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 ...

Notre Dame has gone through a lot in its 856 years. It has endured ill-advised remodeling, revolutionary ransacking and pollution-induced decay. Hitler once had it slated for demolition. On Monday ...

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 ...

French presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen have attacked each other at the start of their run-off campaigns, after coming first and second respectively in the initial vote ...

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.

French Artist Looks for Beauty in Ruins. Share full article. A still from Cyprien Gaillard's video "Pruitt Igoe Falls," inspired by a housing complex in Missouri that was demolished in 1972.

Vacationers in northwest France are being warned to stay away from beaches, which are growing a bumper crop of a seaweed that releases a potentially toxic gas. The culprit: Up-stream releases of ...

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

Called an "exceptional discovery" by the French culture ministry, the 7,000sq m (75,000 sq ft) find in Vienne, a small town to the south of Lyon, includes luxury house and public buildings.

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.