Though Marie Antoinette may not have actually said, “Let them eat cake,” the French monarchy and aristocracy displayed an ...

Moody’s has downgraded the ratings of seven major French banks amid spiraling national debt and a toxic political environment, days after it cut its rating for the country as a whole.

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...