The French word terroir, the distinguishing marks of the soil in which wine is made, applies to art as much as to wine. Art too is indubitably local, material, inseparable from its context.

Algeria, technically a part of metropolitan France since 1848, was the only part of France to hold no election this week. But it was not forgotten: Algeria was the central, most heated issue in ...

If there is anything not quite French about General Charles de Gaulle, it is his impatience with paper work. Rather than rely on secondhand reports, he prefers to find things out for himself. Last ...

The Citroen 2CV is one of the most iconic cars ever to come out of France, but nobody had ever seen one quite like Michel Robillard's handcrafted masterpiece.

The gift makes the Art Institute one of the leading exhibitors of French art outside France, if not the leading exhibitor, based on the breadth and depth of its holdings.

In May Word for Word’s Production of George Saunders HOME will go to France, on May 10 to Angers and May 16 to Paris. This follows a run in San francisco where Words for Words’ first season ...

In English, the Matrix series inspired the phrase 'taking the red pill' and in French it inspired this word.

France will lend Britain the Bayeux Tapestry, allowing the 11th century masterpiece to come back across the Channel for the ...

Finger markings discovered inside a cave in France are “organised and intentional” and were likely made by Neanderthals more than 57,000 years ago, scientists have said. Thought to be the ...

France has passed a law making it easier to return works of art seized by Nazi Germany during World War II to their Jewish owners or heirs.

57,000-year-old Neanderthal wall art uncovered in France The finger markings are organised and intentional and thought to be the oldest known engravings by Neanderthals.