A new exhibition explores the enduring style of the infamous 18th-century French queen

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

Jewish teenager who volunteered for the Dutch resistance ...

In 1978, in a notary’s office in Bordeaux, May-Eliane de Lencquesaing’s life changed dramatically. Drawing lots with her siblings for their father’s estate, she inherited Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande in Pauillac. It began a five-decade journey in wine that none could have predicted, one that carries on today with her South African estate, Glenelly

The power and glory of Parisian art

The Barbary corsair ship appeared suddenly on the horizon, bristling with cannon. Its decks swarming with armed men, it sliced through the waves at a clip that its quarry – the British merchant ship A