Ideally located on the Seine, Rouen became one of France's greatest ... stained-glass windows of the 16th century. Situated about 6 miles from the D-Day beaches, Bayeux was the first city ...

The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first voyage in search of a sea route to India (1497-99) and the “discovery ...

Even though millions of French troops were manning the defensive Maginot Line in early 1940, Hitler's brilliant blitzkrieg strategy caught the Allies by surprise, and Germany occupied France ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The 16th century was an age of exploration in all senses of the term, a period when colossal advances in ...

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Although there’s some question as to whether Marguerite de La Rocque’s island prison was located where the 16th-century map placed the Isle of Demons or further south in the Gulf of St.

No proper police force existed before the 16th century. It was the responsibility of the victim and local community to find the criminal themselves. It was expected that communities would be ...