In 1793, the French Revolution was in full swing. Royal sympathizers—nobles, military officers, clergy, and other aristocrats ... But at the turn of the century, things started going downhill.

This Rue de Rivoli home in the heart of Paris’s 1st Arrondissement comes with some serious design cachet: For one, it was one of the first major projects of notable French interior designer ...

Christian Agostino von Hassell lost a trove of family heirlooms intertwined with European history when he encountered New York’s unforgiving laws governing storage ...

Aside from royalty and the aristocracy, only one-third ... and they continued their purification through the 18th Century," he said. In short, French in France changed, while in Quebec it stayed ...

This rare 18th-century jewel ... believe it was crafted for royalty or a high-ranking aristocrat during the decade leading up ...

New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait by French painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo. Recently uncovered documents ...

inventories and police records), objects that once belonged to 18th-century French artists, long concealed from historical view. As the authors explain, we think about artists in such a ...

The archivist gave him permission to open the letters, all addressed to 18th-century French sailors from their loved ones and seized by Great Britain's Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War (1756 ...