Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MARSEILLE, FRANCE — At the northern edge of this seaside port city —  first ...

In the 1900s, a growing number of boys aged over 16 were sent to Les Douaires in Normandy. Rumours spread of frequent sexual ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée met its most devastating enemy—not the Russian army, but biology itself. As ...

Ancient DNA reveals Napoleon’s army was decimated by hidden fevers, not typhus, during the disastrous 1812 Russian invasion.

New DNA evidence from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals Napoleon's retreating Grand Armée was decimated by paratyphoid and ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of<a ...

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French emperor’s troops as they withdrew from Russia.

Genetic analysis has shed new light on one of history's deadliest military disasters — the French retreat from Russia in 1812. https://p.dw.com/p/52WAl An analysis ...

PARIS — After this year’s popular success, the Tour de France will return to Montmartre for the grand finale of the 2026 edition that also includes two stage finishes at the Alpe d’Huez. Tens of ...