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Nov 21, 2017
There has likely never been a more extreme rags-to-riches story than Marie Angelique Leblanc’s
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Oct 3, 2017
Watch: Stilt-walking shepherds were commonplace in this French region
But Landes isn’t the only place with a history of stilts
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Stephanie Buck
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Sep 25, 2017
The most modern woman of Medieval Europe was a queen by birth, a warrior and murderer by legend
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Allen McDuffee
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Sep 22, 2017
This diamond gift to Benjamin Franklin is the reason Donald Trump can’t profit from the presidency
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Jul 18, 2017
Watch: The murderous maids who still fascinate France
A brutal crime with undertones of class warfare
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Rian Dundon
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Jun 25, 2017
These stunning pictures tell the story of the world’s most glamorous swimming pool
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Allen McDuffee
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Apr 25, 2017
In the 1980s, the U.S. meddled in French elections, supposedly to stop Communism
The Reagan…
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Matt Reimann
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Mar 1, 2017
The tragic story of the intersex person who puzzled 19th-century France
Herculine Barbin left a…
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Rian Dundon
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Dec 20, 2016
These Algerian women were forced to remove their veils to be photographed in 1960
Their portraits are…
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Stephanie Buck
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Dec 19, 2016
Horror spectators: The lady revolutionaries who calmly knit during executions
The ‘tricoteuses’ became…
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