NEW YORK — Just in time for spring, a section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been transformed into a sort of 19th century palm garden encircled by colorful galleries featuring still lifes, ...

The French Jewish heritage is a rich mosaic reflecting a history of perseverance, intellectual vigor, and cultural diversity. Dating back to Roman times, Jewish communities settled in what is now ...

“French Santee, A Huguenot Settlement in Colonial South Carolina,” by award-winning authors Susan Baldwin Bates and Harriott Cheves Leland, is now available. Susan Bates and Cheves Leland share a love ...

What drives a man to fight and die for a country not his own? Jean-Vincent Blanchard takes up this question in his lyrical, detailed history of the French Foreign Legion. His book chronicles the ...

In a game of word association French Revolution would rapidly be met with “guillotine”. Such is the event’s popular image, especially in Anglo-Saxon culture, where it remains characterised by guts and ...

InIn one of its four-part series of investigative reports on France’s exploitation of Haiti over the course of the 19th century, published in English, Creole and French, The New York Times focuses on ...

Although the two nations are separated by little more than 30 miles of water, the gulf between the French music industry and British hearts has seemed unbridgeable at times. For many Anglophone ...