The Louvre Museum's Apollo Gallery reopened to visitors on Wednesday without any jewels on display, nine months after a ...

Starting Saturday and continuing until the end of summer, swimming will be permitted in the Bassin de la Villette, at Bercy near the Bras Marie and just a few hundred meters from the Eiffel Tower, the ...

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was a French Old Masters painter who was born in 1755. How much does a Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun cost? Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun's work has been offered at auction multiple times, ...

The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies, by Paul Fischer. Simon and Schuster. 416 pages. $28.99. On the morning of October 14, 1888, Louis Le Prince set ...

This article was originally published on November 5, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section. In a city of skyscrapers of nearly every ...

Everyone agreed Annie Le was exceptional. With a smile that could light up a room, the 24-year-old had been an academic star through high school and college and was on her way to earning a doctorate ...

William Landes joined the faculty of the Law School in 1974. He was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics in the Law School from 1992 to 2009. Landes received a BA from Columbia College ...

In the center of the town square stands a heroic bronze figure, a stern, sturdy, bearded man in homespun clothes, crossbow over his shoulder, his arm around a barefooted boy. Before him stands another ...