After Chardin mentioned to a fellow painter that any sum of money was appreciated, even for a portrait, his friend replied, ...

Following the news that the Pompidou Centre is closing for five years, another famous French attraction is shutting down for ...

In 19th-century France, the young chemist challenged the theory of spontaneous generation and discovered an invisible world ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in France. “Of all the universities in the world,” Herring writes, “none has ever ...

Its inside-out construction could not have been further from the surrounding buildings, created in Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum is presenting the first major exhibition of Gustave Caillebotte in the United States. Caillebotte ...

Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.

Marguerite is controlled by the whims of her guardian, leading her away from home to urban France, onto a ship and ... de la Rocque de Roberval, a 16th century French noblewoman who personally ...

Elon Musk has reportedly taken over the Treasury Department’s central payment system, putting him in the position to unilaterally cut off federal funding to disfavored programs and setting off ...

The yellow and blue tulle gown incorporates a print inspired by Degas’s 19th-century depictions of Parisian ballet dancers. Figures from the dress resemble the woman Degas painted in works ...

Join Sylvia Sagona's lecture to learn more about the archetype of the flàneur of 19th century Paris. Check ticket for details. Forever associated with the Impressionist streetscapes of Paris, the ...