Get Updates and Stay Connected - Subscribe To Our Newsletter
Provence, the First Wine Region of France
Wine has been made in Provence for a very long time. Grapevines were first planted in 600 B.C. by the Greeks who founded the city …
Edmond Locard, The Sherlock Holmes of France
With his silhouette of full-bent meerschaum pipe and deerstalker cap, Sherlock Holmes is one of the most recognized figures in popular culture. He has probably …
French artist Émile Friant
Émile Friant is a French artist whose name is little known today. Yet he was a painter of immense and widely acclaimed talent in his …
Visit to France for a wheelchair user
Julia Wingfield finds France may not be 100% perfect for wheelchair users, but its friendly folk make up for it … I wasn’t always a …
The business of religion in France
Business seems to be booming for the abbeys and monasteries in France. Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic and an economic crisis don’t appear to have slowed …
Tips for Vegetarians in France
One of the best vegetarian meals I have ever had was on a mini-break in France, my native country. It was in Carteret, a small …
Hemingway’s Garden of Eden: The French Riviera
“Imagination is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine” – …
The art of Eugène Carrière
The French artist, Eugène Carrière, was a remarkable painter who worked almost exclusively in a colour palette of browns and deep yellows, using quick, semi-dry …
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 …
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 …