PARIS November 5 (Reuters) - The "Desk of the King" took nine years of work for the cabinetmakers of Louis XV, its rich inlays, secret drawers and innovative design making it one of the many ...

This 18th-century coastal estate on the French Riviera offers a pool and pool house, a separate studio, two new garages, a greenhouse and a private hillside chapel perched above the home. “It’s a ...

The French pieces at the National Gallery of Art show the progression of art in France during the period of the French Revolution, around the 18th and 19th centuries. It begins with lesser-known ...

The concept of the modern restaurant emerged in Paris in the 18th century, and its original bourgeois beginnings eventually ...

At Design Miami, or any of the other international fairs where François Laffanour exhibits, the French furniture dealer is a recessive figure, his wiry frame and dollop of silver hair sequestered at ...

She painted Marie Antoinette but survived the Reign of Terror, she was one of just four women ever admitted to France’s Royal Academy (or Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture), and now Anne ...

Typically, when experts think of drawings from this period, the male nude is the most familiar image, says Clark-Getty Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin, who spent time in Paris working alongside the ...