France celebrated its biggest holiday Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the ...

France is marking its biggest national holiday, Bastille Day, with a spectacular display of military might and national pride ...

A spirit of defiance and a mysterious culture endure on the French island of Corsica, intertwined with the timeless beauty of ...

The French Revolution (1789-1799) was one of the most transformative events in world history, altering the course of Europe and influencing political ideologies globally. Its origins can be traced to ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

The ninth of November, 1799—the 18th of Brumaire in the calendar of the French Revolution—is often remembered as the day the Revolution ended. Napoleon Bonaparte, conqueror of Italy and ...

The French Revolution broke out with the fall of the Bastille when Napoleon was nearly 20; he eagerly embraced the Enlightenment ideas it at least initially represented.

US president Donald Trump came over all French this weekend, tweeting 'He who saves his Country does not violate any Law', a quote most commonly attributed to French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

In 1790, just after the French Revolution, the new government expropriated all of the Church’s property. That massive theft was moderated in 1801 with a concordat between Napoleon and the Holy See.