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What Happened to France After Napoleon

This video explores the fate of France after the fall of Napoleon in 1815. We trace the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, ...

Louvre heist: the turbulent history of the stolen royal jewels

Much of the immediate reaction to the audacious theft has concentrated on the Louvre’s security problems, rather than on the ...

The Louvre has a wild history of being robbed in broad daylight

One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso ...

France's strangest epidemic wasn't the bubonic plague. It was a dance.

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...
WRAL

The History of France, Told Through Food

The notion that the history of France unrolls at the table is not far-fetched, as this curious volume demonstrates. The landmark political and cultural events over about 2,000 years are often ...

This isn't the Louvre's first high-profile heist. Here's a history of earlier thefts

Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful ...
Wall Street Journal

Macron Appoints Youngest Prime Minister in France’s Modern History

PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed France’s 34-year-old education minister to helm a new government as prime minister, tapping a popular but relatively untested official to breathe ...