The statue of French statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert is pictured in front of the French National Assembly in Paris Wednesday June 10, 2020. Colbert has been a prominent minister under King Louis XIV, ...

The "Salle Ovale" of the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF) The Richelieu-Louvois Library before its renovation in Paris in 2016. (Photo by FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP) France will soon vote for its ...

STRASBOURG, France – Monuments are the emotional backbone of France. That accounts for the despair over a blaze that killed no one, yet seared the collective soul. It is the power Notre Dame had — ...

The chapel’s whitewashed walls are peeling, its tarp-covered floors spattered with bird droppings, and its centuries-old front door has been stolen. But Didier Besnier, mayor of Rochegude, in ...

France is commissioning a new monument memorializing the victims of slavery—and it’s asking the public for ideas. Last week, the country’s ministry of culture launched an open call for the design and ...

The list of the 250 crumbling French monuments set to benefit from the country's new special edition lottery and scratchcard game has been revealed. The new "heritage lottery" set to launch in ...

Archaeologists say they have discovered an "unprecedented" monument in France. They outlined the discovery on the French-language site Inrap. That is the French National Institute for Preventive ...

PARIS — Even though it was one of France’s most iconic sites, Notre-Dame cathedral suffered years of neglect and struggled to find the millions it needed for urgent renovations before it was ravaged ...

The first Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft has been named as a historical monument, France's culture minister said Monday. "This plane embodies France's innovation and industrial strength in the ...

STRASBOURG, France Monuments are the emotional backbone of France. That accounts for the despair over a blaze that killed no one, yet seared the collective soul. It is the power Notre Dame had still ...

PARIS (AP) — Vandals have defaced a monument celebrating the abolition of slavery in southern France, in an apparent response to growing anger over entrenched racism and calls for the removal of ...

PARIS (AP) — Vandals have defaced a monument celebrating the abolition of slavery in southern France, in an apparent response to growing anger over entrenched racism and calls for the removal of ...