This week, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris will unveil The Desperate Man, the renowned self-portrait by French painter Gustave ...

AMELIE AND PIERRE (338 pp.)—Henri Troyat—Simon & Schuster ($4.50). To some French writers the production of novels is like the eating of salted almonds—they just cannot stop. Balzac turned out 17 ...

PARIS– Having playing a Muslim Azerbiijani boy in Asif Kapadia’s “Ali and Nino,” a Syrien camp commander in “Homeland” (season 5) “Homeland,” the handsome French-Moroccan actor Assaad Bouab might well ...

Eric Rohmer makes no judgments on Englishwoman abroad Lady Grace Georgina Elliot, the real-life royalist who refused to keep her views private during the French ...