Cécilia Jourdan has a megawatt smile. Like a Champagne flute filled to the brim, she’s tall and ebullient. She speaks with conviction, whether she’s discussing the Hello French NYC community or her ...

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: You write that Rousseau’s The Social Contract (1762) had a significant influence on the Founding Fathers of the United States. How did they discover Rousseau’s work? Leo Damrosch: ...

Visitors will be struck as they arrive at the château in the Périgord Noir region. The layers of early-morning mist still hang over the tall towers, designed in fifteenth-century Renaissance and ...

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 ...

“The change was sparked by the French television industry realizing how important it was to develop their screenwriting,” says François Truffart, director of the Colcoa French Film Festival, which ...

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 ...

Scott Tilton (left) and Rudy Bazenet (right) launched Louisiana’s application to join the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie in 2018 before creating the ...

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 ...

France-Amérique: In your experience, what defines French and American work cultures? Sabine Landolt and Agathe Laurent: Work culture in the United States is characterized by its flexibility and ...

The foghorn on the Magellan sounded in New York Bay. When the cargo ship finally emerged from the mist, 25,000 spectators exploded in cheers. Gathered in Battery Park despite the cold, they offered ...

France-Amérique: French culture in the United Sates is usually associated with Louisiana rather than with Alabama. When did the French arrive in what is now Alabama? Steve Murray: Mobile predates New ...