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How to be French Part 1
Many people will say well you’re French if you’re born French – but is it really as simple as that? And what makes French people
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Je ne regrette rien moving to France
In February 2004, on a cold and sleety February morning, I boarded a ferry at Dover and watched the famous White Cliffs fade as I
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A visit to the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Whether you simply pass the imposing, turned inside out, building or are viewing it from one of Paris’ look out points like the iconic Eiffel
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Raft of the Medusa, Louvre Museum
The French masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa is an emotionally wrenching painting that depicts a notorious real-life human tragedy: the appalling suffering of people
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Guide to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
The Cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres is located some fifty miles southwest of Paris on a small hill overlooking the city of Chartres. The Cathedral and
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The art of rural women’s work
The French female artist Thérèse Marthe Françoise Cotard-Dupré captured the working lives of everyday women in the countryside of north-western France. One of her finest
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Art Nouveau splendours in Nancy
The world’s most comprehensive and coherent collection of astonishing Art Nouveau artefacts can be found not in Paris, but in one house in the French
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A fateful adventure in France
Moving to France. It’s a topic that has spawned countless stories, films, and books. Each one is filled with amusing, heart-warming, and just as often
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An insider’s guide to Annecy and its mountain resorts
From the age of four, Louis Andrews grew up in the small Aravis ski resort of Manigod (part of the large La Clusaz ski area),
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The most unusual walk in France | Chartreuse
Travel writer Katja Gaskell goes walk about in the mountains where the sound of music echoes… The sun is hanging low in the sky when
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