Tucked away in southern France, right along the Atlantic coast, is France’s 9th biggest city and the capital of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region. Welcome to Bordeaux! I’ll be honest, here. I love love ...

Aleppo and Edinburgh became unlikely partners, connecting worlds through trade, science and the exchange of ideas ...

Physics World corresponding editor Isabelle Dumé reports from a Paris symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of the ...

Louis-Sébastien Mercier, dramatist and author of the early science fiction novel L’an 2440, claimed that only a small ...

Set sail on the Potomac or wander the cobblestone streets of Old Town while learning of the country’s history.

He was so fascinated by these fossils that he commissioned a table to be made that featured an array of coprolites inlaid in ...

Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution will explore an alternate-history timeline take on revolutionary France, all based on one ...

Inspired by the American and French revolutions, the United Irishmen wanted a secular republic that separated church from ...

If you live in an area with a history as rich as Winchester's, you never know what you'll find while digging in the yard — ...

On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially ... In France, where massive population growth throughout the ...

The word “salon” has always conjured 18th-century France and the philosophes ... to toss around the ideas that would become the French Revolution. We were almost there. Yes, this was Montreal ...

Carrying his metaphor further, his reading of the 18th-century events is that the ... The Glorious French Revolution (or: why sometimes it takes a guillotine to get anything done) continues ...