One of France’s largest port towns ... Permanent Guignol theatres have been a fixture in Paris since the 19th century, such as the one Atget captured here in the Jardin du Luxembourg. One of the most ...

As an exhibition of Józef Chełmoński's work breaks records in Warsaw, we look at why the 19th century artist has reignited ...

Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...

A fire in Paris’s 12th district town hall broke out overnight from Sunday to Monday, ravaging the roof and bell tower of the ...

Fire engulfed the town hall of Paris’ 12th district early Monday, causing no casualties but severely damaging the bell tower of the 19th century building.

More than 300 homeless African immigrants are camping out in the Gaîté Lyrique, waiting for officials to rule on whether they ...

American presidents have libraries to preserve their legacy. The French prefer glass. Francois Mitterrand gave the Louvre its ...

Fire engulfed the town hall of Paris’ 12th district early Monday, causing no casualties but severely damaging the bell tower of the 19th ...

A fire overnight Sunday to Monday ravaged the roof and bell tower of a town hall in one of Paris's districts, police and ...

In the history of both painting and the culinary arts, late 19th-century France remains an unrivalled ... unrest and social change. With the Paris Commune of 1870, civil insurgency beset the ...