It was early in 1292, most likely during Lent. Two ships rounding the Brittany coast anchored at the small islet of Quéménès.

In 1870, France went to war with a smaller, seemingly inferior power — Prussia. Yet what followed was one of the most ...

PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron was on Thursday searching for his sixth prime minister in under two years, ...

While France has a long history of hefty overspending, economists say political turmoil – which has stalled policymaking – is ...

This book belongs to a contemporary genre—Robb calls it “slow history”— in which authors travel around on foot or by old-fashioned conveyance and recount tales about the history of the spots they ...

Last Friday, France was again the stage for an act of Islamist terrorism. In the northern city of Arras, a young man of Chechen origin named Mohammed Mogouchkov confronted a group of professors ...

Within minutes of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s resignation, France has been hit with a major economic turmoil.On Monday ...

France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned yesterday, hours after Lecornu announced his ...