Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

Steep streets, famous artists, and thriving nightlife helped to foster the mystique of Montmartre, Paris’s sprawling hilltop district and the red-hot center of Belle Époque bohemia. While ...

The 'breathtaking' antique found in an attic, which even has ties to the Royal Family, is set to go up for auction this month ...

But it was only at the end of the 18th century that the great French paleontologist and anatomist Georges Cuvier was able to demonstrate convincingly that extinctions were real. Much of Cuvier's ...

David Pullins, a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, argues that 18th-century French art has too often been viewed through the lens of the Académie Royale de ...