France

Via Aurelia: The Roman Empire's Lost Highway

French amateur archaeologist Bruno Tassan fights to preserve a neglected 2,000-year-old ancient interstate in southern Provence
June 2009 | By Joshua Hammer

Days 7 to 12: A Cannes Farewell

As Michael Parfit bids goodbye to the Cannes Film Festival, there is good news for Luna from the Canary Islands
May 25, 2009 | By Michael Parfit

A Tour of France’s Cave Homes

In France’s Loire Valley, domesticated cave dwellings, known as troglodyte homes, offer a history as rich as the region’s chateaus
May 19, 2009 | By Kristin Ohlson

Days 5 and 6: Dark Days at Cannes

The buzz surrounding a new film leaves Cannes-goers anxious, but Michael Parfit finds reasons for hope
May 19, 2009 | By Michael Parfit

Saving the Jews of Nazi France

As Jews in France tried to flee the Nazi occupation, Harry Bingham, an American diplomat, sped them to safety
March 2009 | By Peter Eisner

Snapshot: The Champagne Region

Celebrating the new year has become synonymous with drinking champagne, but the grapes are from an area steeped in history
July 2008 | By Janet Hulstrand

Larger than Life

Whether denouncing France's art establishment or challenging Napoleon III, Gustave Courbet never held back
April 2008 | By Avis Berman

A Record Find

How The Phantom of the Opera led me to a long-lost musical treasure in Paris
March 2008 | By Michael Walsh

The Louvre

January 2008 | By Alison McLean

Van Gogh in Auvers

The artist's tumultuous last days
January 2008 | By Lyn Garrity

Marseille's Ethnic Bouillabaisse

Some view Europe's most diverse city as a laboratory of the continent's future
December 2007 | By Andrew Purvis

Snapshot: Paris Underground

Tunneling into the fascinating dark underbelly of the City of Lights
November 05, 2007 | By Siobhan Roth

France's Leading Lady

Relics from her 1431 execution are a forgery. Will we ever know the real Joan of Arc?
June 01, 2007 | By Amy Crawford

Americans in Paris

In the late 19th century, the City of Light beckoned Whistler, Sargent, Cassatt and other young artists. As a new exhibition makes clear, what they experienced would transform American art
January 2007 | By Arthur Lubow

Marie Antoinette

The teenage queen, now the subject of a new movie, was embraced by France in 1770. Twenty-three years later, she lost her head to the guillotine. (But she never said, "Let them eat cake")
November 2006 | By Richard Covington

Paris, Mon Amour

For photographer Robert Doisneau, finding an openly affectionate couple in the City of Light was as easy as falling in love
July 2005 | By Rudolph Chelminski

Toulouse-Lautrec

The fin de sià¨cle artist who captured Paris' cabarets and dance halls is drawing huge crowds to a new exhibition at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art
May 2005 | By Paul Trachtman

Haute Tomato

I can forgive the French for almost anything. Except dessert
July 2003 | By Edith Pearlman

Fare-Minded Arbiter

Quelle surprise! Englishman Derek Brown presides over France's prestigious Michelin guide to haute cuisine
March 2003 | By Rudy Chelminski

Renaissance of the Gardens of Versailles

After violent storms destroyed thousands of trees in 1999, fears of disaster eased when the cleanup revealed panoramas unseen for centuries, fitting neatly into a 25-year restoration plan
July 2001 | By Richard Covington

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