The pearl of France’s Basque coast, Biarritz has long been a playground for European high society. Today, the town and its ...

For an offbeat way to experience France’s bike culture and have fun, try visiting during the annual “May by Bike” festivities. The country celebrates “the little queen” (French slang for ...

Potatoes were once so despised they were linked to leprosy. What changed? It's a tale of propaganda, survival, and ordinary ...

This story appears in the December 2024 issue of National Geographic magazine. Robert Kunzig lived in France for 12 years and returned to cover the final stages of Notre Dame’s reconstruction ...

Several train companies are vying to run services across the channel, adding new routes to the continent and ending Eurostar’s monopoly.

A literary language between the 10th and 15th centuries, it was widely spoken in Occitania, a historic geographic area covering southern France and Monaco, northeastern Spain, and northwestern Italy.

Before true crime and reality TV, there was the Paris Morgue—where crowds queued to see the dead. It was the first of its ...

He’s been a National Geographic underwater photographer since ... a little boy named Laurent Ballesta was dreaming of the oceans in France. And he was about to take these words to heart in ...

The Definitive Inside Story," the 90-minute film will feature never-before-seen footage from director Steven Spielberg's ...