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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Appellation d'origine protégée (AOP) label, awarded by the European Commission, designates a product that is particular to a certain region. In the case of the 'châtaigne des Cévennes', the ...

Gilbert Bischeri, winemaker in Aujac (southern France), in his plot of forbidden grape varieties. BENJAMIN BÉCHET FOR M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE On a late summer morning, a fresh breeze was blowing across ...

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 ...