Every year, the Journées Européennes du Patrimoine (European Heritage Days) weekend in September offers visitors a chance to visit numerous monuments all over Europe. Among the attractions in Paris ...

Jacques Cooper, designer of France's first ultra-fast TGV train that shattered world speed records when it came into service in 1981, has died aged 93, his former employer Alstom said on Wednesday.

France's most successful, recent contribution to world civilisation, the high-speed train, is 30 years old this year but its future is increasingly disputed in its own homeland. The achievements of ...

Several children were on board when a high-speed train derailed during a test run in France, killing 11 people, the rail company SNCF has said. Five people are still missing and more than 30 were ...

In this week's French Connections, we're climbing aboard an institution: the TGV. France's cherished bullet train is an important part of the landscape and has been connecting far-flung parts of the ...