READ MORE: MAP: Which French cities have the best local amenities close by? The Paris region - Île-de-France - was the best with 549. After that, Pays de la Loire scored 529 and Brittany was in ...

The royal collection of scale-model cities, begun under Louis XIV, offers a bird's eye view of France's fortifications. Sixteen models from the reserves, some never before shown in public, have ...

After decades of wrangling, French lawmakers finally voted just before Christmas to slash the number of regions in metropolitan France from 22 to 13. The map below shows where two, or sometimes ...