Leading Nice, the 5th-largest metropolitan area in France, the self-described 'Jew at heart' Christian Estrosi bucks ...

New books and a National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene play reclaim the poet-parachutist for an era marked by antisemitism and ...

The 'spy’ (or, more correctly, reconnaissance) aircraft must survive enemy fighters and anti-aircraft weapons, often relying ...

By that time many of Hitler’s designated enemies — artists, writers and leftists, a good proportion of whom were Jewish — had sought refuge in France but now found themselves trapped there. Across the ...

Converted bombers would roar a few hundred feet above the sea dropping depth charges and firing rockets; with over 120 Allied ...

In just six weeks in 1940, Germany crushed France, while the Vichy regime and Allies planned the first major American strike ...

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the ...

This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

In the wake of the bloody French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Germaine de Staël kept the ideas of freedom alive at her ...

In the run-up to the first round of the French elections in late April, one surprise was a surge of the “far left” (as described in the bourgeois media, and undoubtedly in some parts of the ...

A new biography deconstructs some of the most persistent myths around Gertrude Stein’s legacy.