Dear Notre-Dame, I understand that only the pope is infallible and that his eyes can’t be everywhere, but the next time you’re printing up a poster to place in front of the most visited monument [...]

In which the author visits Biarritz, meets a French surfing legend, learns the history of surfing in France, zips up a wetsuit, takes a surfing lesson and eventually glides along with the 3-year-olds. Includes photos.

Accompanying France Revisited’s examination of surfing and museums in Biarritz, here are five notable hotels in the mid and upper price ranges, i.e. 3-,4- and 5-star hotels, including the history of the imperial residence that launched Biarritz as an international resort destination.

Preparing France Revisited’s Cranky Issue has made me one happy editor. My call for cantankerous texts from residents and travelers willing to demonstrate that all is not beautiful, tasty, sunny and cheerful in the City [...]

The guidebooks describe the pleasures of sightseeing in Paris, typically under sunny skies, but ignore the cold, gray, back-aching shuffle through the crowds of the kind that longtime resident Ellen Labelle experienced while visiting Montmartre with friends.

One doesn’t usually think of this low dense city having much in the way of a skyline, but Paris is now in the well advanced planning stages for the most significant changes to the city’s architectural profile in 40 years.

France Revisited gets into the musical spirit this week with a quick little writing contest whose winner will receive a set of tickets to the April 11 performance of Sinfonietta Paris Chamber Orchestra, a new [...]

OMG! They were right all along! There is no such thing as global warming. It’s a lie, an invention of socialists looking for an excuse to have government regulate everything and of their scientist lackeys [...]