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

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Mark Rivituso, auxiliary of St. Louis, as metropolitan archbishop of Mobile, Alabama.

Amid all the talk of kings in American, columnist Ron Faucheux takes a look at electoral politics in a couple of countries that know a thing or two about monarchy.

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.

Far from home and only a mere teenager, her transition to the French way of life is met with many bumps, most notably her struggle to connect with her spouse and soon-to-be king, Louis XVI.

Marie Antoinette is famous for her decadence. Or her supposed decadence, anyway. By the time she was executed at the guillotine on October 16, 1793 (nine months after her husband, King Louis XVI ...

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.