Explore what was the Louisiana Purchase. Check how this historic land deal doubled the US, its significant history, the vast ...

News about Napoleon I, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

A slow, thoughtful guide to art and literature through travel in Paris, from storied cafés and iconic bookstores to museums, ...

Natasha Sumkina writes originally from Saint Petersburg and now based in the Basque Country, I began learning about wine to change my life. And it did. In just five years, I’ve earned my DipWSET, ...

Columnist Pat Beall writes about a horror movie come to life: the story of “Alligator Alcatraz,” the slapped-together ...

Helen Rappaport’s “The Rebel Romanov” tells the story of Julie of Saxe-Coburg (1781-1860). Born in impecunious obscurity in Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, one of those tiny German states whose “most reliable ...

Paris is split into two halves – the Right and Left banks – by the storied Seine River. The city is further broken into 20 numbered arrondissements (or neighborhoods), which twirl clockwise ...

Belair is not actually a prince but a count and, unlike many once-titled post-revolutionary Frenchmen, is supremely conscious of it. I caught up with him in late April when he was in London ...

After US strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran, social media has been flooded with memes about a world war starting.

1916: First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men. 1920: French tennis superstar Suzanne Lenglen beats Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-0 to win the ...

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

An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of the battle, despite his accent.