THE BEST CARTOONS FROM FRANCE (120 pp.) — Collected by Edna Bennett —Simon & Schuster ($2.95). THE TATTOOED SAILOR (115 pp.)—André François—Knopf ($2.95). French humor prides itself on its elegantly ...

Standup comedian Jacques Silvère Bah, known as Le Magnific, played with French and African words and accents at a humor festival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in February. Arlette Bashizi for The New York ...

With self-deprecating humor and energy, French fighter Myriam Benadda (@mimi_bnd_) subverts stereotypes to tell the story of ...