As the Cévennes national park celebrates its 50th anniversary, Adam Thorpe reflects on how the ‘intricate hills’ of the Massif Central protect its wildlife – and way of life I sometimes think of the ...

To attempt a long walk in the rugged Cevennes region of southern France at any time requires strength of purpose, experience, a level head. The heroine of Caroline Vignal’s disarming comedy has none ...

This 302,319 ha property, in the southern part of central France, is a mountain landscape interspersed by deep valleys that is representative of the relationship between agro-pastoral systems and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “We need a donkey,” announces my husband, the morning before we depart for our 10-day hike in the footsteps of ...

Adam Thorpe’s memoir begins with a quotation from Daphne du Maurier’s The Scapegoat: “I should never be a Frenchman, never be one of them.” This seems to hint at a complicated yearning and a ...

Writer–director Caroline Vignal talks about her new film, a romp through the countryside featuring an unusual co-star inspired by a family holiday. A rom-com, a buddy movie, a tale of misadventure ...

FeatureWhile 85% of metropolitan France is exposed to light pollution, the Cévennes national park – the largest dark sky reserve in Europe – is encouraging its districts to preserve the night ...

It is a rare coincidence when a proper writer, a serious stylist, is sufficiently intimate with abroad to bring it to us in a form that is at once vivid and credible. Think those languid hours Henry ...

Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening Post for a decade, before he moved from north-west England to southern France. For the last 37 years, he has freelanced, specialising first ...