Last summer, Yale students Cordélia de Brosses, Hélène Cesbron Lavau, and Stephanie Wisowaty visited the Château Fontainebleau outside of Paris to tour the grand palace’s galleries, courtyard, and ...

The time has come for the fourth article in our French glossary series! France has a long history, and through the centuries, the country has witnessed the power of the monarchy expressed through ...

Dominique Brancher, a specialist in the French Renaissance, was recently appointed the Henri M. Peyre Professor of French, effective immediately. Brancher, who joined the Yale faculty in the fall of ...

While the grandest glories of the French Renaissance were the elaborate castles circling Paris and adorning the Loire Valley, down in Central France a much smaller art form flourished. The enamels of ...

Five hundred years ago this fall, Leonardo da Vinci arrived in Amboise, a small town on France’s Loire River, bringing with him his three most famous paintings — “Mona Lisa,” “Saint John the Baptist” ...

NASHUA – Until 20 years ago, the narrow strip of pavement, squeezed between an overgrown Nashua River shoreline and the underbelly of the Water Street Ramp, was an unkempt parking lot that otherwise ...

A sprawling $64 million Renaissance-style palace on the French Riveria has to be demolished because it was built illegally, an appeals court has ruled. Chateau Diter in the Provence town of Grasse, ...