On Aug. 21, 1789, just a month after the storming of the Bastille that launched the French Revolution, France’s new governing ...

In May 2025, François Bayrou, then the prime minister of France, fielded an unusual question from a member of Parliament: Why hadn’t France formally revoked the Code Noir, the ...

On Thursday, the lower house of parliament voted to wipe it from French law. The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing Code Noir, or Black Code, the 1685 ...

France seeks new partners as influence dips in ex-colonies Africa's richest man there with leaders and French firms Macron announced 23 billion euros of investments in Africa Kenya wants summit ...

During and after WWI, thousands of American women acted as mothers for displaced French children. A war studies research ...

President Emmanuel Macron has long called the restitution of African art from French museums a priority. Experts say the new law is a seismic moment in that effort. By Catherine Porter Reporting from ...

Investments worth 23 billion euros ($27 billion) will fund various sectors in Africa, including energy, artificial intelligence and agriculture, Macron said, adding that 14 billion euros ($16.4 ...

In this continuing series on the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states, the story of New England begins in a region that was, from the start, among the least welcoming places in early America for Ca ...

France is pitching what it says is a new model of partnership with African countries at a summit that begins Monday in Kenya as it completes a military withdrawal from West African countries that has ...

In 1776 the task of doing so fell to two brothers, Richard and William Howe. They had a dual mandate: to crush the rebels and ...

PARIS (AP) — For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property ...

The French parliament on Thursday definitively adopted legislation to simplify the return of artworks looted during the ...