Marie Antoinette—played by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's stunning new film—used her distinctive personal style to defy the ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

Bastille Day is France’s national holiday and is celebrated every year on July 14th. The day commemorates a significant event in French history – the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789. The event ...

The City of Light. The Capital of Love. A center of haute couture and haute cuisine. Paris has many faces. Now, Paris City ...

The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history. Yet it still ...

Louis XVI: “Either you make a deal or we’re out, and if we’re out, you don’t have the cards. I think we’ve had enough for today. This is going to be great for the gazettes.” ...

Before dying, his father made a decision that may have saved his son’s life: after his wife contracted smallpox, he ordered that Louis Philippe and his younger sister, Bathilde, be inoculated by the ...

The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, is one of the French Revolution’s most iconic moments. That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution.

The statue of King Louis XVI was showered with confetti Sept. 10, 2004. It was announced that the statue, donated to the city in 1967, would be cleaned and repaired.

The statue of King Louis XIV was donated to Louisville by the France in 1966. It was on display before being removed in 2020.

As Jha, an economist at Stanford, and Wilkinson, a University political scientist at Yale University, demonstrate in the study, the royal soldiers sent by French king Louis XVI to fight alongside ...