It all started, bizarrely, around 700 miles away - with the Franco-Prussian War. France declared war on ... onto which was painted a single word: 'French'. “The boys referred to gang-fighting ...

Oxford academic Professor George Garnett claimed to have identified 93 depictions of male genitalia. But now another scholar ...

A working-class young woman searches for her stolen infant daughter and takes some upper-crust French people for ... of tales about the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A seemingly inconsequential ...

Caillebotte (1848-1894) was best known for being a benefactor to his fellow Impressionists. Dismissed by his contemporaries ...

In 1871 as the French and German armies were engaged in fierce fighting during the Franco-Prussian War, a brave French soldier emerged unarmed from the safety of his foxhole and began singing ...

Tyres: We chose the Michelin Power 6 for the Hayabusa, and the Road 6 for the SV. The Power 6 is the sportier option, which ...

It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured ...

But only a few months later Julia Ward Howe would be staying at the same Willard Hotel when, in the course of a day, she saw a column of freshly inducted Union soldiers, in blue uniforms ...