Marble House was Alva Vanderbilt's 39th birthday present. She later became a leader in the women's suffrage movement.

From its foundation in the 10th century to the decline of its influence in the early 12th, a program of reform and a renewal ...

Napoleon commissioned the sword, filled with classical motifs, after being elected as consul for life by the senate in 1802.

Ridley Scott has a thing for Monpazier. After first filming "The Duelists," starring Harvey Keitel, in the southwestern ...

France's Dordogne region is loved by Brits, but has largely remained under the radar of American travelers.

Clair Dinhut's family home is no ordinary house: it's a 9th-century water mill in France, complete with original stone floors ...

LLM contributor Michael Edwards enjoys a food and wine odyssey through one of France's most beautiful and historic regions.

You have to be somebody who’s done this for a couple of decades to survive it.” Buxbaum Gordon stands by the bar room's ...

A few were even buried in France during the 14th century, when the papacy moved to the French border for political reasons. Most popes are buried in the grottoes underneath St. Peter’s, and since Pope ...

He plans to open new high-security prisons to house France’s top 100 kingpins, use video conferences for court appearances and limit inmates’ family contact. Police say prisoners run their drug ...

as well as private property unless the owner of the property gave clear permission that guns are allowed. The plaintiffs petitioned for a rehearing of the case en banc, but the Ninth Circuit denied ...

“Tel Shiqmona offers evidence that already in the 9th century BCE, purple dye was produced at an industrial scale. It was not just one individual dyeing a garment for a king.” The dye is ...