An antiques expert and cabinet maker were recently found guilty for forging and selling nine imitations of historic 18th ...

Two French antiques experts have been convicted of forging historic chairs that they claimed had once belonged to French ...

A French court on Wednesday sentenced a top antiques expert to jail for duping the Palace of Versailles and wealthy ...

Imagine, it’s the French Revolution and the outspoken 18th century feminist writer Olympe de Gouges, Charlotte Corday who ...

She’s now back on Showmax in Harlots, another hit period family drama, set in 18th century England. This time though, her parents aren’t part of the nobility; she’s rather the eldest daughter of a ...

The archivist gave him permission to open the letters, all addressed to 18th-century French sailors from their loved ones and seized by Great Britain's Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War (1756 ...

In 1963, according to a report in the Harvard Crimson at the time, a teenage Massachusetts boy spent 95 cents to buy a novel written in the 18th century ... translated into French early on ...

This is, briefly, the story of Le Café de Surate (The Coffee-House of Surat), an 18th-century tale by French writer Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814) evoking religious tolerance ...

New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait by French painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo. Recently uncovered documents ...

Second-century writer Cassius Dio derided her “insatiable passion and insatiable avarice.” To the poet Propertius, she was “lecherous” and a “harlot queen.” Wu Zetian, the only female ...