France is a country where history still feels alive, with centuries of culture, power, war, and art leaving their mark across ...

On August 25th, 1944—the day Paris was liberated—General de Gaulle delivered one of the most important speeches in the history of modern France. Its conclusion: “We, who have lived the greatest hours ...

Graham Robb writes history on two wheels and in four dimensions. Almost 30,000 miles of “gentle cycling for weeks on end” have fed his delightfully off-center books about the French past and the ...

Ten years after the riots that hit France in 2005, there has been much debate about how far France has moved on from the images of burning cars, disaffected youth and urban apocalypse. At the time, ...