Paris is a city deeply entrenched in our collective world culture. Some feel it’s a city of romance. Others look at its ...

Workers at the historic catacombs of Paris are rebuilding a wall containing remains of martyrs from the French Revolution. The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies ...

Paris has a deeper and stranger connection ... Some of the more recent date from the French Revolution; the oldest may hail from the Merovingian era, more than 1,200 years ago.

Not every inch of Paris is as romantic as you think – in fact, the Catacombs are downright chilling. Prior to the creation of the Catacombs in the late 18th century, Parisians buried their dead ...

Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the ...