Folk tales offer a kind of fabular impersonality, where an author’s voice is lost in a wider fiction machine or culture of storytelling. That form of multi-voiced impersonality played a big part in ...

Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and autonomy is being cited widely in France; one politician demanded that an ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

Credit: Getty Images Per the Danish Royal Family, King Christian VIII, who ruled Denmark from 1839 to 1848, collected the ancient stones while visiting Italy with his wife Queen Caroline Amalie.

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an easy daytrip that's especially popular with travelers interested in seeing Monet's house and gardens or the D-Day Beaches. But if you only ...

Today, Les Grands Boulevards house two of France's favorite department stores: Au Printemps and Galeries Lafayette. Farther north, visitors experience a lesson in contrast. Place Pigalle ...

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...