But from the French Revolution onwards, a piecemeal emancipation allowed wealthy Jewish merchants, industrialists and bankers ...

Like time travel machines, period dramas do a great job of yanking us from the present and throwing us into previous decades ...

By the end of the 19th century ... cuisine prepared by French-trained chefs and conversed over dinner in German, French, or Italian. It was the far less wealthy petty nobility who paved the ...

Unlike trees—those divas forever celebrated for their lofty nobility and sentinel grace ... the landscape architect of the mid-18th century. My neighbor’s gardener, favoring a greater ...

In the 18th century ... During the Crusades (12th century), fans were introduced more widely into Europe. Initially rigid and feathered, they became popular with nobility like Elizabeth I, who owned ...

The late 18th century saw the emergence ... conquests of the early 19th century was the old regime undermined and a comprehensive process of political modernisation set in motion. Reforms in the ...

After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the ...

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

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AFP becomes one of the main source for international news. We've got various news from around the world. I can say that AFP news content is diverse and credible, and they can fit with the ...