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 ...

Now a go-to trope for American Francophobes, the 1940 surrender resurfaces with every new diplomatic quarrel between our two countries. It has even become the basis for a number of jokes. “How do you ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

France-Amérique: The Americans worship their Constitution, yet the French do not. Which of the two is right? Alain Juppé: The relationship with the Constitution is vastly different on either side of ...

Juliette Gréco and Miles Davis in Paris, May 1949. © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier/Rapho Juliette Gréco was 22, the muse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, when she set eyes ...

On January 25, 1924, bright sunlight flooded the village of Chamonix and the Mont Blanc massif. One international delegation after the next took to the stand for the opening ceremony of the first ...

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 ...

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 ...