Ribald and X-rated, a new exhibit at France's national library is banned to anyone under 16. The exhibit that opened this week offers a peek at France's long-secret library of libido, where, starting ...

The manuscript given to France's national library Thursday begins simply, yet seductively: "The story of Jacques Casanova ... written by himself." "Himself" is the 18th century lothario, spy, writer ...

American soldiers in Paris just after the armistice of World War I. The American Library in Paris was a continuation of the work of the Library War Service, which ALA created in 1917 to supply reading ...

A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is raising money to buy it. By Elaine Sciolino A prelude and dance by the French ...

Paris, July 16, 1960: An American girl (left) and two French youngsters in the reading room set aside for children at the American Library in Paris. The library was established after World War I when ...

Want to get a feel for France? Denise Marie LaMar’s exhibit Les Fleurs et La Belle France is up until Sept. 5 at Summerlin Library’s art gallery, 1771 Inner Circle. The oil paintings include flowers, ...

In his eulogy to the American volunteers fallen for France during World War I, the poet Alan Seeger wrote: “They brought fresh hearts … to that high mission. Yet sought they neither recompense nor ...

Boston singer-songwriter Will Dailey and his band are currently on tour in France, and on Friday night were in the town of Fougeres, roughly 200 miles away from the terrorist attacks in Paris.

A July 4 Instagram video shows a large building on fire. "Paris, France," reads the post's caption. "How do you feel about the arson attack on the Bibliothèque nationale de France?" The caption goes ...

Every time I turn up to my office in Paris, I gaze up at its French classicism meets Baroque beauty, crowned by a resplendent Italianate dome. Then a series of sculptures of learned men (they didn’t ...