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The real story of Joan of Arc is as dramatic as any ancient myth or legend. Driven by religious visions, Joan led French troops to nigh impossible victories, but eventually fell victim to political ...

Édouard Louis Dubufe’s portrait of Rosa Bonheur, 1857, and a delicate abstraction by Sonja Sekula, 1951, act as bookends—or punch lines of a sort—for “Queer Modernism: 1900–1950.” ...

Johnny Depp as France’s King Louis XV? Speaking French? Yeah, I want to see that. That was my first thought on French director/star Maiwenn’s JEANNE DU BARRY, her costume drama about the king’s ...

“It’s very important that women make films,” she’d said with typical intelligence and directness. “In this huge concert, with a majority of masculine instruments, maybe some feminine instruments would ...

People in France remember the summer of 1997 for the deaths of Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, and Jeanne Calment. The first became a household name by marrying into royalty; the second, by caring for ...