To American listeners, the music of Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Edith Piaf and Michel Legrand epitomizes everything exquisite and poetic about French culture. But to a musician who was born and ...

The traditional French accordion is no more, as Maugein, one of France’s oldest accordion manufacturers, closes shop after 105 years. The owner blames Chinese competition and Covid for the firm’s ...

Laurent Koscielny, a footballer with a heart and a love of Made in France accordians, it seems. Photo: AFP/Photoverulam/flickr French international footballer Laurent Koscielny, who plays with Premier ...

The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...

French footballer Laurent Koscielny has not forgotten his roots. Even the bustle of London, where he has lived since signing for Arsenal in 2010, has failed to drown out the gentle strains of the ...

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.” Whether or not you agree with Tom Waits on this point, the box-shaped musical instrument invented in Vienna has become such an ...