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Byline: Elaine Sciolino The movement was named for a seascape Monet painted in this often-overlooked city, France's largest seaport. But it has a museum full of Impressionist canvases, intriguing architecture [...]

The movement was named for a seascape Monet painted in this often-overlooked city, France's largest seaport. But it has a museum full of Impressionist canvases, intriguing architecture and a new [...]

An exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay will be the first major Paris show in over 100 years for a painter who defied gender expectations in her personal as well as [...]

The California socialite Ann Getty's eclectic mix of decorative and fine arts objects are being sold by Christie's this month. This article is part of our Fine Arts & Exhibits [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino An exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay will be the first major Paris show in over 100 years for a painter who defied gender expectations in her personal [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino France: An Adventure History By Graham Robb Norton. 527 pp. $32.50 - - - To the French intellectual elite, moving effortlessly in a conversation 'du coq à [...]

The beloved Paris cathedral is still being restored after the devastating 2019 fire, but other churches are keeping its musical traditions alive this holiday season. The singers were unseen, filling [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino Jean-Michel Othoniel's sparkling sculptures have earned him one of France's most prestigious awards and a huge new Paris exhibition. PARIS - At a ceremony on Wednesday, the [...]

PARIS -- In a frenzied, four-day auction in the grand hall of the Savoy Hotel in Nice in June 1942, buyers bid on paintings, sculptures and drawings from ''the cabinet [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino and Alex Marshall Laurence des Cars, who will become the president of the world's most visited museum in September, shares some of her plans in an interview. [...]

Laurence des Cars, who will become the president of the world's most visited museum in September, shares some of her plans in an interview. Move over, Mona Lisa. You may [...]

Byline: David D. Kirkpatrick and Elaine Sciolino The Louvre inspected the 'Salvator Mundi' and certified it as the work of Leonardo da Vinci. But it kept those findings secret after [...]

The Louvre inspected the ''Salvator Mundi'' and certified it as the work of Leonardo da Vinci. But it kept those findings secret after a squabble with the painting's owners. French [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino Donna Stein, in her score-settling memoir, reveals how she helped Farah Diba Pahlavi create a museum whose collection is valued at $3 billion today. On the edge [...]

Donna Stein, in her score-settling memoir, reveals how she helped Farah Diba Pahlavi create a museum whose collection is valued at $3 billion today. On the edge of a vast [...]

In normal times, the restaurant Aux Lyonnais is a go-to place for the classic Paris business lunch of comfort and conviviality. Close to the Paris Stock Exchange and the offices [...]

The famous French museum has embraced all retail opportunities in an effort to offset the economic effects of the pandemic. PARIS -- Can face masks and T-shirts save the Louvre? [...]

An ultramodern conservation center in northern France is a haven for flood-threatened items from the museum's central Paris basement. LIÉVIN, France -- It is the most ambitious move in the [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino An ultramodern conservation center in northern France is a haven for flood-threatened items from the museum's central Paris basement. LIÉVIN, France - It is the most ambitious [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, a.k.a. Sylvie of 'Emily in Paris,' spills the beans on acting the part of a French femme fatale. PARIS - France may have gone back [...]

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, a.k.a. Sylvie of ''Emily in Paris,'' spills the beans on acting the part of a French femme fatale. PARIS -- France may have gone back into lockdown last [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino Notre-Dame: The Soul of France By Agnès Poirier Oneworld. 219 pp. $26.95 - - - On April 15, 2019, the night of the great Notre Dame fire, [...]

Long ago, like the lead character of Netflix's ''Emily in Paris,'' I received a bumpy education in what it means to be French. I'm still learning. Times Insider explains who [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino Darren Star's latest serial goes down like sour wine with les vrais Parisiennes. PARIS - The old story of the American ingénue who moves to Paris, succumbs [...]

Darren Star's latest serial goes down like sour wine with les vrais Parisiennes. PARIS -- The old story of the American ingénue who moves to Paris, succumbs to the city's [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino Fishmongers, butchers, neighbors and friends. The Rue des Martyrs village lives on. PARIS - Even as suffering and sadness envelop Paris these days, there is a street [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino Sometimes, when sleep eludes me in the dark hour before dawn, I make my way to the Pont de la Tournelle, the 400-foot bridge that links the [...]

Sometimes, when sleep eludes me in the dark hour before dawn, I make my way to the Pont de la Tournelle, the 400-foot bridge that links the ?le Saint-Louis to [...]

PARIS -- On a forlorn stretch of the Seine near the Gare de Lyon station sits a small, dreary, government-owned red brick building that houses one of the most vibrant [...]

PARIS -- There's no hiding when you're the spokeswoman for the Ðlysée Palace. Especially if you are the first black spokeswoman for the Ðlysée Palace. Especially if you are Sibeth [...]

Byline: Elaine Sciolino During a yearlong celebration of its food, the city is filled with odd versions for tourists and fancy variations for the well-heeled. Finding an authentic specimen took [...]

MARSEILLE, France -- In this ancient port city on the Mediterranean, there is no escaping the dark, hot, earthy fish concoction known as bouillabaisse. All around the Vieux Port, restaurants [...]

PARIS -- I visited the ancient Persian city of Susa only once, in 1982, on a trip to Iran's western border during the Iran-Iraq war. The Iraqis had attacked a [...]

I was deep into a mother-of-the-bride role, marching with military determination to Kleinfeld Bridal on 20th Street and Avenue of the Americas in New York. I was joining forces with [...]

PARIS -- Ernest Hemingway would have been amused. A 10-foot leather sofa that had once graced the Hemingway Bar, the watering hole at the Ritz in Paris where he and [...]

Byline: ELAINE SCIOLINO PARIS -- Ernest Hemingway would have been amused. A 10-foot leather sofa that had once graced the Hemingway Bar, the watering hole at the Ritz in Paris [...]

PARIS -- The Musée des Arts Décoratifs has long had an identity crisis. It is in a 19th-century wing of the Louvre building on the Rue de Rivoli, but it [...]

MEYRIN, Switzerland -- Fabiola Gianotti is one of the most important physicists in the world, and when she gazes at the heavens after dark, she sees more than the moon, [...]

PARIS -- Francesca Bellettini doesn't style her hair. She doesn't use mascara or foundation. She doesn't wear hose even in the dead of winter. And she doesn't speak French. An [...]

PARIS -- Francesca Bellettini doesn't style her hair. She doesn't use mascara or foundation. She doesn't wear hose even in the dead of winter. And she doesn't speak French. An [...]

The World Economic Forum at Davos has always had a woman problem. The reality is that masters, not mistresses, still run most of the universe. Men lead most of the [...]

Byline: ELAINE SCIOLINO The World Economic Forum at Davos has always had a woman problem. The reality is that masters, not mistresses, still run most of the universe. Men lead [...]

PARIS -- Hermès has turned window shopping for handbags and saddles and suitcases into high art. On Nov. 8, the luxury design house opened a free exhibition at the Grand [...]

Byline: ELAINE SCIOLINO PARIS -- Hermès has turned window shopping for handbags and saddles and suitcases into high art. On Nov. 8, the luxury design house opened a free exhibition [...]

PARIS -- When friends come to Paris and ask what they should buy as gifts to take home, I start with a two-word answer: dish towels. Dish towels are practical, [...]