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.

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

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 ...

A retired couple from Florida is facing the prospect of being tried in France - for selling gold stolen from an 18th-century ...

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 ...

That legacy can be traced to the 18th century French watchmaker Jean-Charles Oudin, ... Few people, other than watch historians and industry insiders, know the brand now.

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 ...

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 ...

Still, let’s not forget that back in the 18th century, Paris gave the world the French Revolution, which produced a nation even more secular than our own. Maybe Johnson didn’t mean the 18th ...