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World leaders gathered in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the WWI Armistice.; French President Emmanuel Macron rebuked nationalism at a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe.; US President ...
Fifty years of peace in Paris resulted in an explosion of new artistic movements. From the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 to the beginning of World War I, French creatives revolutionized ...
On March 23, 1918, Germany stunned the world by hitting Paris from 75 miles away with a massive cannon that defied logic and changed the face of warfare. Known as the Paris Gun, it was hidden in ...
The French tried to outsmart the Germans during WWI by building a fake Paris. Fearful of an overnight aerial attack, the French began building a fake town miles away from actual Paris.
A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country's Nazi occupation in World War II was defaced Tuesday with painted blood-red ...
One of its leaders is the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who also relies (amazingly!) on the support of communist and Green groups. I wrote about her in a recent article for the magazine ...
What we’ve witnessed here in Paris is part of a larger, ignominious Olympic tradition: the brass-knuckled displacement of working-class and poor people to clear space for the Games, whether in ...
A half-ton World War II-era bomb found near train tracks in a crowded residential area just outside of Paris unleashed travel chaos across the region Friday, prompting disruptions at Europe's ...
A World War II-era bomb was discovered in a rail station in Europe. Train service halted on March 7, 2025, at Paris' Gare du Nord Rail Station. Travelers are advised to re-book for another day or ...
Lights on the Eiffel Tower will soon be turned off more than an hour earlier at night to save electricity, the Paris mayor announced Tuesday, as Russia’s war in Ukraine deepens an energy crisis ...
A new exhibit, “After Cubism: Modern Art in Paris, 1918-1948,” opens Friday, Aug. 18, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, exploring the changing landscape of modern art in Paris in the years ...