These days, French military pigeon number 193-529 is no longer needed to carry tiny messages during war-time communication ...

Honored for her poetry and her fiction, Ms. Howe "was truly one of the great poets of Boston and Cambridge," said poet and ...

When Hector Guimard's subway designs were unveiled in the early 1900s, the public rejected his Art Nouveau style. Soon, a new ...

The Hôtel Mezzara, a historic art nouveau residence in Paris, is set to become the Guimard Museum dedicated to its original architect: Hector Guimard.

In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive portraits between the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.

A new museum is coming to Paris, dedicated to the forgotten industrial designer Hector Guimard, who gave the city its famed ...

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris over the weekend, denouncing what they described as France’s drift toward war under the influence of NATO, the European Union, and President ...

About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I've known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of ...

Take the RER A train from Disneyland Paris to Charles de Gaulle – Étoile, then switch to Metro Line 6 to Bir-Hakeim. From there, it’s an 8-minute walk to the Eiffel Tower.

Stylish new Kickstarter board game pits saboteurs against occupiers in WW2 Paris Liberation pits authoritarian repressors against freedom-fighting spies in a gritty, tactical board game experience.

When the German Army reached the outskirts of Paris in March of 1918, they unraveled the biggest long-range siege gun ever produced. It was called the Paris Gun, weighed about 256 tons, and fired ...

The Louvre, home to the Mona Lisa and other iconic works of art in Paris, closed abruptly Monday as the museum's staff staged an impromptu strike over large crowds of tourists and understaffing.