In a dimly lit Paris wine bar, the sommelier pours a cloudy glass of Gamay that smells faintly of cherries and something...

On a gray Paris morning, the zinc countertop of a corner café gleams under the neon light. A man in a wool coat orders u...

On a rainy morning in Paris, a billboard above the Métro announces a new campaign: “Upgrade ton style.” The ad is in Fre...

In a world where headlines are dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches and China’s lunar probes, France might seem like...

Walk through any contemporary design fair from Milan to Miami and you’ll spot echoes of Bauhaus geometry, Scandinavian m...

For decades, Brutalism was the architecture everyone loved to hate. Its raw concrete towers and geometric slabs — once s...

When the fire tore through Notre-Dame Cathedral in April 2019, France was left staring at more than the ruins of a Gothi...

In the marshlands of southern France, where the Rhône River meets the Mediterranean, lives one of Europe’s most iconic a...

If wine can taste of its soil, why not butter? In France, butter isn’t just a spread — it’s a matter of pride, regional ...

In an age of instant messages and disappearing photos, the humble postcard might seem like a relic. Yet, in France, post...

Paris has long been synonymous with literary life. In the 20th century, cafés like Les Deux Magots and Café de Flore wer...

Over the past two decades, Paris — and much of France — has seen the rise of a culinary movement that bridges haute cuis...

Notre-Dame de Paris is known for its flying buttresses and stained-glass windows, but its bells are equally storied. Sus...

When people imagine France, they often picture Parisian cafés or lavender fields in Provence — not coal mines and slag h...

Buying a French wine can feel less like shopping and more like deciphering a medieval manuscript. Where a Californian bo...

In the 19th century, French poet Charles Baudelaire described the flâneur as a detached observer of city life — someone ...

The margins of French literature are often as revealing as the printed text itself. Beyond the polished novels and monum...

In France, the neighborhood bakery—la boulangerie—is far more than a place to buy bread. It is a social institution, a d...

Paris might be home to the Louvre, but some of the city’s best-kept cultural secrets fit into a single townhouse, courty...

When most people think of Napoleon Bonaparte, they picture grand Parisian monuments: the Arc de Triomphe, Les Invalides,...

In the sun-drenched hills and vineyards of southern France, the echoes of medieval troubadours still resonate, carried o...