Madame Tussauds, now a global wax museum brand, has its roots in the French Revolution, where Marie Tussaud crafted death ...

Remember that in 1789, France’s King Louis XVI, fed up with challenges to his own absolute monarchy, fired the finance ...

The BBC's Katty Kay speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson as America marks 250 years since ...

From the unmissable Palace of Versailles to the architectural pearls of the Loire, here is a selection of the most magnificent French châteaux. These ten royal and ducal residences have become jewels ...

(adoc-photos/Corbis) King Louis XVI is captured trying to escape France. "This country is full of zeal and fire," writes Napoleon, now a first lieutenant and a proponent of the French Revolution.

Louis XVI, eager to seed his sublime Château de ... to the romantic (he’d been swept up in the spirit of the French Revolution). In his notes to André Michaux in North America, Williams ...

But he is actually describing the character – well-meaning, not uncourageous, but deeply flawed – of Louis XVI, one of the last Bourbons, who, famously, could neither remember nor forget anything. A ...

In “Shots Heard Round the World,” John Ferling argues that substantial – and secret – aid from France helped the colonists ...

New Zealand’s biggest film festival is back. The French Film Festival Aotearoa returns from May 28, bringing the magic of French cinema to audiences across 24 towns and cities - including exciting new ...