"Marie Antoinette Style" at the V&A Museum, will unpack her dress and interiors, exploring how her style has echoed through ...

Statue with a secret; WW2 artifacts; 18th century medical texts; iconic sculpture. An elegant bronze statue reveals a risqué surprise. Religious reliefs owned by America’s first Black ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world's great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 ...

Potatoes were once so despised they were linked to leprosy. What changed? It's a tale of propaganda, survival, and ordinary ...

I love the cotton in pill bottles. It’s like finding a toy in the cereal box—that little puff is so soft and fun to make shapes out of! Sometimes I use it to give my cat a powdered wig like an ...

With more romantic rivalry than your average episode of “Love Island”, the plot of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” is ...

But, as McNeil points out, since a ban was temporarily placed on the importation of French silks in 1766 and they were later excluded from the Anglo-French free-trade treaty of 1786, the Macaroni men ...

Disney. This fresh take on the French queen’s life dazzles with Rococo-inspired costumes. Designer Karen Muller Serreau blends 18th-century opulence with youthful energy, crafting gowns with pastel ...

Many places in Michigan, including cities and streets, have French-origin names, a remnant of the state's past. Here's what to know.

Surprising century-old graffiti was found under the paint of an abandoned prison building in France. Antoine Lacaille French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research Building No ...

Detectorist discovers lost 18th-century ring ‘gleaming in sunshine’ on Norfolk walk. ... a French knight who was taken during the Hundred Years War, is the ancestor of the Gawdy family.