The shelling of Rheims Cathedral in the First World War was a split-second military decision – but one that would have huge consequences. The burning cathedral became a symbol of the cultural war ...

Charles Peguy was a French Catholic poet who died in World War I. A distinguishing aspect of his craft was that he wrote his poetry as if God were speaking; in one of the poems, God speaks about ...

The belly of the cathedral is cavernous. Buttery light streams through stained glass and pools on the concrete floor. It’s hollow and holy, and the echoes of tourist footsteps fill the space where ...

In mid-September 1914, it was still anyone’s guess who would win the Great War on the ground—but the Allies had already won the propaganda war, as far as public opinion in neutral countries was ...

More than a century after being severely damaged by German bombing raids, the Cathedral of Reims in France has been fitted with three new stained glass windows designed by the German artist Imi ...