The French composer and conductor despised the staid and conservative and desired no less than a classical music revolution.

The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...

Symbol of the The Bavarian Illuminati secret society (1776-1785) members were from Freemasonry, accused of conspiracy, detail ...

In 1793, the jug was saved from destruction by the post-Revolution government in France ... a lurid chrysanthemum pot (1783) made by the French enameller Joseph Coteau. The Hong Kong Museum ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A court in Algeria on Thursday sentenced an award-winning French-Algerian writer to five years in prison over remarks that questioned the borders dividing Algeria from regional ...

in which he regularly critiques Algeria’s post-revolution leaders and the role of Islam in society. Under the imprint of the prestigious French publishing house Gallimard, he has published ten ...

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, ...

The Greek War of Independence that begun in 1821 is full of memorable events, most of them bloody battles and heroic feats.

Initially it was proposed to begin the revolution in Constantinople ... The text is influenced not only by the French Constitutions of 1793 and 1795, but also by the American Declaration of ...

A French court found her and eight other former European lawmakers guilty of embezzling public funds. The verdict is a hammer ...