Notre-Dame may have started out as a Gothic cathedral, but over the centuries it has morphed into a civic emblem and leading ...

Carolina Ferreira explains that Notre-Dame — which reopened on Saturday, after being closed for five years due to renovations ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865 ... Manet challenges the accepted function of art in France, which is to glorify history and the French state, and ...