During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

The concept of rights has been a cornerstone in the evolution of human civilization, shaping societies and defining the ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

For both Locke and Montesquieu, private property was more fundamental than any political “right,” and this required ...

Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply “Voltaire” in 1718. Candide is his most enduring work—a raw, rollicking, ...

The fervent insistence on economic equality traces its modern roots at least as far back as Jean Jacques Rousseau and the French Revolution, and, of course, also to Karl Marx's yearning for a ...

The new word was used to describe a new phenomenon – what the French writer Nicolas Chamfort defined ... Samuel Johnson and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and later Byron, Chateaubriand and Liszt, wrestled ...

Let the light in. Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its galleries for European painting, the superprime real estate at the top of its grand staircase is ...

Jacques was 21 and Jean-Claude was 20. It was 1956, and Jacques was working in Paris, as the chef at Matignon, the residence of the French prime minister, preparing elaborate dishes like capon ...

Chef, cookbook author, and French food expert Jacques Pépin has been doling out culinary wisdom for decades, and at age 89 — when he’s not busy painting — he’s still an active force in ...