Kick up your heels and celebrate the French "joie de vivre" at the French Heritage Center committee's "A Québécois Dance" on June 10 at 1:30 p.m. at the Holyoke Lodge of Elks, 250 Whitney Ave., ...

French actress Emmanuelle Riva is nominated for an Academy Award for her role as an elderly musician who’s suffered a debilitating stroke in Michael Haneke’s Amour. She had her first feature film role ...

An official French Girl trailer has been released by Paramount, previewing the Zach Braff and Vanessa Hudgens-led romantic comedy. The film is set to release in theaters on Friday, March 15 and ...

French has the reputation of being a monocentric language, in contradistinction to languages such as English and Spanish, which are polycentric (i.e., they have several standard varieties). Throughout ...

A new French translation of the Bible with a distinctly Québécois flavour employs plenty of literary and poetic licence to bring a contemporary feel to the work, but promises to retain the beauty and ...

Quebecois French has long been mocked for its rough-and-tumble sound, but this version of French is more likely what 17th-Century French aristocracy spoke – including the king. It was a perfect ...

The Bloc Quebecois plans to introduce a bill Thursday that would require anyone applying for Canadian citizenship in Quebec to demonstrate functional proficiency in French. Bloc Leader Yves-Francois ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story published on Nov. 18 erroneously reported that Liberal MP Emmanuella Lambropoulos said in a House of Commons committee meeting that the idea that the French ...

Declared one of Canada’s best inventions, the mess of chips, curd cheese and gravy is a deeply rooted culinary tradition that can span from the classic to the avant-garde. The day began eight hours ...