A Royal Crime in a Cold Climate
Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, is being charged with the alleged rape of four women—will his trial bring down the monarchy?
The Sarkozy Redemption Tour
The former French president has turned his 20 days in prison—Soggy baguettes! Plastic pillows!—into a 200-page best-selling memoir
An Affair to Remember
Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish army captain wrongfully accused of treason in a scandal immortalized by Zola, gets redemption
The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire
A 1917 document grants Britain the right of first refusal to buy Greenland—casting a shadow over Donald Trump’s grand plans for the ice sheet
Hang It in the Louvre
The comics-loving French have turned World Without End, a graphic novel about climate change, into a surprise best-seller
The House Doesn’t Always Win
In Monaco, allegations of corruption have triggered a series of lawsuits against Prince Albert, creating chaos in a country known for discretion
Cinema Verité
Like the plot of a French New Wave film, the legendary actor Alain Delon is in a tumultuous battle with his much younger girlfriend
Légion d’Bonheur
Say no to golf and shuffleboard—retire at a 17th-century château in Provence the way French Foreign Legionnaires do
Did a Doomed Love Inspire the Eiffel Tower?
It’s a symbol of romance, but the designer was motivated by other emotions
In France, a Woman Strikes Back
Molested when she was 12, Valérie Bacot, decades later, killed her abuser—her husband. Many want to see her set free
For a Good Time in Paris, Call Her
“Madame Claude” supplied high-end prostitutes to J.F.K., the Shah of Iran, Frank Sinatra, and others. Was she a feminist icon or a thug?
The Monster in Their Midst
Jean-Claude Romand, whose horrific murder spree shook France in 1993, has just left prison for a monastery. How can you tell whether a master of deception has really changed?