The discovery of a prominent landowner’s death sent tremors through the community, the circumstances echoing a chilling tale passed down for six centuries. The manner of his demise appeared to stage a grim fulfillment of the ancient legend …

A woman's body has been discovered near Lake Pavin in the Auvergne region, and the circumstances of her death have deeply troubled investigators. The scene bears a disturbing resemblance to local legend—a tale recounting how the sinners of …

The heir to a food production business was found slain by a pitchfork, an act evoking the violence of a seventeenth-century uprising.

During a celebratory procession in Orléans, a young actress playing the part of Joan of Arc was struck and killed by an errant arrow.

Beside a weathered oyster shell bearing his name, a sixty-year-old man lay still within the quiet of the cemetery.