Bordeaux has 57 subregions that produce high quality wines and are allowed to use the AOC designation on their labels. On the ...

1780 – The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor was published for the first time. It was the first Sunday newspaper in Britain.

Queen of Naples, Spain and the West Indies, and sister-in-law to Napoleon Bonaparte, she perished in Florence in 1845.

The tunnels are lined with carefully arranged skulls and bones, with plaques bearing inscriptions about life and death.

Thus goes the song, popularized by Bing Crosby, about what is universally known as “The City of Lights” and “The City of Love ...

and later crowned himself emperor as Napoleon III – seized on this when he reintroduced universal male suffrage after conservative elites had restricted the vote to the propertied. But there ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who ...

Following a new constitution that reduced the assembly’s power, and a plebiscite, Louis-Napoléon declared himself emperor Napoléon III in 1852 Louis-Napoleon, and thus the second empire was born.

The French leader is mulling sending troops to the Ukraine conflict, but his “little emperor” moment could turn into a ...

Butter. Just the sound of it gets the juices flowing. In your wildest dreams could you picture a world without it? Why, it’s unimaginable!. Okay, okay, so without it we’d all have smaller bottoms … ...

He added that the French Emperor Napoleon III requested from Said Pasha, the wali of Egypt, to supply him with a brigade of Sudanese soldiers (Egypt and Sudan were at the time one country ruled by ...