday — the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s grandiose military parade for Bastille Day. Just 12 days ...