Garcia explained that the authors wanted to “show the overseas space for what it is in its own history, and not only from the moment France set foot there". Each map represents a layer of France's ...

Even though millions of French troops were manning the defensive Maginot Line in early 1940, Hitler's brilliant blitzkrieg strategy caught the Allies by surprise, and Germany occupied France ...

Colin Jones is also the author of the Longman Companion to the French Revolution and The Cultural Atlas of France. "Lavishly illustrated, filled with superb maps, this coffee-table survey of French ...

Consider the map on this page. You've seen it many times ... Sieur de Bienville starting in 1726. Decades later, both France ...

as the Allied forces attempted to break through the German front line in northern France, 1916. This interactive map shows the victories, defeats and painful stalemate, and how the lessons learned ...

The site of the first colony founded by Rome beyond Italian soil had few reminders of its former prestige - but that has ...

U.K. deal will likely draw attention to France, another European sovereign state with contested territories in the Indian Ocean region like Tromelin Island.

Al Jazeera looks at the US economy, demographics, geography and other indicators ahead of the November 5 elections.

Remembering Quincy Jones' career as a pioneering music executive who worked with everyone from Frank Sinatra to New Order to ...

A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and ...

Inside Bordeaux’s training complex a giant map shows every soccer club it has ever faced in European competition, including ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Air France KLM shares fell on Tuesday after Morgan Stanley cut its rating on the stock to 'underweight' ...