These are the best small towns in France to visit when you're craving a slower pace, fewer crowds, and warm hospitality.

In cities like Nice, Paris, and Marseille, locals are happy to switch to English—and appreciate polite greetings more than perfect grammar. A simple “bonjour” and “merci” go a long way, and show a ...

Efforts to address entrenched gender bias in the French language ran into familiar resistance this week as lawmakers called for a ban on “gender-neutral” writing. But experts say the rearguard action ...

There are few things the French find more annoying than what they call “French bashing”—a term they use in English, despite their insistence on finding French equivalents for foreign words. When Jean ...

France is launching a six-month festival to celebrate the French language on Wednesday, the international day for Francophonie. It will culminate in a summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron in ...

PARIS − France took a big step Sunday toward its first far-right government since World War II after Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration and eurosceptic National Rally party made gains in the first round ...

The biometric ID card, introduced in August 2021, contains a microchip and a QR code. But what's really got the venerable academy’s back up is that every category has been translated in English, so it ...

Forget Euro English. Forget Globish. France is determined to make 2022 the year of the French language. Ah, je m’excuse : l’année de la langue française Seven months before taking over the EU’s ...

For the first time since its founding, France’s anti-immigration National Rally (RN) party has clawed its way to within arm’s reach of governing. The far-right party’s rise has fundamentally changed ...