On a cold, late-October morning in western Paris, the residents of Rue Pierre-Guérin woke to the whirr of cameras. The gates ...

French courts have repeatedly ruled that installing Nativity scenes in town halls is a breach of the 1905 law separating the churches and the state. Sophie Mazas works tirelessly to ensure the ...

The police thought they were on the trail of sophisticated art thieves. The Belgian adventurer Honoré Joseph Géry Pieret had sold a Paris newspaper an Iberian statuette that he had stolen from the ...