Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the ...

In the wake of the bloody French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Germaine de Staël kept the ideas of freedom alive at her ...

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Military vaccines and the oath of enlistment both serve to protect against threats, including diseases like polio and measles ...

(Miguel MEDINA/AFP/AFP) Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Thursday, ...

A pretender to the French throne has come forward as an underdog candidate to address the chaos within the nation's parliament.

The recent wave of youth-led protests across South Asia, particularly in Nepal, preceded by similar upheavals in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, characterized by increasing violence, looting, and vandalism ...

The grave of Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, was vandalised on Thursday, just hours before his induction into the country's Pantheon mausoleum of ...

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to continue the fight against the death penalty worldwide during a speech in homage to Robert Badinter, whose cenotaph was inaugurated at the Panthéon on ...

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On Oct. 21, Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former French president to walk through a prison gate to begin serving a ...

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