A massive exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of Jacques Louis-David, whose paintings chronicled the French Revolution and Napoleonic era in real time, opened at the Louvre in Paris.

The brazen robbery on Sunday has put a spotlight on security protocols in the sprawling museum, which have been tested over ...

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat is a deceptively simple image of a real-life murder. But a closer look at the iconic ...

In each era of globalisation since the mid-17th century, a single country has sought to be the clear world leader – shaping ...

Marie Antoinette had four children, but tragedy and the French Revolution tore the queen apart from her offspring.

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France and Europe must out-innovate themselves quickly out of uncomfortable choices, the general said at a presentation of ...

The secret meetings took place in December 1775 at Carpenters' Hall and helped lead to a critical supply of ammunitions and ...

Much of the immediate reaction to the audacious theft has concentrated on the Louvre’s security problems, rather than on the ...

The exhibition at the Paris museum brings together around a hundred works, paintings and drawings, including some on loan ...

A new book by Historian Julia Gaffield analyzes the mixed legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti's first head of state post ...

Over the centuries, European governments have driven talented workers out of their countries. That unfortunate legacy ...