Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times That legacy can be traced to the 18th century French watchmaker Jean ... his family’s watch factory in the Jura makes cases for several watch companies ...

Hidden deep in the French countryside, we discovered an abandoned 18th-century monastery with an incredible secret—it was used as a hospital during World War II. Walk with us through grand stone ...

The first French factory was established in Surat as late ... of the French settlements in India in the beginning of the 18th century. Saint-Pierre’s cast of characters may have found some ...

An antiques expert and cabinet maker were recently found guilty for forging and selling nine imitations of historic 18th ...

Swooping staircases and ormolu furnishings offer bland painted context for a relatively small handful of 18th century French and German decorative objects — teapots, candlesticks, dinnerware ...

From rare 18th-century furnishings and objects to art by ... as he was the last reigning monarch before the French Revolution. Created during a time when the luxurious fashions of Versailles ...

A employee sorts breads in an 18th-century wood-fired oven built in 1765 during the reign of French King Louis XV, at the Au Petrin Moissagais bakery in Bordeaux, south-west France. (Photo by ...

The archivist gave him permission to open the letters, all addressed to 18th-century French sailors from their loved ones and seized by Great Britain's Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War (1756 ...

"The Cut Melon," a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin, will be on view to the public starting Thursday at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.

Zachary Beattie of South Fayette, portraying a member of the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment, prepares his French-made Charleville musket during the 18th century military reenactment at Fort Ligonier on ...