Louis XV (1710-1774) was king of France from 1715 to 1774. His reign was marked by the decline of the prestige of the monarchy and the deepening of the crisis that eventually led to the French Revolution. Since Louis XV, the great-grandson of Louis...

In the penultimate year of his long reign, Louis XIV forced the parlement of Paris to register the papal bull Unigenitus, which was intended to complete the suppression of Jansenism throughout Europe. Just months before his death, he declared that there were no...

AT MIDNIGHT French time on 31 December of this year, while most of Paris is going crazy on the Champs-Elysees, a clock-work miracle will occur unseen at the Chateau de Versailles. A clock built 253 years ago, to show days, months and years...