Do you dream of a stress free holiday where babies, toddlers, kids and adults can all relax and enjoy the perfect family getaway? Where you have your own private heated pool, private swim spa and an essential baby kit ready and waiting? Or maybe you have a big birthday, […]
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The Cote d’Azur is lovely, but for this writer the heart and soul of the South of France is the Languedoc. This region in the south-west is truly special – full of history, with exceptional food and wine, and it’s a lot less touristy than the […]
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From the outside, France presently appears a country in crisis. On the inside, the French are eating. Simple as that. Irritations come and go, but it is the mark of a great nation to pursue its destiny regardless. In France this includes perfecting roast pigeon, finding […]
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Home to calvados, cider, and Camembert, this charming little corner of France once welcomed in the country’s renegade Impressionists and still holds some secrets—if you know where to look. Populated with apple orchards, calvados-swilling locals, and many a wheel of Camembert, Normandy is impossibly bucolic. Like […]
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Paris’s oldest covered passageway, Passage des Panoramas in the Second Arrondissement, has taken shape as a gastronomic incubator of sorts over the past decade. Stone-paved and glass-roofed, the pedestrian arcade opened in 1799 and has housed stationery stores, printers and specialty shops ever since. The newest […]
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It’s celebrated for its enduringly popular brandy, but the charming French town of Cognac, set in exquisite, rolling countryside, is also blessed with wonderful wine and food, and it’s all within very easy reach of Paris by train, and the UK with direct flights to […]
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Another day, another Mona Lisa theory. The world’s most famous painting has mystified and captivated us for centuries, and it won’t stop here. The latest theory is that the model for the Mona Lisa is actually two people: Lisa Gherardini, and Gian Giacomo Caprotti, da Vinci’s […]
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Originally published on The New York Times By DOREEN CARVAJAL Ten years after he gave up in exasperation trying to build a museum for his vast contemporary-art collection, François Pinault, founder of a luxury-goods empire, has finally found a French home. The 18th-century Bourse de Commerce, next […]
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Paris has changed a lot over the past 10 millennia: the earliest evidence of human habitation dates back to around 9,800 years ago, when Mesolithic hunter-gatherers made their home in what is now the 15th arrondissement. Excavations at Bercy turned up fragments of three wooden […]
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Dating from around 4,800 BC, one of the earliest megalithic monuments in Europe is the Neolithic cairn at Barnenez in Brittany. It predates the oldest ancient Egyptian pyramids by more than two millennia, and is considered to be the oldest extant building in the world.
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