When it opened in 1962, the bar was a hangout for writers such as Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. It had lost some of its luster but is now being revived by ...

What Art Can Tell Us About Love, Nick Trend’s entertaining canter through art-historical romances, takes us from Jan Steen to ...

The Maison de Chateaubriand invites you to discover one of the first novels of Romantic literature, based on the impossible ...

Conservators at London's Courtauld Institute used x-ray and infrared images to reveal the previously unseen works ...

This powerful exhibition makes space for Hélène de Beauvoir to exist in the cultural consciousness apart from her more famous sister.

When "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered, 100 years ago, the term "horror film" didn't exist. "Spook melodrama," it was ...

The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...

Roche, who has made a name for himself with his work on iconic religious sites like Chartres cathedral in recent years, is ...

Impressive buildings and beautiful grounds await in the Loire Valley, Dordogne, and Alsace at these 8 beautiful French castles you can visit on your next trip to France.

Meanwhile, still in Paris, there's an announcement that Brits (and other non-EU citizens) will be charged a higher entrance ...

A centuries-old harbor in France has long inspired painters such as Claude Monet and Eugène Boudin. Today, artists still ...

How the University of Miami’s Special Collections library came to possess one of its rarest, most valuable works — three volumes of engravings of roses commissioned by Empress Josephine Bonaparte of ...