The French excel when it comes to patisserie and haute couture, but are supposedly terrible in warfare with lily-livered soldiers going from one defeat to the next. This cliché has been peddled in the ...

Juliette Gréco was 22, the muse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, when she set eyes on the trumpetist, the up-and-coming “Picasso of jazz.” In May 1949, the International Jazz Festival was reborn in Paris ...

Time spent in France with Sohmers led the way to many felicitous encounters. One of Sontag’s first friends and guides to Parisian cultural life was Annette Michelson, an American art critic for The ...

France-Amérique: French culture in the United Sates is usually associated with Louisiana rather than with Alabama.When did the French arrive in what is now Alabama? Steve Murray: Mobile predates New ...

In Disturbance, the French writer and journalist describes his slow reconstruction after being severely wounded in the terrorist attack against newspaper Charlie Hebdo. A deeply moving account the ...

While the French press enthusiastically covered the young pioneer’s career, America remained silent. Only the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), The ...

Twelve million Americans speak French. But who are they? And what is their experience? These are the questions asked by Kathleen Stein-Smith and Fabrice Jaumont, champions of the French language in ...

Between 1885 and 1970, more than 115,000 Bretons left their region, fleeing poverty, to try their luck in America. The Great Depression, two World Wars, and immigration quotas have marked more than a ...

On the estate created by Louis XIV, the former residence of the Controller-General of Finances is now home to a luxury hotel. Offering dinners, brunches, a spa, a swimming pool, and private tours of ...

As well as being a dancer, a freedom fighter, and an antiracist activist, Josephine Baker was also a loving mother – a side of her portrayed in her children’s bedrooms.After several miscarriages, and ...

France-Amérique: The Americans worship their Constitution, yet the French do not.Which of the two is right? Alain Juppé: The relationship with the Constitution is vastly different on either side of ...

“Why was this funny at the time, but no longer today?” asked Robert Darnton, a professor at Harvard. In 1980, the American historian and printing specialist came across this anecdote, and studied it ...