This summer, I had a last-minute – and rather serendipitous – chance to spend 48 hours alone in the South of France. What ...

From Mongolia to southern Brazil, forests big enough to cover France have grown back during the last 20 years, but the gains ...

A school in Oise, north of Paris, will be temporarily closed after the discovery of COVID cases on the premises, said the local authority for Oise on Monday.

Instead of a cash prize, entrants can instead win the chance to be buried in one of the French capital’s most celebrated cemeteries.

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A longtime Paris resident shares why walking or taking the metro beats taxis every time—and how locals really get around the City of Light.

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...

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Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

This may surprise visitors who find their way to this otherwise modest Basque town in southwestern France. It shouldn’t. Bayonne played a pivotal role in the spread of the cocoa confection through ...

Despite being Europe's highest coastal village perched at 800 metres, Sainte-Agnes is overlooked thanks to nearby, ...

PARIS (AP) — The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty crown jewels — long admired at home, little known abroad — to global fame. One ...