French Revolution

Versailles reopens room that saw birth of French democracy

Podcast: training French Imams, funding women's startups, journalist of the Revolution

Macron's covert change of blue to tricolour French flag 'echoes heroic past'

Paris Perspective #3: 'Parisian Exceptionalism' 150 years after the Commune - John Horne

Silk shoe of Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, goes to auction in Versailles

Push to move gay poets Rimbaud, Verlaine to Panthéon meets opposition

France's muted Bastille Day celebration pays tribute to health workers

Remains of hundreds of guillotined French Revolution figures found in chapel walls

The Sound Kitchen: Iraq's first prime minister in six months

Podcast: Saffron on the rooftops, Paris climate resilience, how French Catholic Church lost its property

Opera last heard by Louis XVI before he lost his head to be staged in Versailles

Napoleon Bonapart-time impersonator needed for island where he died

Henri d’Orléans, pretender to French throne, dies

Marie-Antoinette's pendant sells for 18 times estimated price

Ancient writing and old plumbing

Left leaders shocked by Air France arrests, why saga is mirror of French Revolution

French replica ship Hermione arrives to fanfare in Yorktown, USA

French press review 20 November 2014

Sade's 120 Days of Sodom to return to France after two centuries' adventures

Working French guillotine expected to fetch thousands at auction