#French Revolution

Author: The New York Times / Source: New York Times Pool photo by Christophe Petit Tesson With the flames extinguished, the smoke clear and a new sun risen over Paris, the French got a heartening confirmation on Tuesday: The Cathedral of Notre-Dame still stands. It is scorched, battered and

Source: Good News Network On this day 70 years ago, the RCA Victor company introduced the 45-rpm record, an advancement that had taken almost a decade to develop. The 7-inch single was designed to offered better fidelity and longer playing time than the 78-rpm record currently in use. Most

Author: Laura O’Callaghan / Source: Express.co.uk Hundreds of members of the gilets jaunes movement are expected to descend on the suburb in West Paris on Saturday for their sixth weekend of demonstrations. The former royal city was a focal point of the French revolution and the October 1789

Author: Liz Alderman / Source: New York Times Graffiti equating President Emmanuel Macron to the king during the French Revolution, on the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris this week. Kamil Zihnioglu/Associated Press PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron of France is facing the toughest crisis of

Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura Nothing was supposed to change, not ever. The little cylinder, made of platinum and iridium, was supposed to stay the same, locked as it was inside a vault, and sealed within nested bell jars. That isolated life below the International Bureau