If you travel to France these days, you'll be dealing in European currency rather than French currency. That's been the case since 2000, when the country adopted the euro as its official ...

Louis XIV of France, the absolute monarch known as the Sun King, said, possibly apocryphally, “L’État, c’est moi,” literally, ...

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 ...