The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

Woven into the fabric of modern-day streets, the aging electrical substations of Saigon stand as quiet witnesses to a ...

Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune had considered the French language to be “a spoil of war”. The End of an Era After the French put an end to their military presence and diminished their ...

Three French women have won the title since 1946, the last being Mary Pierce, in 2000. When tennis ushered in the Open Era in 1968, the French Open became the first Grand Slam tournament to ...