Texas has been a land under control of many different flags in its long history. From the early Native American tribes to the European colonial powers to the United States, each era has left an impact ...

A love for music appears to run in Taylor Swift's family — the royal family that is. The 34-year-old international pop star is related to King Louis XIV, the French monarch who built the Palace of ...

VERSAILLES, France — In curator Béatrix Saule’s extensive exhibition Le Roi Est Mort (“The King Is Dead”), the Palace of Versailles is presenting a shaggy-dog narrative about the death of Louis XIV.

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Beautiful, haughty, well bred and, by the author's account, "a superlative lover," Athénaïs de Montespan was a shoo-in for the role of official mistress to King Louis XIV. Despite being married, she ...

Lully’s ‘Idylle sur la Paix’ and Charpentier’s ‘La fête de Rueil’ formed a delightful double bill Saturday at Jordan Hall In the summer of 1685, France was ready to celebrate. The previous year, Sun ...

A few months later Robert LaSalle would lead his motley band of Frenchmen and Indians in their canoe flotilla on their epic journey down the Mississippi to New Orleans, where he proclaimed “in the ...

The French are famous for their supposedly relaxed attitudes toward sex, in contrast to our supposedly puritanical ones. And no one is fonder of this cliché than the French themselves, as was apparent ...

While Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter is on hold, nothing, it seems, can stop the Tesla boss from trolling his way to viral social media fame. On May 15, Musk sent a portion of his 93.6 ...