What keeps Vermonters from venturing to Québec more often? Whether they admit it or not, for most Anglophones, it’s the official language of: French, aka français — and not the kind you learned in ...

For centuries, a box of letters sat unopened in the National Archives in the U.K., until one curious historian recently unsealed and read them for the first time. What he found was a panoply of human ...

Rae Beth Gordon’s new book promises a solution to a great cultural mystery: Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema (Stanford University Press). And what of the French ...