Long closed to the public, the Palais-Royal built by Richelieu has now regained its former function as a place for walking and entertainment. The Garden of the Royal Palace is at the center of a quadrilateral closed on all four sides:one side houses the Council of State, the Constitutional Council,
The Place des Vosges , in the Marais Parisien, former Place Royale is the most mythical and the oldest in Paris. It was a high place of festivals and tournaments until the death of Henri II in 1559. After this tragic accident, it was necessary to wait for the reign of Henri IV who made it again a ma
The Palace of Versailles is a centerpiece of world heritage and one of the most visited historical monuments in the world, welcoming around 6.5 million visitors a year. Symbol of the power of the Sun King and of France in the Grand Siècle, Louis XIV realized his dream of stone, gold, greenery, water
The Père-Lachaise Cemetery is a cemetery located in the 20th arrondissement, in Paris, renowned for its many graves of famous people. It takes its name from the property of the Jesuits, acquired in 1626 and baptized Mont-Louis, where the Reverend Father François dAix de la Chaize, confessor of Louis
Private estate and symbol of the Empire style, Hôtel de Beauharnais, located rue de Lille in the 7th arrondissement of Paris is the current residence of the German Ambassador to France. On the occasion of a private visit, Histoire pour tous, retraces all in image, the history of the magnificent hot
The Guimet Museum is the national museum of Asian Arts, devoted to the arts of the civilizations of the East and the Far East. Since 1945, it has also been the Asian department of the National Museums. Founded in Lyon in 1879 by the orientalizing industrialist Émile Guimet to promote oriental religi
The city of Paris was founded around 250 BC on the Ile de la Cité by the Gallic tribe of the Parisii. At the time, it was a fortified town called Lutetia (Lutèce). In 52 BC, the city was conquered by the Romans, who gave it the name of Civitas Parisorium (Paris). Paris becomes the capital of the Fra
In the heart of Paris, rue Etienne Marcel, stands one of the last still visible vestiges of medieval Paris , the Jean sans Peu tower r. An ostentatious mark of the Burgundian presence in the troubled Paris of the early 15th century, it is a must for anyone passionate about medieval history. It was b
If we benefit nowadays from the magnificent garden that is the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, it is thanks to Marie de Médicis and her Italian taste. Loving this quiet neighborhood, she decided to acquire a piece of land large enough to build a palace and a garden in the Fl
Founded in 1938 and located on Place du Trocadéro in Paris, the Musée de lHomme is intended to bring together everything that contributes to the natural and cultural definition of the human being. Retracing the evolution of man since his origins, the museum offers a circuit by geographical area wher
The Gers is certainly a magnificent department, famous for the products of its soil and its sweetness of life. But, heart of Gascony, it is also renowned for the qualities of courage of some of its representatives such as the famous dArtagnan , character popularized by Alexandre Dumas, and native of
Classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the medieval city of Carcassonne is a remarkable and unique example of a fortified city, with its castle, its towers and its long and powerful ramparts. The city has been the subject of exceptional restoration campaigns since the 19th century, mainly led b
The Lascaux Cave is famous for the masterpieces of Paleolithic art, among the most important ever discovered, which adorn its walls and ceiling. It was discovered in the Dordogne department near Montignac, when four children and a dog entered it for the first time in September 1940. On the walls app
Located in the agglomeration of Angers, within the domain of Pignerolle, the Château-Museum of communication of Angers offers since 1992, an educational and interactive vision of the history of the means of communication . The innovations on display constitute a total of 1300 devices , including amo
Behind its ramparts and its keep which successfully challenged William the Conqueror, hides one of the Most Beautiful Villages in France , the small medieval town of Sainte-Suzanne . From the top of its rocky outcrop overlooking the Erve valley and located in the heart of the country of art and his
Doue-la-Fontaine is a commune in the department of Maine-et-Loire located southeast of Angers and southwest of Saumur. The territory has been occupied since the Neolithic era and is at the crossroads of several Roman roads, in particular the Angers-Poitiers road. In Carolingian times, Doué belonged
Nearly 600 years after the heresy trial of Joan of Arc, the city of Rouen opened the first space devoted to this trial, as well as that of his rehabilitation in 1455. Rouen has indeed, in the past, been the scene of the trial of one of the emblematic figures of the history of France, as well as his
The largest castle in the Loire, the Château de Chambord built to the glory of François Ist consists of more than 400 pieces and more than 2000 works of art. The estate symbolizes the kings passion for hunting and wild nature. Consecrated historical monument in 1840 and ceded to the State in 1930,
The Carnac alignments count several thousands of megalithic monuments, menhirs, dolmens and tumuli, dating from the Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age. Located in Morbihan, Carnac means the place where there are mounds of stones. It is a fascinating place, both for the beauty of the build
The history of Domaine dHarcourt begins with the History of Normandy. In 911, the Treaty of Saint Clair sur Epte was signed between the King of France Charles the Simple and Rollo, a Norman leader who invaded France, giving birth to Normandy. According to legend, Rollo gave the territory of Harcourt
The Romans created, since the Republican era and throughout the existence of the Empire, an impressive and extensive network of roads that connected the different and remote parts of their domains, from Britain to Egypt, and from Dacia to North Africa. . Thus, for example, a citizen of Gades (Cádiz
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest occurs in the year 9 AD. C. In this region of the limes (border in Latin), in the northwest of present-day Germany, Arminio , German leader Varus ally , betrays the consul unifying under his authority several Germanic tribes with whom he laid an ambush that would b
Pepin the Short, Charlemagne... Researchers have recently discovered human hair embedded in royal seals. Revealing a medieval belief about the power of body hair. Charlemagne (742-814), King of the Franks, grandson of Charles Martel, Carolingian dynasty. Engraving from the end of the 19th, beginnin
In 1954, a curious structure was discovered in the northwest of the island of Sardinia, near the town of Porto Torres:a huge stone platform whose oldest parts date from around 4000-3650 BC, that is, before, for example, Stonehenge, and about a thousand years older than the pyramids of Egypt. It is n