France

I’m happy to come from a family where all we need to have a great time is some grilled meat, a few cans of cheap beer and each other’s company

Young farmers are bringing the distilling business back into fashion

There are many interpretations of its meaning. Are we witness to a dark memory, a sexual desire or a surrealist Pinocchio?

The social media site is a mess. The Mayor of Paris has just left it, and as more high profile individuals leave, it will fade into irrelevance

A journey on the Paris Métro can be a kaleidoscope of cultures, stories and impromptu musical performances

Colour photography pioneer Ernst Haas created a new iconography for the city by blurring the space between art and photojournalism

There was no other with his extraordinary improvising in the medium

Ridley Scott’s epic didn’t exactly win over viewers in France

Malle’s unique approach to cinema meant he was always on the hunt for ways to freshen things up, no matter the risk

Young people’s snubbing of a massive Paris rally against antisemitism must sound a warning for Europe’s left

Fifty years ago at the Palace of Versailles, French and American designers went head-to-head as the likes of Liza Minelli, Princess Grace, Andy Warhol and Rudolf Nureyev looked on

Back in 1975, the experience of travelling abroad broadened my mind – a foreign concept for Mark Francois

This Joaquin Phoenix epic fails to nail its big idea, or the motivation of its subject

The rising tensions were far from an ideal atmosphere for an international sporting competition

Why twisty French thriller Anatomy of a Fall is tipped to win the Best Picture Oscar

A new exhibition in Basel aims to put women at the centre of the previously male-dominated Fauvism movement

The opening of the International French Language Centre embraces the evolution of the language in a globalised world

The French philosopher and writer, born on November 7, 1913, was a publisher’s dream

Macron says “non”

The award-winning story of how a psychiatric facility on a River Seine barge helps to keep its patients afloat

Never a religious man, at the end of his life converting a damp garage into a chapel became an unlikely obsession

Following in the footsteps of 20th-century exiles who ran from communism, four artists are fighting their own war, from Paris

In France, businesses, societies and individuals move slower – sometimes a lot slower – than lawmakers

It was the Franco-British aircraft that flew too close to the sun. But could supersonic travel now make a surprise comeback?

Every year, a French beauty spot devotes a weekend to UK movies. An eccentric outlier or a harbinger of a new post-Brexit entente cordiale?

We are actually fond of the British royal family – we just refuse to be showy about it

For all his unorthodox methods and opinions, Breton never lost a desire to create and foster an entirely new mentality

“My life didn’t please me, so, I created my life,” she once said, and it was with scissors that she did so

When it comes to climate change, King Charles is a hypocrite. But at least, unlike Rishi Sunak, he tells the truth about the issue

In Crécy, chroniclers understand that history is not just drama: it’s humdrum everyday life

The King's historic visit went like clockwork and sent a message to Brexiteers

Critics call it Islamophobic – but Emmanuel Macron’s ban on the abaya, the long Islamic dress, in schools has won surprising support