STRASBOURG, France (AP) -- Monuments are the emotional backbone of France. That accounts for the despair over a blaze that killed no one, yet seared the collective soul. It is the power Notre Dame had ...

Art lovers soon will descend upon the Grand Palais for Art Basel Paris. But it’s hardly the building’s first turn in the spotlight. By Farah Nayeri This summer, on the evening of July 26, during the ...

Eiffel Tower employers and protestors on Thursday hold a banner declaring that "Eiffel Tower's employees on strike." Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff It’s been four days since the most emblematic of French ...

On Alexandre Lenoir and the Musée des Monuments Français. The Louvre Museum, that encyclopedic creation of the French Revolution, founded in 1793 and just a five-minute walk from here across the Seine ...

A monument honoring the gay victims of the Nazi regime — as well as all LGBTQ people who have been persecuted throughout history — was recently unveiled in Paris. Designed by French artist Jean-Luc ...

The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is "a monument of humanity," French architect Philippe Villeneuve told a Washington audience. He spoke during a recent program at the National Building Museum on the ...

France’s iconic capital city is filled with fantastic monuments. Many monuments in Paris are known all over the world like the Eiffel Tower and the Arc De Triomphe. However, some are less well-known.

The basilica, which sits atop the hill of Montmartre, is the second most visited site in the capital, after Notre-Dame. By Constant Méheut PARIS — For more than a century, the Sacré-Coeur Basilica has ...

Paris, known for three centuries as "The City of Light," will look much darker this winter, with France pushing a policy of "energy sobriety" that will turn off the lights to the city's top shops and ...