A coffee shop like no other has just opened in the heart of Manhattan, on the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 52 nd Street. In this corporate district near Rockefeller Center, Café Joyeux’s ...

Between the beginning of the German occupation in June 1940 and the Allied liberation in September 1944, the French port city of Le Havre was bombed 132 times – mostly by British planes trying to wipe ...

“You’re going on tour with Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie for the paper.” Jean-Marie Périer couldn’t believe it. He was 17 and his boss had just given him a Leica and instructions to pick up the ...

Some wear impeccably pressed western shirts, belts with big, shiny buckles, jeans, and leather boots. These are the more traditional looks. Others opt for a more casual, urban style, with tracksuits ...

Inaugurated in 1964, the longest suspension bridge in the Americas bears the name of Giovanni da Verrazzano, the navigator and envoy of France who first explored New ...

Eugene Bullard in his French aviator uniform, Paris, July 4, 1917. © Agence Rol/Bibliothèque nationale de France At the French War Veterans’ section of Flushing ...

The foghorn on the Magellan sounded in New York Bay. When the cargo ship finally emerged from the mist, 25,000 spectators exploded in cheers. Gathered in Battery Park despite the cold, they offered ...

Every month in France-Amérique, enjoy articles in a bilingual format and discover the best of French and Francophone culture in the North America. Analysis of French-American news • French cultural ...

From left: François Martin, Benoît Martin, and Julie Chapon. © Alice Prenat/Portrait Madame Spending a year in New York City to conquer America was the challenge ...

A French flag flies over Fifth Avenue in the heart of Manhattan. It marks the entrance to a six-floor mansion, a jewel of the Gilded Age. Visitors step through the wrought-iron door and walk upstairs ...

Nous Foundation co-founder and president Rudy Bazenet in New Orleans. Courtesy of Nous Foundation In October 1781, General Rochambeau refused to accept Britain’s surrender at Yorktown, pointing ...

France-Amérique: The Alliance Française was founded in Paris in 1883 by a group of diplomats and intellectuals, including Jules Verne and Louis Pasteur. Its original objective was the “propagation of ...