Treasures spanning thousands of years of Paris history will get a fresh airing in the city from next week, with pistols from the French revolution showcased alongside a shoe thought to have been lost ...

Paris is a city deeply entrenched in our collective world culture. Some feel it’s a city of romance. Others look at its incredible impact on Western history, citing The French Revolution as a major ...

The museum Carnavalet showcases Paris' history including this 1848 painting by Eugéne Hagnauer. A recent survey suggests that about 80% of visitors to Paris come to see the museums and monuments, ...

Many of these Paris landmarks are entire destinations within themselves and could take anywhere from a half day to a full day ...

Think Paris, and the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Élysées and haute couture come to mind. But the City of Light also is rich in African-American history. Keeping this history alive are tour companies that ...

The police thought they were on the trail of sophisticated art thieves. The Belgian adventurer Honoré Joseph Géry Pieret had sold a Paris newspaper an Iberian statuette that he had stolen from the ...

PARIS – Ange-Jacques Gabriel lived for 83 years, born here during the reign of Louis XIV and departing this Earth with France in the midst of so much economic and social crisis that revolution would ...

Train 2522 is a hulking figure of rusting black metal, echoing back to its heyday when the train hauled tons of coal throughout the state. For more than half a century, children played on the train at ...