10 Things Americans Dislike About France (Perfectly Normal to French People)
You spend months dreaming about Paris. You pack the right shoes. You’ve watched enough French films to feel like you…
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Hantavirus Reached France Without Anyone Boarding the Ship
A Dutch couple went birdwatching in Argentina in January. By May, a French citizen was in isolation. Nobody in France…
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The French Town Built Inside a Cliff That Most Travelers Have Never Heard Of
The Dordogne’s big draws pull travelers straight to the Vézère Valley with its prehistoric caves, clifftop châteaux, the usual postcard…
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The French Town That Makes Provence Feel Overrated
Uzès sits in the Gard département, just west of Provence – officially in Occitanie, though nobody told the architecture. The…
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The Musée d’Orsay Still Holds 225 Paintings Stolen From Jewish Families
Walk through the Musée d’Orsay on any given afternoon and you’ll pass hundreds of small metal labels. Most people read…
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What the Paris Bouquinistes Won’t Tell You
The green boxes lining the Seine look like they’ve always been there. In a way, they have. The bouquinistes –…
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These Airlines Are Canceling Flights to France This Summer (Or Adding New Charges)
Budget airlines started pulling back from France well before jet fuel became a problem. In early 2025, France hiked its…
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Paris Is Honoring The American Vogue Model Who Photographed Hitler’s Bathtub
In 2024, Kate Winslet starred in a film called “Lee” about an American woman most people had never heard of….
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How Poland Went From Europe’s Underdog To Its Trillion-Dollar Success Story
Poland joined the European Union on May 1, 2004. At the time, the country had a 19% unemployment rate and…
