Marcel-Cerdan Sports Palace was not built for a player like Victor Wembanyama. Last season, when Wembanyama played his home games in Levallois-Perret, a northwestern suburb of Paris, he had to duck ...

Terrence G Peterson's book explores how 'pacifying' Algerian society became a focus of the French campaign against ...

Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...

Part of the Ancien Régime’s fall from grace stemmed from the way Parisians communicated amongst themselves, according to ...

Marie Antoinette has been portrayed as the spendthrift wife who meddled in the political affairs of her weak-willed husband, Louis XVI. But she was also a devoted mother to her four ...

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For the past 162 years, France has been trying to digest the French Revolution which other nations have assimilated with less difficulty. If the decay of pre-Revolutionary France had been as deep as ...