Louis XIV of France, the absolute monarch known as the Sun King, said, possibly apocryphally, “L’État, c’est moi,” literally, ...

Researchers looking for the remains of Patrick Sarsfield, one of the great tragic figures of Irish history, have found a skeleton in Belgium which they believe may be him. Sarsfield was one of the ...

Dating back to 1911, the Madison has been a hotel most of that time, but the Olano family, which owns the fleet of lorries ...

Patrick Sarsfield is best known for his defence of Limerick against the forces of William of Orange back in 1690, in an event ...

The first lawns were created by the nobles and aristocrats of 17th- and 18th-century Europe, including Louis XIV of France, whose Versailles gardens were the first to include squares of tapis vert ...

Gerald Scholl's performance was as eye-opening as it was ear-pleasing, and the audience responded with a standing ovation.

A new lyric video for "Versailles" by Ayaka was released to the singer's YouTube channel the day after the Rose of Versailles ...

In much of political discourse across the globe, references to absolutism or over concentration of political power in a single potentate often adopt the 17th century King Louis XIV of France as a ...

Paris has long been known as as a global business hub, from its medieval markets to its rise as a financial and corporate ...

Recently, the new U.S. Administration announced some notable geographic name changes. Maps may soon display the “Gulf of ...

Fort William in Kolkata, the headquarters of the Indian Army's Eastern Command, has been renamed Vijay Durg. The fort was ...

Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps is the mightiest mass of ice in Europe. Covering a staggering 66 square miles (171sq km) it has always attracted ...