Nohant, Indre: Frédéric Chopin and George Sand
The bicentenary of Chopin's birth is being celebrated with great ceremony all over the world this year.
Life in Les Halles: Emile Zola’s The Belly of Paris
A brilliant new translation of Zola's fascinating portrait of the market in Les Halles during its heyday.
Lyon Confluence
When it's completed, Lyon's Confluence project will double the size of the historic center of France's second city—a feat that would be well nigh impossible anywhere else, geographically or logistically. This month the project's...
Muddy Waters
Politics makes bitter enemies more often than strange bedfellows, and the relationship between France's president and its former prime minister is bitter indeed.
After Marie Antoinette
From the children of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette to the pretenders to the French throne today, a look at the fate of the French monarchy
Arles: The Ancient Roman City
Arles is an historical and magical city. Bordered by the Rhône, la Camargue, les Alpilles and la Crau, it seems like an island. Arles is home to numerous ancient Roman and Latin monuments listed...
Les Baux de Provence: 22 Historical Monuments
A must-see village in the heart of the Alpilles
While Les Baux de Provence is more of a tourist site rather than an active village - there are only 500 inhabitants - it still remains...
Lozere – Languedoc-Roussillon’s secret department
Discover a land of endless beauty where the great outdoors is king!
To say that the Lozere department in the northern Languedoc Roussillon has been largely overlooked by English speaking tourists would be something of...