JAMES FICHTER is Associate Professor of European and American Studies at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on maritime history, the revolutionary Atlantic, and World War I. Fichter ...

Egypt's state grains buyer Mostakbal Misr agreed in April to buy around 180,000 metric tons of French wheat from two top European traders, trading sources said, in a sign of growing acceptance of ...

French Foreign Minister Edgar Faure received today a delegation of leading French Jews, headed by Daniel Mayer, chairman of the French National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee, who ...

Born in Cayenne, French Guiana, to an emancipated slave mother, Thomas Ismaÿl Urbain became one of France’s most influential figures during its Second Empire. An adviser to Napoleon III and the ...