Christofle, A brilliant story” is the first comprehensive retrospective on the French silversmith and runs until April 20 at ...
Of all Napoleon’s marshals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte’s career was the most unusual. As a young soldier in the French ...
Rebel. Celebrity. Hero. Traitor. Corsican revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli was one of Europe’s most famous and divisive ...
The desire to be vindicated is as old as history itself because history cannot help but create winners and losers; history ...
Gladiator II 'is hitting theaters, but what about 'Gladiator III'? We're going to explore what Ridley Scott might have in ...
There isn’t a Hollywood director with a sense of scale, scope, and range quite like Ridley Scott.
After a standoff triggered by Vice President Sara Duterte’s attempt to keep her detained chief of staff Zuleika Lopez from ...
He has also been sued by France’s National Institute of Appellations ... including hand-illustrated viticulture guides from 1857 commissioned by Napoleon III, 300-year-old leather books ...
With royal figures occupying so much space in history and culture, it makes sense that many monarchs have felt haunted in the ancient palaces and castles they inhabit.
Not unlike many of the Renaissance families of Italy, the Borgias were power hungry, corrupt, and self-indulgent. But their dynasty produced two popes—are they worthy of this notorious legacy?
L.Q.C. Lamar, now Secretary of the Interior, returned from Europe, where he had interviewed in Europe Henry John Temple, (Lord Palmerston,) then Premier, and also Napoleon III, of France ...
OperaCréole and M.S. Rau partnered November 14 to celebrate and share a preview of the upcoming opera “Morgiane.” Written by composer Edmond Dédé, the opera is “the earliest extant grand opera ...