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• “36 Hours in Marseille” May 2025

• “Marseille Is for Pizza Lovers” 2024

• “In Northern France, Riding the Rails Into the Past” 2023

I’m the France Correspondent for Courthouse News, and generally cover multiple topics per week. For a full archive of stories written for Courthouse News, click here.

• “In a sea of glitz, political undercurrents surge at Cannes” May 2025

• “Macron has won praise for his turn as Europe’s diplomat. At home, the French are less impressed” May 2025

• “Pre-conclave politics reveal how pope’s reach stretches deep into secular world” May 2025

• “As US pulls away, France could offer nuclear shield for Europe” March 2025

• “Japan’s manga lures French readers craving something different” February 2025

• “France turns over final Sahel military base amid forced withdrawal from Chad” January 2025

• “In France, anger over sentences in mass rape trial despite Dominique Pelicot getting maximum” 2024

• “In Paris, the reopening of Notre Dame inspires hope” 2024

• “‘You’ll die in lies!’ Daughter confronts Dominique Pelicot as French mass rape trial testimony wraps” 2024

• “France grapples with idea of ‘ordinary’ rapists at Gisèle Pelicot trial” 2024

• “The Gisèle Pelicot rape trial shines a new spotlight on consent” 2024

• “Gisèle Pelicot, bearing witness at mass rape trial, pulls back curtain on what survivors face” 2024

• “80 years on, France recognizes the diverse troops of Operation Dragoon” 2024

• “In a French far-right stronghold, residents grapple with an RN win” 2024

• “In Marseille, Glucksmann takes battle against far right to the streets” 2024

• “‘Something bigger than ourselves’: Biden stresses democratic values at D-Day landing site” 2024

• “Who is Jordan Bardella, the far-right politician on the rise in French polls?” 2024

• “Les Ulez: France’s clean-air zones risk protests from motorists” 2024

• “‘Death to suitcases’: the street war against French Airbnb” 2023

• “Why is gang violence rising in France’s Marseille?” 2023

• “France has a growing gang problem. It's so far failed to tackle it” 2023

• “'A house and a home are not the same thing': What happens to migrants who are moved out of Paris” 2023

• “‘It’s purely political’: Why France’s newest immigration bill is so controversial” 2023

• “French police: Inside controversial protest measures” 2023

• “Inside the network deporting thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia” 2023

• “‘Stealing a generation’: Ukrainian children deported to Russia face uncertain future” 2023

• “‘They’re dying in large numbers’: Disabled Ukrainians face abuse in institutions” 2023

• “Trafficking, abuse, neglect: The unseen fallout from orphanage tourism” 2022

• “Going with the flow on an impulsive trip to Thailand” 2022

• ”In Lyon’s network of hidden passageways, footfalls of the past” 2022

• ”In France’s Jura region, dinosaur fossils have left a footprint on the wine industry” 2022

• ”In southeastern France, touring the village where Marc Chagall found inspiration” 2021

• “Want to stay long term in France? First come the classes on how to be French.” 2021

• “In a gray, empty Paris, this corner shop’s colorful posters transport you wherever you want to go” 2021

• “‘16-64 is a beer, not a career’: What it’s like in Paris after weeks of pension reform protests” 2023

• “Paris laptop bans prove that new-wave coffee shops can’t compete with the classic cafes” 2022

• “The little-known history of Champagne,” 2023

• “The hidden history of Versailles,” 2023

• “Is French cuisine forever changed?” 2021