Barbara: The elfin singer, actress and French national treasureAn abuse survivor who forged a successful showbiz career despite remaining virtually unknown outside France
Alain Delon: French cinema legend dogged by scandal and family feudWe look back at the 88-year-old film star’s colourful life, on and off screen
150 years of Impressionism: how Americans saved Monet from povertyIf you visit his Normandy home you will not see a real Monet work - but there are some nearby
US president Thomas Jefferson’s French wine tour has lasting legacyThe third President of the United States wanted an American wine industry to compete with the ‘debauchery’ of whisky
Hacker, peep shows, jail: the story of a French tech billionaireArtificial intelligence is the next realm to be conquered in legendary tycoon Xavier Niel’s colourful career
The French couple who loved, lived and died studying volcanoesWhen scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft died on an erupting volcano they left a legacy of research that saves lives today
Marguerite Durand: the force of France’s first feminist journalistThe 19th-century former actress founded a daily newspaper written and produced entirely by women
Mimie Mathy: French TV star who turned disability into a driving forceShe may be virtually unknown outside of France but outspoken Mimie continues to be one of the country’s best-loved actresses
Frédéric Chopin: the short life of a musical geniusWe discover the man behind the piano compositions - a child prodigy, Polish émigré and an unconventional love life
British man walking from Cheshire to Eiffel Tower for charityThe 21-year-old said: ‘I want to help people who cannot afford Christmas’
American returns 68 years on to French town that helped him after WWIIHe told The Connexion he met a childhood friend on the visit to the south of France where his family began to rebuild their lives on release from a Nazi labour camp
TV couple who bought French hamlet open gite in a horsebox The couple, who feature in the UK Channel 4 show Help! We Bought a Village, are rebuilding hamlet they bought for €26,000 in Normandy