The couple has been accused of helping to sell the gold for a French diver who stole it decades ago, but have denied ...

Le Prince de Conty, a French ship trading with Asia, sank off the coast of Brittany in 1746. The shipwreck was first ...

French authorities are pushing for a trial, while the couple maintains they were unaware of the gold's controversial ...

A Bundle of 18th-Century Love Letters Is Unsealed at Last More than 100 letters, addressed to French sailors, were never delivered. They remained unopened for nearly 250 years, until a historian ...

In the 18th century, people only had letters, but what they wrote about feels very familiar.” England and France have a long, complicated history of being at war, most notably the Hundred Years ...

A French researcher from the University of Cambridge in the UK has begun opening undelivered letters written to French sailors during an 18th century war between Britain and France.

In the 18th century, people only had letters but what they wrote about feels very familiar.” In 1758, a third of French sailors were detained in Britain, with their families repeatedly trying to ...

Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The aristocratic French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon chose a good year to die: 1788. Reflecting ...