Few things define the French more vividly than romance and love. For hundreds of years, the French have obsessed over love and sex, in art, literature and poetry. From the middle ages to modern day, ...

A University of Cambridge historian has decoded more than 100 previously unopened letters sent during the Seven Years War. Lost French love letters from the 1750s reveal what life was like during ...

For centuries, a box of letters sat unopened in the National Archives in the U.K., until one curious historian recently unsealed and read them for the first time. What he found was a panoply of human ...

THE FRENCH GO HAND IN HAND, BUT A CAFE SAUVAGE IN THE BACK BAY. THAT MARRIAGE IS ON FULL DISPLAY FROM THE FOOD, THE AMBIANCE TO THE HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO RUN THE SHOW. WE WANTED TO HAVE A FRENCH ...

Until watching the magnificent new restoration of Marcel Carné’s 1945 “Children of Paradise” a few days ago, I hadn’t seen this legendary love story — arguably the most famous and beloved film ever ...

Imagine writing a letter to someone when it was one of the few forms of communication while you were apart – and that letter never made it to whom you intended. That is what happened to more than 100 ...

The unread letters have provided a rare insight into the lives of sailors and their families in the 1700s, from the wife of a senior naval officer to an elderly mother chastising her son for not ...