Man, do not worry so much / and do not endure such pain; / if you do not have as much as Jacques Coeur, / it is better to ...

After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

Mátészalka, in Hungary’s north-east, has offered to be home to a statue of Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc), which is to be removed ...

In the aftermath of the New Year’s Day terrorist attack on Bourbon Street, the New Orleans carnival season remained stoic.

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As New Orleans prepares to host the Super Bowl next month, Louisiana authorities cleared homeless encampments around the stadium Wednesday and relocated many to a temporary warehouse facility that ...

Kailin Guerin, a New Orleans native, opened Lagniappe in September with her partner Lino Asana, a filmmaker. While pursuing a performing arts career in San Francisco, she worked in restaurants ...

The University of New Orleans will furlough hundreds of staff and faculty members, the latest of several cost-cutting measures the university has deployed as it tackles a $10 million budget gap ...

In 2022, researchers excavating the site of an 18th-century hospital in Orléans, France, uncovered a Roman necropolis containing more than 60 graves. Some of the burials included “curse tablets,” ...

The FBI also released a new photo of the suspect. The man who is suspected of committing the New Years Day vehicle-ramming attack in New Orleans searched online for information about the Christmas ...

The Lunar New Year is almost upon us and Arc’teryx is marking the marking the beginning of the Year of the (Wood) Snake with a limited edition version of its Alpha SV jacket. The Canadian ...