history

A whiff of the past: European project aims to archive smells from history

Charles de Gaulle: The man behind the myth

Restoring Nazi ruins: Nuremberg opts to preserve relics of dark past

France honours 6-year-old Quinquin, youngest wartime resistance hero

Macron leads French tributes to fallen soldiers on Armistice Day

France inducts World War I writer Maurice Genevoix into the Panthéon

Africa 1960: Four faces of independence from France

Recreating a visual record of a lost Mexican past

The world needs to trust science, urges historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari

T-Rex skeleton auction: Dinosaur remains up for sale

India: What remains of Gandhi's legacy?

Discovering France's prettiest streets

High up in France's Pyrenees, past meets present

Rio Tinto executives sacked over destruction of historic site

New study shows Bronze Age people kept bones of their loved ones as 'keepsakes'

Behind sketch of black MP in shackles, a French failure to confront slave legacy

How can we apply lessons from the Spanish flu’s second wave to Covid-19?

A brief history of masks through the ages

Postcard reveals site of Van Gogh's final painting

In DR Congo, legacy of Belgium's colonial violence lives on

Difficult women and how they impacted our lives

Gerald Horne explains Juneteenth on France 24

French parliament statue of ‘Black Code’ author defaced in anti-racism protest

Paris statues of Voltaire and a colonial-era general splashed with red paint