It was one of Joseph Sorger's last wishes to have his estate sold at auction at Freeman's, a venue at which he had procured much of his collection.

On May 13, 2024, the Ghanaian capital of Accra witnessed an emotional homecoming as Stevie Wonder, an iconic American ...

Christie’s will offer a rare Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting in its London sales this fall. The work is estimated at $3.3 ...

Police shot and gravely wounded a man Wednesday after he set fire to the town hall in western French city of Angoulême ... the 46-year-old burst into the 19th-century building and poured petrol ...

The French passenger steamship Le Lyonnais, missing since 1856, has been located in the Atlantic Ocean. According to the ...

Along with wine-producing regions in Italy, Spain, and America, France is one of the world's leading producers of wine. The history of French wine dates back to the sixth century BCE, and several ...

A marine salvage firm has found the wreck of a long lost French steamship about 200 miles off New Bedford, Massachusetts ...

A company called Phononic is using a discovery from the 19th century to change the way a number ... Discovered in 1834 by French physicist Jean-Charles-Athanase Peltier, it describes what happens ...

An image supposedly showing the 19th-century construction of the Statue ... The photograph is also credited in the book "Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and History," Housch said.

making her an example of the way innovation was changing shipping in the mid-19th century.But disaster struck during the ship's first return voyage back to the French city of Le Havre from the U.S ...

A "LUXURIOUS" apartment from the 19th century has just hit the Irish market ... finishings throughout having been designed in the French mansard-style with an imposing exterior & cast-iron balcony ...