How fast do ideas and behaviors circulate between the United States and France? This question, which would make a nice dissertation topic, should have its own algorithm (if I may indulge in a ...

“Action stations, 0430 hours, the last coffee before France. The night is drawing to an end, we are stunned by the sight of everything around us. An armada stretches as far as the eye can see, ...

Launched in 1883 by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, a hotel and travel logistics company, the Orient Express was the very first luxury international train, traveling from Paris to ...

The Great Cat Massacre on the Rue Saint-Séverin was, in the words of the perpetrators, “the funniest thing that ever happened at Jacques Vincent’s printing works.” The episode took place in the Latin ...

This incursion of an American uprising in French streets is not without precedent. In 1953, the French demonstrated their support for the Rosenbergs before they were sentenced to death for espionage.

In your first novel, in 2016, you described Stromae’s suicide in a Manhattan apartment, three days after a triumphant concert at Madison Square Garden. Was this a morbid work of fiction? It has often ...

From left: François Martin, Benoît Martin, and Julie Chapon. © Alice Prenat/Portrait Madame Spending a year in New York City to conquer America was the challenge ...

Working out of a hotel room in Marseille, and later from a small office, and at great personal risk, Varian Fry and a small team of helpers succeeded in rescuing such well-known figures as Marc ...

Scott Tilton (left) and Rudy Bazenet (right) launched Louisiana’s application to join the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie in 2018 before creating the ...

The best restaurant in San Antonio, Texas, has neither fried chicken nor barbecue meat. In fact, it is a French brasserie that seems to have been teleported from a well-heeled neighborhood in a town ...

On January 7, 2015, two men armed with assault rifles entered the offices of satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo and opened fire on the journalists and cartoonists sat in an editorial meeting.

France-Amérique: In your experience, what defines French and American work cultures? Sabine Landolt and Agathe Laurent: Work culture in the United States is characterized by its flexibility and ...