Baroque master Bernini came to Paris with a radical vision for the Louvre and left with a bruised ego after a snub from Louis ...

The core of the idea is that a “healthy” secularism is one in which church and state are separate, but in which religious ...

Twenty-three years later she faced an enormous guillotine. As she climbed the scaffold, she accidentally stepped on her ...

France stumbled into crisis in the late 1780s: bread shortages, crushing debt, an unfair tax system, and the spread of Enlightenment ideas all eroded the monarchy’s legitimacy. This video examines ...

This weekend, a new exhibition, Marie Antoinette Style, opens at the V&A in South Kensington and explores how history has ...

A protester draped in an Armenian flag rallies outside the Azerbaijani Consulate General offices in protest over the conflict ...

Once the most despised woman in Europe, Marie Antoinette was vilified as a libertine, a conspirator and a spendthrift – then publicly executed. Now an exhibition explores her story.

The V&A’s exhibition – the first in the UK solely devoted to her – brings together iconic pieces worn, and inspired, by Marie ...

From her jewels and shoes to modern interpretations of her extravagant gowns, a new exhibition exploring the style of France's doomed 18th century queen Marie Antoinette opens in London this week. On ...

From her dazzling jewels and silk footwear to modern interpretations of her extravagant gowns, a new exhibition exploring the style of France's doomed 18th century queen Marie Antoinette opens in ...