Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting ...

This stunning Parisian museum may not be as famous as the Louvre, but it's brimming with history. Visit for an authentic ...

He helped negotiate — with John Adams and Ben Franklin — the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which formally secured recognition of American independence from the British crown and in the eyes of the ...

Assassin's Creedy Unity was rightly lambasted for the rough state it launched in, but ten years later it deserves a ...

Paris is split into two halves – the Right ... or the site of the infamous storming of the Bastille in 1789. Today, the Opéra Bastille, rises from the ashes of this historic locale and has ...

You might even learn a historical fact or two about the city’s famous legends and architectural icons. From where to stay to ...

After the revolution of 1789, French citizens sought uniform weights and measures throughout the nation. The National Assembly and subsequent national governments commissioned the Paris Academy of ...

How did the Huguenots of Paris survive, and even prosper, in the eighteenth century when the majority Catholic population was notorious for its hostility to Protestantism? Why, by the end of the Old ...

The course for the marathon and race walking at the Paris Olympics draws inspiration from the famed Women's March of 1789, when nearly 7,000 Parisian women marched through Paris Versailles to bring ...

which was famously stormed in 1789 during the French Revolution. Feeling inspired by Emily in Paris and want to try ice skating in a romantic Parisian setting at Christmas? Head to the La Cour ...

Wiles, the next White House chief of staff, said Donald Trump would move quickly to reinstate orders from his first term that ...