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Walking through Natchitoches feels like stepping back in time to old-world France, with historical landmarks and beautifully preserved colonial structures adding to its allure. While New Orleans is ...
France's parliament on Monday approved returning to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the Ebrie tribe in 1916, in the latest boost to the repatriation of colonial spoils. In ...
Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...
The voting reform, which Macron said he will push back by several weeks, would allow thousands more French residents who have lived in New Caledonia for 10 years to vote, diluting the vote of the ...
A French new wave is sweeping the Big Apple -- when it comes to restaurants, that is. Top chefs including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Eric Ripert and Daniel Humm also celebratd what would have been ...
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The ongoing crisis in New Caledonia threatens to unravel more than three decades of French diplomatic engagement, as well as ...
In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the Treaty of Dover, signed between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France, ...
New Caledonia has marked the anniversary of its French colonization with tight security and simmering tensions between the pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and the white settler ...
NEW ORLEANS — A piece of New Orleans’ colonial past is being restored, thanks to a gift from the Spanish government. The City of New Orleans and the Vieux Carré Commission (VCC) announced the ...
Is New Orleans French bread used for po-boys really French? Here's the history. As is so often the case with Louisiana food, the backstory here is a confluence of different peoples and traditions.
French President Emmanuel Macron's ambitions to deepen French influence in ... formed in 1986 to back decolonisation for Melanesian countries still under colonial rule, ... World-Check, opens new tab.