France in Focus gets a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the Académie française, the temple of the French language.

Alain Guiraudie, the French writer-director, shapes his penchant for queer subject matter into something that owes much to ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. Amy Jordan needed to scare the daylights out of the reader early in her new thriller, The Dark Hours. She wanted them to share the terrors experienced by a young ...

France's education ministry has cancelled an order for "Beauty and the Beast" with modern illustrations, saying a cartoonist's 21st-century version including a police sniffer dog and smartphones was i ...

A groundbreaking exhibition, “Paris Noir,” has launched at the Pompidou Center in Paris. It will highlight the works of 150 ...

Mention the name “Victor Hugo” and most people immediately think of his masterpiece Les Misérables, famously adapted into the ...

The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build a mega collider by 2070. Critics say the plan could lead to its ...

A French politician has suggested the U.S. is no longer worthy of keeping the Statue of Liberty. The White House brushed back ...