Since New Year's, Frenchmen have celebrated with pomp & circumstance the hundredth anniversaries of Romanticism, of the conquest of Algeria, of the invention of the sewing machine.* Last ...

Eugène Delacroix’s newly cleaned 1830 painting at the Louvre has transcended its origins over time—first becoming a stirring representation of French Republicanism, then of France itself, and ...

JUST a hundred years ago France undertook to give a long overdue lesson to the African pirates who infested the Mediterranean Sea and who had until then successfully resisted Europe's sporadic efforts ...

1830 - France seizes Algiers, ending Algeria's three centuries as an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire. 1939-1945 - The collapse of France and the Anglo-American occupation of North Africa ...

The outcome of France’s 1830 uprising was pretty much what Delacroix would have considered ideal: Charles X, remembered as one of France’s stupidest kings, was ousted for another king with ...