Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the ...

When it comes to Mexican presidents, Benito Juárez is pretty difficult to beat in terms of achievements and legacy.

While the heroes of the War of Independence fought for freedom, there were Greek politicians who betrayed them for money and ...

Folk tales offer a kind of fabular impersonality, where an author’s voice is lost in a wider fiction machine or culture of storytelling. That form of multi-voiced impersonality played a big part in ...

French and Haitian revolutions, the wars of independence in Spanish America, the ‘nationalist’ – although Israel forcefully rejects the use of this term – uprisings in Europe in the 1830s and the ...

As Greece counts 200 years from the War of independence and stands proud as a member of the EU, the mind reels to the ...

Fernand Léger, the French artist known for his eccentric, riotously colourful paintings that drew on modernist schools such as cubism and Surrealism, exerted an outsize and wide-ranging influence on ...

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution ...

France’s delayed #MeToo movement is finally forcing the nation to confront its own myths about art, power and male genius.

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

The unconventional artistic rebellion of surrealism may seem a long way removed from the sober, disciplined work of Marxist ...

Scam alert: Watch out for fake text messages from French banks ...