Poor public transport connections mean that in many parts of France, a car is vital for everyday life, as journalist and countryside-dweller Samantha David explains.

After becoming an empty nester, I left my life behind in the US to buy a farmhouse in rural France. I've run into many issues, from finding a cow in my pool to paying for expensive home repairs.

What would it take to convince you to pack up your life in Houston and relocate to a medieval French village that even most people in France have never heard of ...

One corner of France is so tucked away that even the French find it hard to place on a map. The Béarn region has a long and colorful history, from Roman times to the Renaissance to the days of Belle ...

See why Versailles is considered one of the greatest achievements in 17th-century French art. Paris sits at the crossroads of the country’s famous regions like the Loire (“Valley of the Kings”) and ...