Marie Antoinette—played by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's stunning new film—used her distinctive personal style to defy the ...

Unfortunately your very brave son was hit on his way back to our own lines after having carried out all that they intended to ...

Pope Leo XIV is signalling his commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse. He has appointed a French ...

Wayne Osmond, 73. A singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-album-selling family act The Osmonds, who were known ...

The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history. Yet it still ...

The second revolution that engulfed France over the course of 1792 reached its climax in December, with an astonishing, world-changing spectacle, which held all the eyes of Europe spellbound ...

Before dying, his father made a decision that may have saved his son’s life: after his wife contracted smallpox, he ordered that Louis Philippe and his younger sister, Bathilde, be inoculated by the ...

And the machine that brought about Louis’ death would ultimately become just as iconic as the revolution’s act of mob violence. The guillotine’s story in France had begun just a few years prior.

When Louis XIV (who was also known as the Sun King) came to power, he became fond of hunting at Versailles just like his father. He loved the property so much that he chose to expand it in 1661 ...

Mélanie Laurent is Marie Antoinette and Guillaume Canet her husband Louis XVI in Italian director Gianluca Jodice ’s Le Déluge (The Flood), which opened the 77th edition of the Locarno Film ...

Her first husband, Francis II, made her queen of France. After his death at age 16, Mary returned to Scotland. Her second husband, Lord Darnley, would strengthen her claim to the English throne.

"It's like having Louis XVI locking himself away in Versailles," she said, referring to the king guillotined in 1793 during the French Revolution. She said: If (Macron) doesn't respect the result of ...