Whether it’s a café croissant watching the world go by from a Parisian terrace, or that glass of rosé with a long-time friend, or an apéritif with the neighbours that extends into an impromptu dinner ...

Memo to fashion designers: The French aren't quite as thin as you might think. French men and women are getting taller and heavier, and the average woman in France has gone up a dress size since ...

What does an average French woman look like? Here’s your answer and a whole lot more, where thousands of faces have been averaged into a composite face for each of 41 different countries.Face ...

The average French woman actually works longer than the average American, retiring at 62 and six months. Of course, the French retirement pension system pays differently from our Social Security ...

On a recent trip to France, my mission was to eat like a French woman - or at least to find out just how they stay so slim. It's been called the French Paradox, and I was determined to get to the ...

Europe's top human rights court ruled the woman's right to respect for private and family life had been violated when French courts found her solely at fault for her divorce because she withheld sex.

That means that the average American woman (5’4”) is about 21 pounds heavier than the average French woman.

French women (who rarely jump on trends without a good reason) have fully embraced the longer, more structured silhouette. And honestly, I see the appeal.

Granted, the Times is going to choose the best photos, but somehow French women always managed to look more seductive than the average American woman.

Indeed, according to Eurostat, the highest levels of life expectancy at birth for females in the EU are found in the French island of Corsica in the Mediterranean, where women live on average to 87.