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After Marie Antoinette’s Death, Her Daughter Became Queen—For Just 20 Minutes
The fates of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution are widely known. What happened to their ...
The new Sun King
Trump’s rococo Oval Office decorations are old-fashioned, just not for Americans.
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What England Means to France
THE traditional conception of England among average Frenchmen is expressed in the words "perfidious Albion." Some years ago I made an effort to run down the source of the term. I failed. One meets it ...
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200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history’s greatest heists – and Haitians want reparations
The story begins with the Haitian Revolution. France instituted slavery in the ... On April 17, 1825, Charles X, brother to Louis XVIII and the new French king, performed a sudden about-face. Charles ...