The Third Reich was collapsing, and Berlin had become a furnace of fire and ruin. But among the rubble, a desperate coalition ...

Berlin was a city of ghosts, and under its theaters and subways, the French SS were still fighting. Reduced to scattered ...

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” is an account of the city’s Terrible Year and its impact on the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco. By Christopher Benfey Christopher Benfey is the author ...

Bookshelf ‘Paris in Ruins’ Review: Romance Amid the Wreckage As an insurrection is ruthlessly suppressed, two Impressionist painters find their way to each other.

Sebastian Smee and his book “Paris in Ruins.” W. W. Norton/Amber Davis Tourlents You wouldn’t know it from their luminous canvases, featuring idyllic pastoral scenes and vignettes of urban life.

Ruins of Roman winery — at least 1,500 years old — found in French Alps. Look inside By Irene Wright. November 26, 2024 6: ...

The French poet Joachim du Bellay (1552-60) saw the ruins of Rome as symbolic of life and fate, popularising this concept across Europe with his poetic cycle Les Antiquités de Rome (1558).

Notre-Dame de Paris, a timeline | 1,000 years of grandeur, ruins and flames. Throughout its history, Notre-Dame has become a French symbol of both spiritual and cultural significance.

PARIS (TND) — A French pole vaulter's Olympic dreams were shattered when his private parts clipped the crossbar as he competed during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Anthony Ammirati, 21 ...