When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

The origin of delicious French fries is as murky and uncertain as any beloved, centuries-old recipe. But Belgium claims to be the birthplace of fried potatoes and wants UNESCO to recognize French ...

Senegal and Chad are in turn asking French soldiers to leave their territory, as they seek other forms of military cooperation with Paris. “A slap in the face for Paris”; “France no longer understands ...

When did Maria Theresa come to power? Ascending the Habsburg throne in 1740, at 23 years old, Maria Theresa assumed rule at a perilous moment for her empire. The state’s coffers were empty and its ...

Patriarch Kirill is speeding up procedures to achieve the canonisation of the most victorious commander in Russian history by ...

French military authorities have ... Yuri Butusov claimed that up to 1,700 soldiers from the unit had deserted, including 50 who left during training in France. Butusov described the brigade ...

A handful of French military veterans gave training to around 20 Senegalese officers in November. The officers who received the training are active in a range of services, from the gendarmerie to ...

Barracks believed built by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War between ... archaeologists first took to the area to see if 18th century maps and period documents referencing the ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the ...

A new exhibition in London traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with the card designs ...

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