THE French nation has led the world in many movements tending to establish exalted ideals and to uplift mankind ; but at no time in its history have its aims and efforts been more noble or more ...

Andrew Graham-Dixon examines the history of French art, revealing how it emerged from a struggle between tradition and revolution, and rulers and citizens. He compresses centuries of culture into ...

The statecraft and the art of France havescarcely produced two things more remarkable than a certain document and the ship on which it was en route last week to Manhattan. The document proposed in a ...

Art historian and critic Andrew Graham-Dixon opens his latest series with the dramatic story of French art. A story of the most powerful kings ever to rule in Europe with their glittering palaces and ...