The clasped hands of French and German leaders have long embodied the spirit of European unity. Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich ...

Literally just a few kilometers from Germany, and situated in the heart of France’s Alsace region, is the stunningly ...

A French parliamentary committee unanimously approved a bill this week to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, more than 130 years after he was framed for treason in one of the defining ...

It all started, bizarrely, around 700 miles away - with the Franco-Prussian War. France declared war on Prussia in July 1870 - primarily in an attempt to reassert its dominant position in ...

In the 1870s, Otto von Bismarck—worried that France would reconstitute itself as a monarchy after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War—“engineered crises” to “spook French elites and ...

During the Franco-Prussian War and the ensuing civil war, many artists fled to other French cities or London. However, artists Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, and a few others stayed ...

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” is an account of the city’s Terrible Year and its impact on the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.

Most dates back to the world wars but shells are still found from the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, noted Charlotte Nihart of Robin des Bois (Robin Hood), an association that has charted unexploded ...

A French environmental group has found artillery shells dating back to World Wars I and II and even the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 in a lake in eastern France. Water samples from Gerardmer in the ...

As the Franco-Prussian War commenced, Monet decamped to London, where he sat out the hostilities, palette in hand. Upon his return to France, he and his colleagues worked outdoors, often setting ...

Tracking the French Impressionists, at Work and at War. Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.