Interviews

Novelist Kate Mosse speaks about Carcassonne and her second novel in a series set there during the Wars of Religion 

Samantha David climbs into the control tower in Limoges to discover all about the role of an air traffic controller in France

Patricia Cadolle is the haute couture grand-daughter of the woman who invented the bra. She speaks to Jane Hanks about the family business

Critics have dubbed this new show as clichéd and “frankly misleading” but Rebecca Leffler, the real American in Paris, tells how it's really quite true to life

Connexion interviews one of the UK's most well-known pro-Europe campaigners about becoming the last UK winner for the European Parliament's Charlemagne Youth Prize and why her last three-and-a-half years of effort were not in vain despite Brexit. 

UK plans for obligatory quarantine for everyone arriving from abroad – and France’s decision to demand voluntary isolation for people from the UK – are unjustified and may be unenforceable.

Legendary British singer Vera Lynn who inspired the forces in the Second World War and has been inspiring Britons again through Covid-19 confinement has passed on a message of encouragement to Connexion readers on the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

'Solitude is when you’re in contact with yourself, and that’s a positive thing'

Romain Charles spent 520 days in an enclosed space with five other people to study the psychological effects of long-distance space travel, while Léopold Eyharts spent two months on the ISS

Academic Dominique Desjeux believes we will quickly fall back into our pre-confinement ways once the Covid-19 crisis is over