IT’S been 40 years since a French rider last won the Tour de France—when Bernard Hinault claimed the last of his five titles back in 1985. With race leader Tadej Pogačar poised to retain his title ...

Red is the final film in the critically acclaimed Three Colours trilogy, which explores the core values of the French ...

The poet, the opera, and the Terror: when art dares to confront the violence of power. How one artist portrays the French ...

Thousands of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a medieval fortress and prison, in Paris on 1789. The Bastille symbolised the ...

The Reign of Terror destroyed thousands of lives, but in the scientific community, Antoine Lavoisier's death was arguably the ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the hub of the Enlightenment. But the country was to be transformed and engulfed ...

The French Revolution, which took place between 1789 and 1799, is one of the most significant events in the world.

Read It From Thomas Carlyle’s gripping history to Charles Dickens’ enduring tragedy and the rise of literary superheroes, the ...

The French Revolution was not a forebear of American government, which should be clear to any sober student of history. The French Revolution—as opposed to the American Revolution—turned from ...

France celebrated Bastille Day on Monday, the holiday marking the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, a pivotal moment in ...

The storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789, is seen as a defining event in the French Revolution. But how does the ...