The 700 sq. m pavilion will soon be built on the ground floor, designed by Freaks Architects, and is called HAMO, pronounced the same as the French word for hamlet. For Tanguy Pelletier, the ...

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 ...

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.

For centuries, there's been no official French word for what may be the country's most popular export – the "French kiss" – but that's finally been rectified. The one-word verb "galocher ...

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 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.

“Flâner” – to wander aimlessly through a city – is a concept so French that the word has no English equivalent.

If you live in France there's no way you can have failed to notice the word 'canicule' popping up on every French news site over the past week. So, for today's French Word of the Day, we look at ...

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

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 ...

For author Erika Owen, tapping into the simple act of wandering has made her more calm, creative and accepting of change.

France's "grandfather" of street art, Jacques Villeglé has died at the age of 96. He was known for his work reusing damaged posters he collected, which have been displayed in museums the world over.