A French proverb highlights the profound and lasting impact of love's pain, contrasting it with the fleeting nature of its ...

THE STUDENT PILOT KNEW HE HADN'T PERFORMED WELL, and back on the ground he waited for a chewing out by his flight instructor. Instead, the exasperated instructor marched him over to another officer on ...

A traditional French proverb uses the image of an almond and its shell to explain why success often requires perseverance, ...

The French, God love them, are protesting in the millions over President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to increase the retirement age for government pensions from, wait, 62 to 64—even as Americans must ...

A studio visit with Jessie Homer French is not for the faint of heart . . . or stomach. From the suburban sprawl of Palm Desert, it’s a ten-mile climb up the Roy Wilson Memorial Highway, whose hairpin ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? “I feel instinctively that Providence has created France for complete ...

I’m reading a fascinating book, “French Kids Eat Everything,” by Karen Le Billon. It’s a highly accessible memoir by a North American woman who moved to her French husband’s home village in Brittany, ...

This column was written by John Nichols. French voters have set up a race worth watching for one of the highest-profile presidencies on the planet. A pair of relatively young and dynamic candidates, ...