A coffee shop like no other has just opened in the heart of Manhattan, on the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 52 nd Street. In this corporate district near Rockefeller Center, Café Joyeux’s ...

Paris, Avignon, and now Manhattan! At the age of 41, Cyril Dewavrin has already taken over or set up three bookstores in France. For his fourth, he decided to cross the Atlantic. Last December, he ...

Inaugurated in 1964, the longest suspension bridge in the Americas bears the name of Giovanni da Verrazzano, the navigator and envoy of France who first explored New ...

Eugene Bullard in his French aviator uniform, Paris, July 4, 1917. © Agence Rol/Bibliothèque nationale de France At the French War Veterans’ section of Flushing ...

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 ...

How do you choose the chefs? There are no strict rules. Some hold the Meilleur Ouvrier de France title, others have received a Bocuse d’Or award, and others still have won nothing at all! Some have ...

Nous Foundation co-founder and president Rudy Bazenet in New Orleans. Courtesy of Nous Foundation In October 1781, General Rochambeau refused to accept Britain’s surrender at Yorktown, pointing ...

The Molitor swimming pool was designed by Lucien Pollet and inaugurated in 1929. Restored to its original condition, the building – now home to a luxury hotel ...

French players Victor Wembanyama (left) and Bilal Coulibaly on the day they were drafted into the NBA, June 22, 2023. © Brian Babineau/NBAE/Getty Images The lunch ...

It’s an understatement to say that wine is deeply ingrained in French culture. For centuries, its virtues have been lauded by everyone from kings and politicians to writers and humorists. Even the ...

Edith Piaf’s life was a blend of joy and disaster, and her time in New York City was no different. It was in this city that she married the singer Jacques Pills on July 29, 1952. She regularly ...

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 ...