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An 1880 oil on canvas, Le Bois des Roches Veneux Nadon, by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), the Franco-British impressionist painter. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

Allegory of the Concordat of 1801, painting by Pierre Joseph Célestin François, 1802. Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau, Rueil-Malmaison.

An 1872 oil on canvas painting, Horse Racing, by Edouard Manet (1832-83), the French modernist painter. The was a work commissioned by a racing enthusiast. Manet was a frequent race-goer himself, particularly the races held at the Bois de...

An 1879 oil on canvas painting, Summer's Day, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. This is a scene of the artificial boating lake in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, then a popular weekend spot for the capital's fashionable...

An 1881 oil on canvas, A Woman and a Girl Driving, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. Cassatt here captures an outing to the Bois de Boulogne, then on the outskirts of Paris. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA)

The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) was an intermittent conflict between England and France lasting 116 years. It began principally because King Edward III (r. 1327-1377) and Philip VI (r. 1328-1350) escalated a dispute over feudal rights...

Henry V of England ruled as king from 1413 to 1422. Succeeding his father Henry IV of England (r. 1399-1413), Prince Henry established himself as a fine military leader in battles against English and Welsh rebels in the first decade of the...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a French composer most famous for his piano and orchestral music. Works like Clair de Lune have become piano standards while La Mer, with its unusual use of instruments and impressionistic use of waves of sounds...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was a Russian composer most famous for his symphonies, the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, and the operas Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades. A composer of innovative and...

Henry VI of England ruled as king from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Succeeding his father Henry V of England (r. 1413-1422), Henry VI was crowned the king of France in 1431 but he could not prevent a French revival led by Charles...