France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

Despite France’s salt mines, French royalty began taxing salt in the 1200s as a way to finance war. The tax, called “gabelle,” remained in place for centuries.

Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic crisis. A rapidly growing population had outpaced the food supply. A severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread ...

Perhaps nothing was more decadent about aristocrats before the French Revolution than their over-the-top meals; the things French aristocrats ate even make modern Americans looks like humble cuisine ...

In fact, most people executed during the French Revolution – and particularly in its perceived bloodiest era, the nine-month “Reign of Terror” between autumn 1793 and summer 1794 – were ...

The French flag, along with the American flag and the flag of the District of Columbia, is seen with the U.S. Capitol in the distance in advance of French President Emmanuel Macron's Washington ...

As revolution raged in the 1790s, French scientists replaced a chaotic system of weights and measures with an unified way to calibrate and calculate. HISTORY MAGAZINE ...

With French President & Mme Albert Lebrun, last week French Premier & Mme Leon Blum went one evening to Paris' now splendidly refurnished Opera to hear a concert by the London ...

France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines. ... there may actually be more people who can claim to be part of the French aristocracy today than before the French Revolution.