On Aug. 21, 1789, just a month after the storming of the Bastille that launched the French Revolution, France’s new governing ...

Graham Robb writes history on two wheels and in four dimensions. Almost 30,000 miles of “gentle cycling for weeks on end” have fed his delightfully off-center books about the French past and the ...

Amelie Serafon at the Westervelt Collection at the Allis Art Museum From Solomon Juneau to Jean Nicolet, there are many French names we recognize in Milwaukee. Anne Leplae and Mary Emory of the ...

A “counter-monument” unveiled last week in the city of Nancy invites viewers to reflect on a dark chapter in French history and acknowledge traumas that have long been silenced. Bringing a fresh ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Robert Zaretsky teaches at the University of Houston. His latest book is “Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.” In the month between French President Emmanuel Macron’s ...

A history of France, newly available in English, has shocked some readers by what it omits, as much as what it includes. Patrick Boucheron, a French specialist of medieval Italian history, organized ...

French Guiana’s January carnival is normally a fun and festive occasion. But this year, a young man was severely beaten by ten other teenagers during the procession, marring the celebrations. The ...

Installation view of ‘Louis Style: French Frames, 1610–1792’ (courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles) Walk into a gallery of 17th- or 18th-century French paintings and prepare to be blinded by the ...