More than 100 letters, addressed to French sailors, were never delivered ... intimate details about romance and daily life in mid-18th-century France. Unlike many other written documents from ...

Wells St., from Thursday ... a 3.1-mile running race commemorating the storming of the Bastille, the 18th-century French prison, which sparked the French Revolution. The race route travels ...

In reality, this was taking place at Fête Française, the annual outdoor street fair hosted by ... called La Nouvelle-Orléans by its 18th century French founders. And though, according to ...

Swooping staircases and ormolu furnishings offer bland painted context for a relatively small handful of 18th century French and German ... on rearing horseback in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The archivist gave him permission to open the letters, all addressed to 18th-century French sailors from their loved ones and seized by Great Britain's Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War (1756 ...

celebrating the elegance and innovation of 18th-century French repertoire. Held in the comfortable and intimate setting of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in De Waterkant, Cape Town, this concert ...

Scores of French love letters from the mid-18th century have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written. The letters – sent to French sailors by wives, siblings and ...