When Bassi Konate became mayor of Sarcelles this spring, the independent candidate backed by the hard-left France Unbowed ...

An old decree has returned to public attention after generations of neglect. The vote has renewed questions about recognition ...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of a speech delivered on May 28, 2026, at the “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Reenactment at The Heritage Foundation. Britain’s seven year war with ...

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’s lower house has voted finally to scrub a foundational slavery-era edict from French law. The National Assembly voted ...

Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon ...

In his latest history column, Ken Bridges reflects on the nation's 250th and the story leading to Paul Revere's famous ride.

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

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

The precepts of the Magna Carta were included in Elizabeth I’s 1578 grant to Sir Humphrey Gilbert and later charters included a key provision: all rights of Englishmen were retained by English ...

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 ...