Interviews

Four engineers from Toulouse, all friends from childhood, are attempting to build the world’s fastest drakkar Viking ship – and plan to sail it from France to New York

New British ambassador Menna Rawlings is the first woman in the role after 36 men since the time of the Duke of Wellington, who bought the building which is her official residence (see  below). She spoke to The Connexion’s Sarah Smith and Liv Rowland.

This Parisian moulding workshop – open for one day this weekend – may hold the original mould of the Inconnue de la Seine, an unknown woman drowned in the 19th century whose face has inspired novels, artwork and even CPR dummies

This month sees the start of the long-awaited trial for the November 2015 Paris attacks. President of victims’ group Life for Paris, Arthur Dénouveaux, hopes above all that the outcome will honour the victims

American ambassadors are often political positions and change if there is a new president, the embassy's chargé d’affaires in Paris, Brian Aggeler, explains

In September 2017, Martine and Léon Cligman announced that they were donating 600 works from their private art collection to the State

A British graduate who grew up in France speaks to a former Resistance fighter in his childhood home village about those who fought off the Nazis there in 1944; he says it is vital to keep these memories alive

The couple are still very much in love, says their son, who has written a book about their long life together

International journalist Martin Walker speaks about how life in rural France is as interesting as times spent in capital cities with world leaders

Fiona Malagutti wrote her book 'A Couper le Souffle' after completing a series of previously impossible challenges to show that people with cystic fibrosis (CF) can still fulfil their dreams