Are French women superior at raising children? Dita De Boni delves into the debate started by feminist Elisabeth Badinter.

Rarely can a country have greeted its own national team's humiliation in the World Cup with such grim satisfaction.

Attention to detail is the all-important ingredient in the business of making champagne, says Francois Hautekeur.

Images of the writer and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - probably taken just before his death - have surfaced in France.

Troubled by dysfunction in the Franco-German alliance, European leaders head towards a summit on Friday.

The Independent's Nick Duerden wonders why the UK has such different views on children in restaurants to the rest of Europe.

After the excesses of his epic World War I tale A Very Long Engagement, Jeunet seems to have to returned to the imaginative worlds of his earlier works.

Stephanie Beck discovers endless ways to savour the delicacy.

The euro is the latest crisis in modern German history...

The rugby star accused of modern day slavery in France says the claims made against him are fabricated.

Our taste for haute cuisine and fine wine is nothing new, writes The Independent's Ferdinand Mount.

Finau Maka has been accused of treating a young Tunisian man living with his family with 'utter indignity'.

Venus Williams has been playing at the French Open in a revealing black lace dress with a plunging neckline and bright red straps.