Holding on tightly to the last vestiges of warm, summer like weather throughout France in October, we ventured to the harbor of La Rochelle and Ile de Ré. We boarded a 7:22 TGV train at Montparnasse ...

Owned and operated by the luxury hotel group Heloise’s Choice, Villa Clarisse was the first property in Île de Ré that was developed by Olivia de Calvez. In 2011, de Calvez oversaw and orchestrated ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Oyster farmers are a shy breed, says 33-year-old “Pierre”, in part-explanation for not wanting his real name to ...

The French are none too subtle about their desire to keep Ile de Re to themselves, and who can blame them? For centuries we tried to get our mitts on this beautiful, flat and sandy outcrop, just 12 ...

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So why does everyone love Ile de Re? Why does the French resort on the Atlantic coast consistently get such rave reviews in the press? In keeping with the worst traditions of investigative journalism, ...

Catching my breath atop a crumbling, 600-year-old church, I look down to see whitewashed fishing villages peppered with terracotta roofs sprawled out beneath me. In the distance is a prison that the ...

"What is exciting and quite unique is to find various objects from as far as Ireland, England, the Netherlands and Germany buried with the corpses in this part of western France, in the late 8th ...