With the world's eyes glued to Paris for the 2024 Olympics, six bestselling authors are sharing what they love about the City of Light. And just like the Olympics themselves, these authors represent a range of countries, hailing from the United States ...

Too many places have lost their love of print. But the French capital is a haven for anyone who wants to lose themselves in a thriller or even teach their children to read. The richness of Paris’s reputation as a centre of literary creation veers close ...

PARIS >> A water leak last month damaged hundreds of books in the Egyptian antiquities department at the Louvre, underscoring the deteriorating state of the world’s most visited museum just weeks after a daring jewel heist exposed security flaws.

"Paris isn't for changing planes, it's … it's for changing your outlook, for … for throwing open the windows and letting in … letting in la vie en rose." Audrey Hepburn offered those sage words about the City of Light to Humphrey Bogart in the ...

Albertine Books hosts events encouraging intellectual dialogue across cultural and geographic boundaries, such as this 2022 talk by author and Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux. Getty Images for Albertine Books At the four-week mark, however, Paris lost its ...

1. The bustling markets of Les Halles, affectionately known as the Belly of Paris, are a fixture of French culinary lore. This vibrant ecosystem, which has evolved considerably from an expansive collection of food stalls centuries ago, is at the heart of ...

IN 1742 France had sixty-nine censors, including one for geography and navigation. In 1810 Napoleon, against all advice, reinstituted censorship, but soon had reason to complain, “ I blush for the Nation, my censor is indeed inept!”; and in 1815, on ...

While the Louvre in Paris is still smarting over problems in its security system, hundreds of historic books have been damaged by a water leak. Once again the upkeep of France’s Louvre Museum has hit the headlines,