In a tucked – away corner of Paris’s 9th arrondissement, a 49 – year – old architect leans across a marble table, her crimson ...

Café Pli is the self-proclaimed ‘first letter café in France’, encouraging customers to ‘confide in yourself with an open heart’. It was opened after the founder, Geneviève Landsmann ...

It’s hard to overstate the importance of cafes in French culture, though their numbers are declining. According to one estimate, France in the 1960s had about 200,000 bistros and cafes.

All the windows of Aksehir - a bar in the Olympic Village district of Grenoble - were blown out, in what appeared to be a ...