Few kings of France faced a more daunting prospect than Henri Bourbon in 1589. France was decades into the Wars of Religion, ...

The winning book is based on an infamous suite of historical decrees passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the ...

Running the show beneath Astra’s polished aluminum shell is Devialet DOS3—a new operating system designed to unify the entire ...

He is the first pope from the US and took the papal name Leo XIV. The iconic Empire State Building in ... his commitment to peace and dialogue." French President Emmanuel Macron also extended ...

Newly chosen Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass at the Sistine Chapel on Friday, along with the cardinals who elected him. Follow for live news updates.

The wait is over, the announcement was made last Thursday and the billions of Catholic faithfuls all the world over, are ...

One extract reveals how, in what is considered a bizarre power play, the French president sprays on ... It continues: 'Just as Louis XIV made his perfumes an attribute of power when he paraded ...

French peasants had been hit by poor harvests ... barns, and coops. Bust of Louis XIV by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Palace of Versailles Photograph by DEA/Album The rivers, canal network, and ports ...

It was Louis XIV of France, that master of the dramatic ... system just for mail--trains zip letters around the city. The French also developed a foot-powered envelope-making machine, the Rabbate ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

Pope Leo XIV's brother lives in Port Charlotte, Florida. Pope Leo XIV, 69, was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago. Louis Prevost described his brother as a man who was teased as a child that ...