Nearby the Chateau of Louis XIV, the Saint-Louis quarter is also well worth a visit. Discover it in pictures.
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No one knows where the tradition started... but for years now, lovers on holiday have been marking their commitment to each other by leaving padlocks chained to bridges in some of the world's most romantic cities. And Paris, the c..
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The drink of choice in Normandy has always been good local cider -- but now a Briton who's set up shop in the French region has started brewing English bitter instead, and he's rapidly winning a local following.
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A gem of French cultural heritage, over the space of a few decades Chaumont has become a reference in the fields of landscape design and contemporary art. A means of reviving its prestigious past.
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The Isle of Batz is like an enchanted garden rising from the water opposite Roscoff. Dunes, marshes, sand and pebble beaches, exotic gardens and cultivated fields all add up to a mosaic of authentic charm.
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Patrick Roger is no ordinary chocolatier. Not satisfied with selling chocolates to his customers, he's begun shaping the foodstuff into sculptures weighing up to 80 kilos each. His work has won him recognition across France and in..
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First attempted in the Haute-Savoie département in the late 1970s, paragliding now counts some 35,000 enthusiasts in France alone. Paragliders are passionate about this pursuit which allows them to discover some of the country’s m..
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Wheelchair users will be able to get to the first floor of the Eiffel Tower for the first time, thanks to an upgrade of access facilities at the tourist attraction -- part of a raft of new features designed to add more appeal and ..
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f you want to get away from it all, why not travel straight up. A new kind of hotel is catching on in France -- where your room is a cabin lodged high in the forest canopy. AFPTV went to stay in the rough-and-ready accommodation t..
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AFPTV meets up with a legend of the street art community -- Frenchman Jérôme Mesnager, whose white humanoid figures have been gracing urban walls around the world for some 30 years.
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Plenty of people keep a modest wine cellar to store some of their best vintages. But one French connoissoeur has taken things to the next level: his passion for fine wine has led to the accumulation of some 40,000 bottles includin..
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French painter and poet Jean Cocteau's residence on the Cote d'Azur, decorated by the master himself, is being opened to the public.
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Goose foie-gras, a typical product of French cuisine, is made from the livers of geese which have been force-fed, a traditional process which many French producers fear may be in danger of disappearing. That's because the main ing..
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Until recently, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie was just a quiet, pretty medieval village in south-central France. That was before a TV programme dubbed it "France's favourite village". Since then, things have never been the same -- ..
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Caviar has a reputation for being out of the reach of most kitchen budgets. But now a French caviar house is trying to bring it, if not to the masses, at least to a wider audience -- by running regular caviar workshops which give ..
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An inspiring medieval city prized by artists, Aigues-Mortes is an excellent home port from which one can plot a course amongst the birds, bulls and horses of the Petite Camargue.
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The Palais de la Berbie in Albi, France, holds the world’s largest collection of art by the French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Shortly before renovation of the museum ended, curator Danièle Devynck showed us so..
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A new and colourful art installation is taking over Paris's Grand Palais -- a forest of coloured circles balanced on thin black-and-white pillars, designed by French artist Daniel Buren. It's all part of this year's "Monument..
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Nestling at the foot of Mont Aigoual in the hollow of a remote valley, Aulas is simply lovely. Sweet onions and Reinette de Vigan apples ripen beyond the well-preserved stones of this former textile manufacturing town irrigated by..
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After ten years of renovation work, the Palais de la Berbie - the palace that houses the museum dedicated to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) - has been completely transformed. Situated in the heart of the French painter’s ho..
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