Up until fairly recently, there were surprisingly few options for Parisians looking for a chic weekend retreat within striking distance of the French capital. But that’s all changed with the recent ...

This patrician estate on 185 acres has gone through several transformations in its 900 years. The latest version is a serene country house hotel with high level design and elite cuisine. In its ...

Abbaye de Belloc is a sheep's milk cheese developed in the 1960s by Benedictine monks in the French Pyrenees. Until about a decade ago, the monks made and aged the cheese in their abbey, using raw ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a valley in the Chevreuse Regional Natural Park, about 45km south-west of Paris, past the clogged-up ...

Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye charms with medieval streets and a Gothic abbey, crowned France’s favourite village of 2025. (Image: Canva) France is renowned for its charming villages, cobbled streets, ...