It’s been 25 years since disgraced businessman and fugitive Christopher Skase succumbed to cancer in Mallorca. But parts of his estate still occasionally crop up in Melbourne’s auction houses, no ...

King Louis XIV, known as the "Sun King," was likely the most odoriferous monarch in French history. Suffering from severe skin diseases and being a glutton for meat, his sweat odor was reportedly ...

But what's more striking is the sheer sense of impunity that Trump telegraphs, constantly, with the "je suis l'état" flare of a Louis XIV -- complete (soon) with Trump's Versailles. (Separately, Trump ...

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Thieves have stolen priceless jewels belonging to Napoleon from the Louvre—evoking a 1792 heist whose dramatic twists ultimately gave us the Hope Diamond. Louis XV’s Order of the Golden Fleece was one ...

French painter Hyacinthe Rigaud paints a portrait of then-French King Louis XIV in 1701. Behind the lavish depiction of the king, his gout-swollen feet remain hidden. /Courtesy of the Louvre Museum, ...

ST. LOUIS- The St. Louis region is reacting to the stunning news out of the Vatican where for the first time, an American-born Cardinal has been elected as Pope. Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert ...

In French history, it was a common expectation that monarchs, like King Louis XIV, maintained intriguing love lives. Louis, known for his insatiable desires, fathered over a dozen illegitimate ...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis residents have been enjoying freshly cut lettuce in the Grove and are seeing the concept in action as a new vertical farm-to-table, quick-serve salad restaurant opened in March.