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Assigned to the French Army, the 369 th Infantry Regiment was often placed on the frontline for the bloodiest battles, and was the American military unit that spent the most time in combat during ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mountain guide Roger Frison-Roche was secretary of these first Winter Games. Fifty years later, the emblematic local figure and author of the First on the Rope saga wrote that “even now […], such a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Everything changed at the start of the 20 th century thanks to Marie Joseph Lucien Gabriel Folco, Marquis de Baroncelli, born in Aix-en-Provence in 1869 to an old Florentine family who moved to ...

France-Amérique: In your experience, what defines French and American work cultures?. Sabine Landolt and Agathe Laurent: Work culture in the United States is characterized by its flexibility and ...

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 ...