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

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

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

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...

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

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

Drive through the rolling hills of northeastern France, and you may stumble upon something haunting: villages that exist...

If you’ve ever driven in France, you’ve likely found yourself in what feels like an endless carousel of roundabouts. One...

If you stroll through Paris today, you might hear someone say they’re going to le week-end, that their meeting is booké,...

In France, fashion is a living reflection of the seasons — and nowhere is this more visible than in the quiet transforma...

In France, September and October are more than just the start of autumn — they’re the high season for prestige cinema. A...

French cinema has occupied a central place in the history of moving images for well over a century. From the Lumière bro...

The 21st-century digital era presents profound transformations in how we consume cinema—through algorithm-driven platfor...

The turn from summer to autumn always feels like the perfect time to dive into new stories — and this September, France ...

Every summer, as French beaches fill with striped umbrellas and the scent of sunscreen, one accessory is as essential as...

While Americans are easing out of summer with Labor Day barbecues and back-to-school sales, the French are diving headfi...