Claude Monet 1840-1926   Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840,  in Paris. A few years later, his family moved the the Normandie harbor town of Le Havre, where ...

(1869-1954) Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, ...

Christine Lagarde, France's ex finance minister, has taken over as head of the International Monetary Fund.

This page is designed to provide a general overview of renowned museum The Louvre, located in Paris, France. 

French novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, journalist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952. François Mauriac belonged to the long tradition of French Roman Catholic writers, who examined the ...

Camus was a French philosophical novelist and essayist who was also a prose poet and the conscience of his times. He was born and raised in Algeria, and his experiences ...

French poet and diplomat, who used the pseudonym Saint-John Perse to keep his literary activity private. Perse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960. He has been called ...

Educated in his native Paris and at German universities, Jean-Paul Sartre taught philosophy during the 1930s at La Havre and Paris. Captured by the Nazis while serving as an Army ...

French writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985. Simon described in several works with photographic objectivity his own family history. He became known as a major ...

JMG Le Clézio, who in 2008 became the first French-language author in 23 years to win the Nobel prize in literature, had hoped to launch his career with English detective ...

Marie Antoinette (French pronunciation: [maʀi ɑ̃twanɛt]; German: Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen; French: Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne de Habsbourg-Lorraine); (Vienna, 2 November 1755 – Paris, 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess ...

Jean-Antoine Watteau (October 10, 1684 – July 18, 1721) was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement (in the tradition of Correggio ...

Pastis (pronounced in US: /pæˈstiːs/, UK: /ˈpæstɪs/) is an anise-flavored liqueur and apéritif from France, typically containing 40–45% alcohol by volume, although alcohol-free varieties exist.

Saint Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc; ca. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she ...

L’événement phare de la Côte d’Azur en hiver, un des plus grands Carnaval du monde, propose un programme de spectacles inoubliables… du 12 au 28 février 2010. Les défilés carnavalesques, ...