A connoisseur of 18th-century French furniture fooled buyers into purchasing chairs with fake royal pedigrees, authorities ...

The day the 16th arrondissement of Paris refused to be the 13th because of a popular expression Paris wasn't built in a day, and has grown over the years, as shown by its various arrondissements. And ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who ...

The tender family portrait had been wrongly attributed to a male painter of the Northern Renaissance.

Archaeologists in northern France have discovered a vast Bronze and Iron Age settlement that may once have been a regional ...

Gérard Depardieu once seemed larger than France itself. With his hulking frame, crooked nose, and volcanic charisma, he ...

Notably, a very faded painting of the crucifixion scene with Jesus on the cross was also uncovered, the image of his crown of thorns sticking out from an orange and yellow backdrop. The figure of ...

Nuit des Musées celebrates art and culture once again this Saturday, May 17. In Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the Yvelines ...

Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at ...

From colourful old towns to sleek modern skylines, this gallery showcases the world’s most beautiful cities, celebrated for their natural beauty, awe-inspiring architecture, iconic landmarks and rich ...

Several medieval chronicles tell of Björn Ironside, a Viking king who ruled in Sweden and Norway in the ninth century C.E., ...

PARIS (AP) — Substitutes Malick Fofana and Georges Mikautadze played key roles in helping Lyon to rally past Le Havre 4-2 in the French league on Sunday. Mikautadze, who joined Lyon from Metz last ...