A Getty exhibition illuminates the medieval cathedral’s role in European history and spotlights wondrous objects that survived...
France
About 3000 resisters, many under the age of 25, were tried in German military courts in France...
Most of these Americans left behind little evidence explaining why they took up arms for the French...
The journalist’s witty Paris Letters for the New Yorker helped establish Americans’ feelings of superiority over Europe....
The Anishinaabeg played an outsized role in world affairs. When a young George Washington approached the forks...
Charting the migration of the Lustucru figure through the French cultural imagination since the 17th century. By...
The relationship between power—or politics—and culture in French history is an ambivalent one, defined as much by...
Examining the connectedness and transnational interactions in the French spice project through the lens of Poivre’s informal...
Rasse des Noeux was a considerable bibliophile and man of letters. Why do we often sign and...
The often overlapping religious and diplomatic networks acted in concert to advance, for example, Protestant concerns. By...
The story behind the unusual form of a French chandelier made in the early 1800s. Introduction One...
Popular uprisings and resistance to taxation played havoc with the nine departments into which the National Assembly...
Louis XIV repeatedly reminded his commanders that 1693 had to be viewed as the year of decision....
Examining the formal and contextual heterogeneity, as well as the interpretive instability, of objects representing the 1686...
The Comte knew that there were both advantages and pitfalls in the use of secrecy in diplomacy....
After capturing Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusaders established several states in former Byzantine territory. Starting from...
The humiliating failure of the vaunted Maginot Line thrilled the vast majority of Germans, who adored their...
Versailles was the location of two seismic shifts in political culture. Ten million tourists flock to Versailles...
Jewish would-be artists began arriving in Paris in the decade before the First World War. Jews were...
It was an era and a culture that was both misogynist and racist, in which Jews from...
Traveling to Paris for a divorce became all the rage in the early 1920s. It was one...
The presence of Americans in Paris stretches back to the days of the American Revolution. For many...
Sentiment began to change in earnest in the wake of the decision to publicize the XYZ dispatches...
Pisistratus’s story as a tyrant of Athens offered a powerful script for interpreting Robespierre’s actions, and a...
Basville’s private correspondence reveals aspects of his character that deepen our understanding of the intendancy in the...
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” These words could have been reasonably spoken...
Dealing in false coinage was said to undermine the king’s prerogative to issue currency, illegally reproduce his...
Privilege was the beating heart of that society of orders known as Bourbon France. Privilege was the...
The politicization of the French peasantry before and during the Revolutionary period has been the topic of...
The concept of absolutism – the divine right to rule – dominated the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...