Sadly for French watchmaking, this was also when the guillotining started. And most of the posh heads that rolled were the ...

The right literature, sure, and, of course, the Château de Versailles itself. But here’s the catch. The general public’s ...

A map published by Earth System Science Data shows the dramatic decrease in forest-covered land in the United States since the 17th century. Before European settlement in the early 1600s ...

Delémont (Switzerland) (AFP) – The Moutier-Grandval Bible, an illustrated ninth-century masterpiece considered ... The priceless Bible was produced in Tours in France in around 830-840, before ...

The Colonel Alexander Erwin Sons of the American Revolution Chapter, CAESAR, supporting Burke, Caldwell and McDowell counties will host an 18th Century Historical Speaker event on March 20.

The word "charcuterie" refers to a pork butcher shop. A charcutier in France is a butcher. Many reports trace the advent of charcuterie to 15th-century France, where local guilds began to regulate ...

Night - Mostly clear. Winds from WSW to SW at 8 mph (12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 38 °F (3.3 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C) and a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds ...

Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No Sorcerer - Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey Thomas W Hodgkinson - There Was No Sorcerer Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No ...

France’s culture ministry announced the appointment ... Hervieu-Léger has tackled Molière and the 18th-century comic playwrights Pierre de Marivaux and Carlo Goldoni. He has also overseen ...

The dawn of cinema in the previous century brought with it on the big screen some remarkable stories about love, the most significant human emotion. The task of adding more gems to that beautiful ...