Happy Bastille Day! To celebrate this French holiday, let’s take a look at some of the things we call "French" in English that may not be French at all. Vanilla is a bean from a tropical plant not ...

May 21 (Reuters) - The French Open is a clay-court Grand Slam tournament organised by the French Tennis Federation. It was first held in 1891 and originally known as the French Championships, or ...

December 9, 2005, marks the 100th anniversary of secularism in France, known as “laïcité.” In 1905 the French government passed a law stipulating “the separation of churches and the state,” thus ...