French Connection

EARLY IN ROSECRANS Baldwin’s bittersweet memoir detailing his eighteen-month stint working in the French capital, he unabashedly announces that he has almost always held the conviction that the City of Lights was civilization’s summit: “For a long time I’d thought Paris had the world’s best everything. Girls, food, the crumble-down buildings. Even the very dust was arousing.” The Parisian life, he goes on to say, served as “an umbrella, a dream I carried around in case the weather turned bad.”

European planemaker Airbus unveiled plans to open a factory on Boeing's home turf Monday, a gambit that would see the firm roll out its first US-built plane by 2016.
The new $600 million assembly plant, to be built in the southern port city of Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf of Mexico, will produce the popular A320 family passenger planes.
Airbus estimates 4,600 new single-aisle aircraft will be needed in the United States over the next 20 years and the new US plant could more than double its share in the huge market.

As independent bookstores in the United States and Britain struggle, French booksellers continue to prosper.

Bay Bread Group's La Boulange Cafe & Bakery, the San Francisco bake shop known for its French pastries and sandwich menu, was sold Monday for $100 million to Starbucks Coffee Co. La Boulange's founder, Pascal Rigo, will...

French nationals in the United States and in Canada will soon elect a deputy to represent them in the National Assembly of France, and in New York, the campaigning has taken on a distinctly local feel.

When you are an American living in France, there are a few things that you can be sure of: 1) You will compare your adopted country to your home country. 2) You will miss home, and eventually miss the other when you are home.

Olivier Sarkozy, the half-brother of former French President Nicholas Sarkozy and more importantly the boyfriend of Mary-Kate Olsen, has purchased a 4,200 square-foot townhouse in the East Village.

He was a star in Europe, but Thierry Henry finds himself comfortably out of the spotlight in the coffee shops and restaurants of New York.

As if their ability to consume all kinds of bread, cheese and chocolate and still not get fat isn’t enviable enough, French women have yet another reason to make their American counterparts jealous: their relationships. According to Debra Ollivier, author of What French Women Know: About Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind, French women enjoy a satisfaction in their romantic relationships that we here in the States can only dream about. In order to give women on this side of the Atlantic a leg up in the love department, we asked Ollivier for her thoughts on what their romance and dating practices so wildly successful — and what American women can do to capture a little of that je ne sais quoi themselves.

For the first time, French foreign nationals living in the United States and Canada have elected a deputy to represent them in France's National Assembly: Corinne Narassiguin, a 13-year resident of New York City.

An American diet company is trying to convince the French that portion-controlled boeuf bourguignon is not just another assault on their culture.

President Hollande paid a visit to the D-Day memorial in Caen, France, on Wednesday, as part of official activities marking the 68th anniversary of the Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy that would free France from occupation and help bring about the end of the Second World War.

An unprecedented box office success in France, where it became the second most successful French film of all time, The Intouchables tells the...