Items relating to the death of Marie Antoinette go on display in London, including the guillotine possibly used to execute ...

A mother and daughter walk to school on the first day (Photo by JOHANNA LEGUERRE / AFP) Many people will have been taught in school that in France you refer to younger or unmarried women as ...

The last throes of la vie bordel are revealed in new French drama “Madame Claude.” Kennedy, who heard about the glamorous gals from his buddy Frank Sinatra, allegedly requested a type of call girl ...

There's a silver lining to every sexual scandal, particularly ones involving powerful men here (Clarence Thomas) and abroad (Dominique Strauss-Kahn whose arrest aboard Air France for sexual assault ...

French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura being suggested to perform at the Paris Summer Olympics opening ceremony sparked what many consider a racist campaign against her. She planned on singing something ...

New York’s Giant Fall Restaurant Preview Babbo returns, Melissa Weller has a new bakery, PDT is expanding, and much, much more.

NEW ORLEANS — Vandals tagged the historic French Quarter building known as Madame John’s Legacy Sunday night, leaving graffiti on one of the oldest buildings in the French Quarter. The words “Below ...

New Orleans preservationists are in a huff over a $1 million renovation project on one of the rarest historic buildings in the French Quarter, claiming that recent work has damaged original aspects of ...

A long-running dispute over repair work to Madame John's Legacy, a rare 18th century Louisiana-Creole building on Dumaine Street in the French Quarter, has taken a new twist after a City Hall agency ...