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The Bayeux Tapestry, a 1,000-year-old masterpiece depicting the 1066 Norman conquest of England, will undergo major ...

The 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry will go off display from August 2025 to 2027 for preservation, returning in a newly designed exhibition space.

France’s Bayeux Tapestry will be closed to the public for two years whilst the museum housing it undergoes a €38m renovation.

Following the news that the Pompidou Centre is closing for five years, another famous French attraction is shutting down for ...

Artist and teacher Gerald “Jerry” Winter had an eye for detail – in his art and in his teaching. A professor of art on the ...

The longtime patriarch of the French far right, Jean-Marie Le Pen, died last month. Yet while the cadaver lies in the ground, ...

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Archaeologists have discovered potentially the world's oldest 3D map, carved into the floor of a rock shelter outside of ...

Even if you can't recall the particulars of the story it tells, you're likely familiar with the Bayeux Tapestry, which recounts the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. That's when William, Duke of ...

17. A train crash nearly derailed Our Mutual Friend. On June 10, 1865, Dickens was traveling home from France when his train derailed while crossing a bridge, and his car was left dangling from ...