PARIS, Monday, Jan. 30, 1860. France offers at the present moment a curious and instructive spectacle to the politician. On the one hand we see a revival of those old parties and old hatreds which ...

1860, asserts that "the whole of France -- a nation of thirty-six millions of inhabitants -- only appropriates as much money to common schools as does the City of New-York -- something like six ...

Emile Zola's masterpiece brought vividly to life, dramatised by Diana Griffiths. Set in 1860s France, a struggling mining community takes refuge in the revolutionary young outsider, Étienne ...