At Louis Vuitton today, the show notes suggested a virtual reality traveller.

After art connoisseur Ambroise Vollard died in a 1939 car crash, only a small part of his vast collection was ever accounted for.

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.

France's most prestigious newspaper is up for grabs.

Geoff Cumming cruises the waterways of France and has a cliched but perfect experience.

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.