For centuries, a box of letters sat unopened in the National Archives in the U.K., until one curious historian recently unsealed and read them for the first time. What he found was a panoply of human ...

Imagine writing a letter to someone when it was one of the few forms of communication while you were apart – and that letter never made it to whom you intended. That is what happened to more than 100 ...

THE FRENCH GO HAND IN HAND, BUT A CAFE SAUVAGE IN THE BACK BAY. THAT MARRIAGE IS ON FULL DISPLAY FROM THE FOOD, THE AMBIANCE TO THE HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO RUN THE SHOW. WE WANTED TO HAVE A FRENCH ...

Scores of French love letters from the mid-18th century have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written. The letters – sent to French sailors by wives, siblings and parents – ...