But Russia did not plan on continuing the alliance after ... of Germany's military capitulation in the French cathedral city of Reims, news that broke on 8 May 1945. The USSR wanted its own ...

As Western alliances unravel, Europe is entering an era that seems distant from what VE Day represented, the BBC's Katya Adler writes.

A grand pilgrimage is in the works to commemorate the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris ... Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims. As of now, more than 700 religious communities ...

Discover Strasbourg, one of France's gems in the Grand Est region, home to fine Alsatian cuisine and culture, with charming ...

(Photo: Bettmann Archive) But for all that its dawning had been drawn out, the “cessation of active operations” – the dry military term used by the generals in Reims to describe the end of ...

There are some unmissable things to do in Reims, such as the Cathedral and plenty of champagne tours, and there are even more little finds waiting to be discovered. Let’s start with a few facts.

There’s a kind of magic to watching a landscape roll by through a train window—villages, vineyards, and mountains unfolding like a slow-motion film. In springtime, there are trees heavy with ...

The nation had grand plans for a national cathedral designed by a celebrity architect. The $400 million project became a political battleground. By Ruth Maclean Photographs by Francis Kokoroko ...

The site lies within the Wakefield Cathedral Conservation area and close to where a new city square is about to be created by the council. Plans have been approved to convert empty offices ...