France

Jeanne Baret was a French botanist and is believed to be the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, sailing across…

Mary and Henry’s marriage was one of the royal families’ most miserable unions. As she saw her husband strive to…

No reason for tears: how divorce is celebrated in different countries.

What has a beginning will inevitably come to an end. As tragic as they may seem, wars have a crucial…

The enigmatic Black Monk is mentioned in one of these medieval stories. Black Monk is a nobleman who lives on…

Following the failure of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, France was confronted with one of the most massive revolutions in…

War is the most reliable companion along the entire path of humankind. It never stops: even after such grandiose events…

Mount Tambora erupted in 1815 on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. Historians believe it was the deadliest known direct impact…

Any unsuspecting swimmer diving off the coast of Cannes in France might think they have stumbled upon some ancient civilization…

There’s a lonely abandoned lighthouse on a remote island at the very edge of the world, in a place called…

Perfectly symmetrical compositions, rows of ancient Egyptian and Zoroastrian symbols, hypnotizing rhythms – like a mirror broken into many fragments,…

The great Nietzsche once said that life without music would be a mistake, and he was right. And although today…