Nuit des Musées 2025 at La Maréchalerie, ÉNSA's contemporary art center in Versailles (78) The Night of the Museums also extends to the town of Versailles in the Yvelines. At La Maréchalerie, ÉNSA's ...

From the unmissable Palace of Versailles to the architectural pearls of the Loire, here is a selection of the most magnificent French châteaux. These ten royal and ducal residences have become jewels ...

This extravagant home has an indoor batting cage, movie theater, wine cellar and barbershop. What more could you need?

Dunkirk is home to fantastic contemporary art museums, a beautiful and serene ... Despite being born to a low-standing family, King Louis XIV was so impressed by his naval skill and bravery ...

Under the supervision of Maria Theresa (the only female Habsburg ruler), Schönbrunn evolved into an expansive paradise with ornate rooms and vast elaborate gardens comparable to King Louis XIV of ...

He rubbed shoulders with Louis XIV ... advised the king on a lavish 39-fountain array representing the different stories in Aesop's Fables that was eventually built in the Versailles gardens.

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 ...

Much of Gauguin's work is now on display at the Centre d'Art Musée Paul-Gauguin ... Formerly home to King Louis XIV's mistress, Madame de Maintenon, experts say that Le Precheur offers ...

The Chateau de Fontainebleau, in the heart of the forest, predates Versailles by five centuries ... In the 17th century, Louis XIV launched a grand initiative to expand the forest, which was ...

A long line of kings—Francis II, Charles IX, Louis XIII—cut some mean figures on the palace dance floor. King Louis XIV, too fat to ... they have given the art has deterred a large segment ...