Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

This book belongs to a contemporary genre—Robb calls it “slow history”— in which authors travel around on foot or by old-fashioned conveyance and recount tales about the history of the spots they ...

Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the Europe At Large column. PARIS — France is suffering from an acute dose of commemoritis. The French spend an inordinate amount of time and ...

In an editorial last Saturday the conservative Le Figaro described France as “an airplane without wings or a pilot, ...

A history of France, newly available in English, has shocked some readers by what it omits, as much as what it includes. Patrick Boucheron, a French specialist of medieval Italian history, organized ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has resisted calls to take down statues with links to colonialism and slavery, vowing not to erase history. For activists, the monuments are a symbol of France’s ...

It sounds like the plot of a heist movie. On October 19, priceless items of jewelry and royal regalia were stolen, in broad ...

Investigating the archive in all its malleable reinvention is at the core of this year’s Rencontres d’Arles festival, held in historic churches and sites across the city. A projection of Nan Goldin's ...

The robbers used explosives to gain entry to a precious-metal company in Lyon, French officials said. The police recovered ...