That story is told in a new book of the same name, the work of a pair of preeminent scholars of colonial Louisiana, Nathalie ...

“Soda! Cherche la truffe.” Serge Deszars is instructing his black and white pup in the delicate art of truffle hunting. We are on a hillside among acres of hornbeam and oak. Buzzards are circling in ...

If the famed French writer Victor Hugo had visited the Château de Chambord today, it’s safe to say he would have been over-sharing it on Instagram. After travelling there for the first time, he wrote: ...

Claude Monet despaired about the scene I’m standing before. “I’m terrified when I look at my paintings,” he reputedly wrote. “They are so dark.” (My translation of the signpost here.) But I see ...

On a trip along the Vallée de la Gastronomie, one writer reconnects with the food, the wine, and the people she first fell in ...

Even before its official reveal, in that time when rumors swirled about Battlefield Labs and what might come from it, I knew I’d have to temper my enthusiasm for Battlefield 6. I’d been burned before, ...

After Starbucks announced it would be shutting hundreds of stores, its website is listing dozens in the Bay Area as being closed as of Sunday, Sept. 28. To check if a store is on the closure list, go ...

I met a fellow recently who had never been to Alsace. He’d been pretty much everywhere else – Bali, Sri Lanka, Ulaanbaatar, ...

Tucked in the Loire-et-Cher in France, Repère Sauvage sits on the grounds of Fort Girard, once the stronghold of César de ...

Paris is split into two halves – the Right and Left banks – by the storied Seine River. The city is further broken into 20 numbered arrondissements (or neighborhoods), which twirl clockwise from the ...

Sunny with a high of 89 °F (31.7 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 7 mph (9.7 to 11.3 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 55 °F (12.8 °C). Sunny today with a ...

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 visit ...