An 80-year-old novelist and her husband could face trial in France over the alleged theft and illegal sale of gold bars taken ...

Eleonor "Gay" Courter and her husband have been accused of helping to sell the bullion for a French diver who stole it decades ago, but have denied knowledge of any wrongdoing.

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 ...

Scores of French love letters from the mid-18th century have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written. The letters – sent to French sailors by wives, siblings and ...

BLAKEMORE: He was, yeah - so, a French peasant born in a town near to Lyon in the south of France in the late 18th century. He would have been about 18 years old at the height of the French ...