President Emmanuel Macron named Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister on Thursday, hoping the Brexit negotiator and ...

In 1788, while still a student in Rome ... like Lethière, a Creole. (In France, anybody born in the French colonies who was ...

Everyone knows that Keanu Reeves is one of the nicest guys in Hollywood, but he is also one of the most bankable stars in Tinseltown. The actor has appeared in some of the most epic action movies ...

Marie Antoinette was only 14 years old when she moved to France to marry the future King Louis XVI. She was crowned in 1774 ...

In 1788, Jones was offered a command in the Russian ... Jones later wrote Jefferson, then minister to France, that despite the job, he had not “forsaken” America. He wrote: “I can never ...

in the Cote-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France, 1788. From the painting by Francois Flamenc. Royalist rebels invited the British to occupy the strategic port of Toulon and in ...

Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, unbending temperament was not ideal for diplomacy, and his ...

Timantti, the Finnish word for diamond, is the name of Maya Romanoff’s sparkling woven-fabric wallcovering, now in eight ...

Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic crisis. A rapidly growing population had outpaced the food supply. A severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread ...

In Scotland's case, this includes migration ‘exoduses’ following the exile of the Catholic James II and VII to France, the Protestant William II and III's accession to the British thrones in 1689 and ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration ... To avoid becoming embroiled in the war between Great Britain and France, he ...