The French language now has an official home. The Cité Internationale de la Langue Française, open to the public since November 1, is the first cultural center devoted entirely to the language spoken ...

Paris, Avignon, and now Manhattan! At the age of 41, Cyril Dewavrin has already taken over or set up three bookstores in France. For his fourth, he decided to cross the Atlantic. Last December, he ...

A few days later, the 700 boxcars of the Friendship Train rolled down Broadway. “America has always had a thing for France, that’s just a fact,” said Pierre Lazareff, director of the France-Soir ...

Fashion has followed in the footsteps of the winter sports sales potential. “We are witnessing an important shift,” says Sophie Lacoste Dournel, co-president of the Fusalp brand. Founded in Annecy in ...

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Spending a year in New York City to conquer America was the challenge accepted by the three founders of French start-up Yuka, who moved to Brooklyn a few months ago.“We gave ourselves a year to test ...

Last year’s cultural highlights in France ran the gamut from a blockbuster Picasso exhibition to a musical about Al Capone. But the most popular event was surely the publication of yet another ...

The Society of the Cincinnati, together with its French partner of the same name, was founded in 1783 by American and French veterans of the War of Independence to keep the historic struggle in the ...

Edith Piaf was France’s undisputed national chanteuse during the 1950s, while simultaneously leading a successful career in the United States. With her little black dress, intense stare, and vocals ...

How do you explain the global success of this approach, particularly in the United States? Thierry Coljon: Stromae is convinced that you can be a global success while singing in French, and he’s an ...

In a stark contrast to the daily lives of those who distill it, Chartreuse continued its American ascension. In 2007, it made a surprise appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s movie Death Proof.Playing a ...

Better than before the pandemic! The French tourism sector achieved a spectacular recovery in 2022. Totaling 57.9 billion euros, spending by international visitors was 2.1% higher than in 2019, ...