Both seasons of the series Marie Antoinette are available to watch on BBC iPlayer - and the "addictive" period drama has been ...

Pope Leo XIV is signalling his commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse. He has appointed a French ...

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

Bastille Day is France’s national holiday and is celebrated every year on July 14th. The day commemorates a significant event in French history – the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789. The event ...

Most of the decor at Houston’s newest hotel isn’t new. The velvet sofas, canopy beds, and oil paintings at the Marlene are ...

France: Bastille Day and Trump’s idée inspirée The oldest ... On July 14, 1789, French insurgents stormed the Bastille, which housed prisoners of Louis XVI’s government. Revolutionaries commenced a ...

The second revolution that engulfed France over the course of 1792 reached its climax in December, with an astonishing, world-changing spectacle, which held all the eyes of Europe spellbound ...

British actor Louis Cunningham returns to Marie Antoinette season 2 as Louis XVI, the young ruler of France. Introduced in the series as a teenage Dauphin who struggled to build a relationship ...

Louis XVI: [shouting] “You’re gambling with the lives of millions. You’re gambling with another Seven Years’ War. What you’re doing is very disrespectful to France. Your people are dying.

Before dying, his father made a decision that may have saved his son’s life: after his wife contracted smallpox, he ordered that Louis Philippe and his younger sister, Bathilde, be inoculated by the ...

The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, is one of the French Revolution’s most iconic moments. That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution. An ...

Louis XVI (played by Louis Cunningham): Season 1 introduces Louis XVI as a young man stifled by his own self-doubts and shyness – he prefers to keep to himself, let alone entertain the idea of ...