Micaëla, Dowager Comtesse de Paris, wife of the late Comte de Paris, was born Micaëla Ana María Cousiño y Quiñones de León in Vichy in central France in 1938, into a family of Chilean-Spanish nobles.

Some 200 artefacts belonging to the descendants of France’s defunct royal family are going under the hammer at Sotheby's Paris on September 29. FRANCE 24 visited the exhibition three days before the ...

In France, there is no shortage of grand, crenelated châteaux – from the Château de Chenonceau that spans the river Cher in the Loire Valley to the 18th century Château de Chantilly located about 50km ...

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A French count has slammed plans to turn his family’s historic château into a five-star hotel, claiming that they violate an 1880s agreement never to modify the property. The château is owned by the ...

More than 200 objects from the descendants of France’s royal family are up for auction at Sotheby's Paris from September 29-30, marking the final chapter in an inheritance dispute that followed the ...

The last remaining treasures of the French royal family – including a silk purse embroidered by Queen Marie Antoinette in her prison cell – will be auctioned in Paris next week. The objects, including ...

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The lawmakers of an infirm Third Republic in 1886 were more than usually jittery about the future of popular rule in France. The tubby nephew of Emperor Napoléeon I was spending many an evening ...