France's easternmost region, Alsace, is also one of its most enchanting — thanks largely to its location. Pressed up against the German border, along the Rhine, the region flip-flopped between Germany ...

Shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve 1944, German forces launched a major offensive in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace-Lorraine, France, known as Operation Northwind. The German attack surged ...

ALSACE-LORRAINE has now been reunited with France for something over eleven years, and the fact is generally well known that neither France nor the redeemed provinces are entirely satisfied with the ...

Alsace is a picturesque region in eastern France, nestled between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine River. The area has changed hands between France and Germany multiple times in the past 600 years, ...

Biking down a newly paved but skinny one-lane service road through lush vineyards, I notice how the hills seem to be blanketed in green corduroy. My Alsatian friend hollers at me, “Germany believes ...

The President of France is not expected to voice his opinion on matters of government policy. When he speaks, it is by tradition in the voice of the nation as a whole, united above partisan politics.