To contextualize the topic of gender equality and consider its numerous aspects, France-Amérique recently interviewed two of the women who will be speaking at the symposium organized by the French ...

Working out of a hotel room in Marseille, and later from a small office, and at great personal risk, Varian Fry and a small team of helpers succeeded in rescuing such well-known figures as Marc ...

Juliette Gréco and Miles Davis in Paris, May 1949. © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier/Rapho Juliette Gréco was 22, the muse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, when she set eyes ...

France-Amérique: In your experience, what defines French and American work cultures? Sabine Landolt and Agathe Laurent: Work culture in the United States is characterized by its flexibility and ...

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: French culture in the United Sates is usually associated with Louisiana rather than with Alabama. When did the French arrive in what is now Alabama? Steve Murray: Mobile predates New ...

In its most recent annual report, the department of economic affairs at the embassy of France in Washington D.C. offers a detailed review of the footprint of French companies in the United States: – ...

France-Amérique: You write that Rousseau’s The Social Contract (1762) had a significant influence on the Founding Fathers of the United States. How did they discover Rousseau’s work? Leo Damrosch: ...

The Great Cat Massacre on the Rue Saint-Séverin was, in the words of the perpetrators, “the funniest thing that ever happened at Jacques Vincent’s printing works.” The episode took place in the Latin ...

To the contemporary American mind, the name Susan Sontag evokes an entire era and its sensibilities: the social movements of the 1960s, pop art and camp style, second-wave feminism, the AIDS epidemic, ...

“At one point in Louisiana and Maine, speaking French was enough for the Ku Klux Klan to plant a burning cross in front of your house,” says Fabrice Jaumont, education attaché for the French embassy ...

“Forget about fish and lambs; that doesn’t work here.” Jacques Dahan knows what he is talking about. The Frenchman eats chocolate every day, and has headed up the U.S. branch of the Normandy-based ...