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 ...

What began as a glittering underwater mystery off the coast of France has turned into an international legal matter, the one ...

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 ...

During a time when social status meant everything, women of the 18th century literally made an indelible footprint on early ...