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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

and the Apollo 11 command module at the National Air and Space Museum. Le Louvre, Paris, France The Louvre was a medieval fortress and the palace of the kings of France before becoming a museum ...