Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) was a French scholar, linguist, and Egyptologist who is renowned for his decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. He is considered the founding father of Egyptology and is...
The Dying Gaul is a famous Hellenistic bronze sculpture from ancient Greece that dates back to the 3rd century BC. The sculpture depicts a wounded Gallic warrior who is in...
Having grown tired of over three centuries of the worst form of oppression, social hierarchy and brutal enslavement, black African slaves in the prosperous French colony of Saint-Domingue began a...
Not much is known in French history about the first black man or person of mixed ethnicity to become a brigadier general, divisional general, and general-in-chief in the French army....
The date was June 18, 1815 and Napoleon Bonaparte had one last chance to secure France as Europe’s dominant power against Britain and the Seventh Coalition and possibly bring an...