Migrants at Paris Theater Hope to Prove They’re Just Kids
The Gaîté Lyrique theater has been a jewel in Paris’s glittering cultural scene since the 19th century. It once hosted the operettas of Jacques Offenbach and performances by the Ballets…
‘Queer Eye’ Star Tan France Says Fame Couldn’t Fix UK Racism, Moved to USA Instead
‘Queer Eye’ Tan France My Fame Couldn’t Fix UK Racism … So I Left for the U.S.!!! Published January 29, 2025 3:23 PM PST “Queer Eye” star Tan France is…
France, Finally, Wins the World’s Top Food Award Again
French haute cuisine is, officially, the best in the world again. At least, that’s according to the judges of the Bocuse d’Or, a fine-dining competition held every two years. The…
At the Louvre, the Mona Lisa Will Get Her Own Room as Museum Expands
The Louvre Museum in Paris will move the Mona Lisa to a newly created exhibition space, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced on Tuesday as he unveiled sweeping plans to…
Opinion | How Europe Swung to the Right
Millions of Europeans will go to the polls this year in a test of the right-wing movements that surged in 2024’s historic elections — and of the liberal order that…
She Was Faulted in Her Divorce for Refusing Sex. A European Court Disagreed.
The couple had been together for some three decades before they divorced. She blamed his work for taking a toll on their marriage. But in 2019, a French court ruled…
How Riad Sattouf Uses His Cartoons to Draw a Window Into the Middle East
One early evening in December, the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled his country as rebel forces advanced on Damascus. In France, three days later, one of the country’s most-watched TV…
French Crypto Entrepreneur and Wife Are Freed After Kidnapping
A founder of a French cryptocurrency company and his wife were freed in France this week after being brutally kidnapped and held for ransom, the authorities announced on Thursday. David…
Bertrand Blier, Acclaimed Director of Sexually Blunt Films, Dies at 85
Bertrand Blier, an acclaimed director whose films scandalized, captivated and entertained 1970s and ’80s France with their sometimes brutal projections of French men’s sexual imaginations, died on Monday at his…
Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right
At the start of his second term President Trump has positioned himself at the crest of a global wave of hard-line conservative populism, offering fuel and inspiration to surging nationalist…