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

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, ...

There are seven World Cup titles among the eight teams that are left in the quarterfinals of the 2026 tournament. France has two of them and is seeking to tie Argentina with its third World Cup win.

On February 10, 1970, an avalanche crashes down on a ski resort in Val d’Isere, France, killing 42 people, mostly young skiers. This disaster was the worst such incident in French history. The resort ...