The electoral system has been reformed in Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. A new regulation has been approved to overhaul the ...

Skip the lines in Paris and visit these picturesque towns and villages, where the crowds are fewer and the pace is slower.

French farmers rolled into Paris on tractors Thursday morning in a show against a free trade deal they fear will create unfair ...

The French novelist and philosophy professor Laurent Cassat is poised to unveil his debut novel, «The Residence» (published ...

The tradition of treating Henri Rousseau as someone who's lucky just to be here lives on—but the work speaks for itself.

The men’s and women’s sitting volleyball tournaments will be held from Thursday, August 29 to Saturday, September 7 during ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Kristin Ross’s The Commune Form traces a political tradition—based on reimagining class relations—that stretches from the 1871 uprising to the modern-day struggles of ZAD. A man walks past a statue of ...

Paris: City of light, city of love, and city of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables! Immortalized in its many incarnations, from the page to the stage to screens both big and small, Hugo’s Paris of 1832 ...

Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, looks back 150 years to its founding moment and to the darkness hidden behind ...

Sebastian Smee’s Paris in Ruins is an addictively good read, weaving as it does the lives of several important Impressionist painters into the traumatic and bloody events of 1870-71 in France: the ...

When the State recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their daily lives collectively. Contemporary struggles over ...