Now, the letters have been opened and read for the first time, and their contents provide intriguingly rare historical context about a cross section of society at the time, said lead study author ...

A University of Cambridge historian has decoded more than 100 previously unopened letters sent during the Seven Years War. Lost French love letters from the 1750s reveal what life was like during ...

Imagine writing a letter to someone when it was one of the few forms of communication while you were apart – and that letter never made it to whom you intended. That is what happened to more than 100 ...

PARIS — A public letter signed by more than 100 French women that denounced the #MeToo movement has sparked an intense debate in France over everything from the appropriate limits of flirtation to the ...

For centuries, a box of letters sat unopened in the National Archives in the U.K., until one curious historian recently unsealed and read them for the first time. What he found was a panoply of human ...

“I could spend the night writing to you … I am your forever faithful wife. Good night, my dear friend. It is midnight. I think it is time for me to rest.” So wrote Marie Dubosc to her husband, the ...

Scores of French love letters from the mid-18th century have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written. The letters – sent to French sailors by wives, siblings and parents – ...

The letters remained unopened in storage for more than two centuries before Renaud Morieux read them. The National Archives / Renaud Morieux “I could spend the night writing to you … I am your forever ...