When it comes to Mexican presidents, Benito Juárez is pretty difficult to beat in terms of achievements and legacy.

While the heroes of the War of Independence fought for freedom, there were Greek politicians who betrayed them for money and ...

French and Haitian revolutions, the wars of independence in Spanish America, the ‘nationalist’ – although Israel forcefully rejects the use of this term – uprisings in Europe in the 1830s and the ...

We often forget that we are the luckiest generation of photographers. Our cameras are quick, smaller, portable, and allow us ...

Reforms in the states of the French-occupied Confederation of the Rhine and a new ... Prussia and Austria rejected the introduction of constitutions for their sovereign territories until 1848. Only in ...

There is no evidence that France has demanded the U.S. pay $150 trillion in interest for French loans during America’s War of ...

The first thing to say about laissez-faire liberalism is that it arose in Europe, specifically in Western Christendom. This ...

With his hulking frame, crooked nose, and volcanic charisma, Gérard Depardieu reigned over cinema for half a century — a ...

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution ...

Fernand Léger, the French artist known for his eccentric, riotously colourful paintings that drew on modernist schools such as cubism and Surrealism, exerted an outsize and wide-ranging influence on ...

Starring Anamaria Vartolomei and Matt Dillon, this French drama chronicles the life of the actress Maria Schneider after her traumatic experience on the set of “Last Tango in Paris.” ...