France

Reading is not the preferred choice of recreation for France’s youth

French Resistance spy Boulle took up writing almost on a whim – then created the basis for two all-time classic films

Has Macron just chosen his successor?

The latest eccentricity in the city on the Loire is the perfect illustration of its unofficial motto

As good as a fruit galette is, nothing rivals a galette des rois

After the battle comes the reckoning – even for the winners

So emblematic of the city’s spirit did she become that Mistinguett seemed timeless even in her own lifetime

With meticulous attention to food and how it is prepared, the film’s plot embraces simplicity

At the age of 75, synthesiser pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre is back with two new projects and a determination to innovate and disrupt

Dumas’s swashbuckling classic has been filmed 50 times – but the French haven’t tried since the 1960s. Until now...

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