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With severe budget cuts hitting France’s arts sector, the Académie des beaux-arts warns of threats to creativity and ...

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The family-run atelier, which specializes in salvaging and replicating wood paneling dating back to the 16th century, grew to fame among the pillars of the Gilded Age and was endeared by the late ...

For the first time, the Louvre hosts a stunning fashion exhibition, where the legacies of Chanel, Balenciaga, and Versace ...

The seat of French kings until Louis XIV abandoned it for Versailles in the late 1600s, the Louvre is regularly listed as the world's most visited museum and houses masterpieces including Leonardo ...

Paris has long been known as as a global business hub, from its medieval markets to its rise as a financial and corporate ...

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In 1663, New France (Canada) became a royal province under King Louis XIV. In 1778, the American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it ...