He looked at his brother and said: "Get to D.C. and do what you do best." - The most disastrous haircut ever was that of King Louis VII of France - it started the Hundred Year's War. He was a 13th ...

Louis VII of France. Admits Fry wryly: “There are several plays there.” Fresh Start. In obvious need of rewriting, anticlimactic after Becket’s second-act death and sometimes weighed down by ...

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the publication, on Christmas Day, of a treaty between himself and the crowned ...

Image: Matt Brown The first properly recorded elephant in the city arrived in 1255 when Louis IX of France gifted an elephant ... later Edward VII, and remained his possessions.

A connoisseur of 18th-century French furniture fooled buyers into purchasing chairs with fake royal pedigrees, authorities ...

France enters Saturday’s Six Nations rugby finale against Scotland with the title at stake and a host of records up for grabs ...

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In October 2023, the European Commission referred Carrefour's acquisition of Louis Delhaize's French operations--which included 186 stores and all of its property assets--to the regulator. The French ...

To recap, prior to 1917, members of the royal family had no official surname, but were sometimes referred to by the House to which they belonged (think Henry VII being known as Henry Tudor).