France

This agreement was signed by the French government and the anti-colonialist, socialist Viet Minh guerilla force. It divided Vietnam into two halves at the 17th parallel, with the northern half administered by the Viet Minh and the southern half under the French, although the two sections were meant…

Summary from Library of Congress: Franklin was widely popular in France, where he had lived from 1776 to 1785 as the chief US diplomatic representative. After hearing of his death on April 17, 1790, the French National Assembly issued a decree that its members would observe three days of mourning.…

The treaty, sent to Congress by the American negotiators, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay, formally ended the Revolutionary War. They emerged from the peace process with one of the most advantageous treaties ever negotiated for the United States. Two crucial provisions of the treaty…

This treaty, signed on February 8th, 1778, formalized France’s financial and military support of the revolutionary government in America. As part of the alliance between “the most Christian King and the United of North America,” neither party could conclude a peace “with Great Britain without the…

In anticipation of a possible war with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts imposed stricter regulations on foreign-born Americans and curtailed any speech that was critical of the government.

The Federalist Party, which supported a strong central government, viewed Democratic-…

On April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million from France. This almost doubled the size of the US.

<p><span class="deck">“To push back the consciousness of American beginnings, beyond Jamestown, beyond the Pilgrims, to the highwater mark of the Elizabethan Age” -- Part One of a New Series.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">When Benjamin Franklin came home from France in diplomatic triumph, he left behind a lovely, highborn lady mourning the miles between them.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">An eyewitness recreates a wonderful, wacky day in August, 1944, when Hemingway, a handful of other Americans, and a s</span>eñorita <span class="deck">named Elena helped rekindle the City of Light. Champagne ran in rivers, and the squeals inside the tanks were not from grit in the bogie wheels.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Faced with war, famine, and bloody revolution, a political wheel horse turned into a first-class ambassador.</span> </span></p>

<p>We have come a long way from the philosophy of the Enlightenment...a shift that represents a retreat rather than an advance, argues the noted historian.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “I do not admit that a woman can draw like that,” said Degas when he saw one of her pictures</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> EQUIPMENT WAS HARD TO COME BY, RED TAPE WAS RAMPANT. BUT AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS IN FRANCE BUILT AN AMBULANCE CORPS THAT PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY IN THE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR I</span> </p>

<p>Rakehells, men of good will, adventurers, and bunglers were all in the glittering pageant when the Old World came to help out the New</p>

<p>A soldier remembers a great battle</p>

<p>The doughboys numbered only 550 men -- the remnants of four battalions -- and were surrounded by Germans. Then they were given the order to attack.</p>

<p>An infantryman remembers how it was</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The American Experience With Foreign Aid</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The mob was at the palace gates; her husband was already a prisoner; the servants were stealing imperial treasures before her eyes; Empress Eugénie turned to the one man in France she could trust—Dr. Thomas W. Evans of Lancaster, Pa.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In the Meuse-Argonne, this backwoods pacifist did what Marshal Foch saw as “the greatest thing accomplished by any private’ soldier of all the armies of Europe.”</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A veteran news correspondent recalls his days as a spotter plane pilot</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a Whole Nation Said Thank You</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> One of the most ingenious and least known rescue missions of World War II was engineered by a young American dandy, Varian Fry, who shepherded to safety hundreds of European intellectuals wanted by the Nazis</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On the eve of the Normandy invasion, a training mission in the English Channel came apart in fire and horror. For years, the grim story was suppressed.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">New Orleans cuisine, with its French roux, African okra, Indian filé, and Spanish peppers, is literally a gastronomic melting pot. Here’s how it all came together.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On their weathered stone battlements can be read the whole history of the three-century struggle for supremacy in the New World.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When the French Revolution broke out 200 years ago this month, Americans greeted it enthusiastically. After all, without the French, <span class="typestyle">we</span> could never have become free. But the cheers faded as the brutality of the convulsion emerged, and Americans realized that they were still only a feeble newborn facing a giant, intimidating world power. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Remember the excitement of the 1924 Olympics in <em><span class="typestyle"> Chariots of Fire</span></em>? That was nothing compared with what the U.S. rugby team did to the French at those games. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the years between the dedication of the Statue of Liberty and the First World War, the Divine Sarah was, for hundreds of thousands of Americans, the single most compelling embodiment of the French republic.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In an age when the best black artists were lucky to exhibit their work at state fairs, Henry Ossawa Tanner was accepted by the most selective jury in France.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For years, people have argued that France had the <span class="typestyle"> real</span> revolution and that ours was mild by comparison. But now, a powerful new book argues that the American Revolution was the most sweeping in all history. It alone established a pure commercial culture that makes America the universal society we are today. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY HAS NOT BEEN TIME ENOUGH TO EFFACE THE REMNANTS OF VIOLENCE ALONG A 400-MILE FRONT.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A D-DAY VETERAN’S GRANDSON ATTEMPTS TO FIND THE ANSWER TO THAT MOST IMPENETRABLE QUESTION: WHAT WAS IT LIKE?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">CAPT. LOUIS FRAN’OIS BERTRAND DUPONT D’AUBEVOYE, COMTE DE LAUBERDIÈRE, served the patriot cause in the Revolution, did all he could to teach Virginians proper French manners, made love to the local women, and found every American inferior. Except for one.</span></p>

<p><span class="body">American self-interest was involved, of course, but the Marshall Plan remains what some have referred to as a rare example of “power used to its best end.”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The French helped us win our revolution. A few years later, we were at war with Napoleon’s navy. The two countries have been falling in and out of love ever since. Why?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Revolution’s Second Toughest Job</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">It has taken us two and a half centuries to realize just how important this conflict was.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The 70-year-old statesman lived the high life in Paris and pulled off a diplomatic miracle.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Written in haste, on an April midnight in 1803, the unedited text of the message that led to the Louisiana Purchase is printed for the first time.</span></p>

<p>American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens finds inspiration in France to create one of America’s most iconic sculptures, a memorial to the Civil War hero Admiral David Farragut.</p>