In the ninth and tenth centuries, Brittany was hit harder than almost anywhere in Frankia, torn apart by dynastic feuds and then conquered outright by a Scandinavian warlord elite. This is the story ...

The rollout of high-speed fibre internet across France enters a new phase this year. We asked the readers of The Local living ...

Judging by the condition and design of the remains, INRAP suggests that John IV must have employed the best engineers and ...

A medieval castle built in the 1380s was unearthed in France. Archaeologists were surprised to find the ruins of the Château ...

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

A continuation of Chris Howard’s two-part exploration of the newly revived wine regions of north-west France. Above, an ...

Aerial images of flooded fields on the outskirts of Malestroit, in Morbihan, one of the four Breton départements ...

"With enough butter, anything is good," quipped Julia Child. Today's food lovers are just as smitten—and so is our writer, who set out on a quest across France to find the holy grail.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Nouvelle Aquitaine to Normandy to Brittany, France is renowned for its butter. Find out where to go for a taste of the best.

On a cold winter day in Normandy, not far from the D-Day landing beaches where Allied soldiers liberated France in World War II, the air is redolent with cream in the Isigny Sainte-Mère butter factory ...

When a team of researchers led by Clément Nicolas, an archaeologist at Bournemouth University, first saw archival photographs of a broken schist slab held at France’s National Archaeology Museum, they ...

Téviec is one of the very few known Mesolithic sites in Brittany, along with Pointe de la Torche, Hoëdic and Beg er Vil on the Quibe. It has been the subject of a biotope protection scheme for the ...