A Hidden Staircase in a French Church Just Led Archaeologists ... as the 800-year-old church was used for salt storage in the 18th and 19th ... The 12th-century Church of Saint Philibert was not ...

A Bundle of 18th-Century Love Letters Is Unsealed at Last More than 100 letters, addressed to French sailors, were never delivered. They remained unopened for nearly 250 years, until a historian ...

This Is What Being in Your Twenties Was Like in 18th-Century London A newly restored collection of letters describes a 27-year-old’s office job, social life and financial concerns beginning in 1719.

In the 18th century, people only had letters, but what they wrote about feels very familiar.” England and France have a long, complicated history of being at war, most notably the Hundred Years ...