Picardie, France News

Last summer, I felt like a king while exploring the splendid chateaux near Paris.

Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives. Each saint the Church honors responded to God's invitation to use his or her unique gifts.

This small city in northern France has few immigrants and little crime. But in the last local elections here, the candidate of the far-right National Front eliminated the standard-bearer of President Nicolas Sarkozy's party in the first round of voting and then won 30.2 percent of the vote in the runoff, losing to a Socialist.

In 1095, Pope Urban II delivered a sermon in Clermont, France, calling on Christians to recapture the holy city of Jerusalem from Muslim rule.

Adapt or die, goes the old saying. But in the case of Birdsong maybe it's adapt and die.

This old snapshot was sent into the Chronicle by 89-year-old Elsie Kersley, who believed one of the men, from Newcastle, was her husband's great uncle.

Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives. Each saint the Church honors responded to God's invitation to use his or her unique gifts.

A pivotal battle near the end of World War I, saw the United States Marines and American Army units step up to the Western Front in France to stem the German advance toward Paris.

Amiens, France, 1918. The Hundred Days Offensive -- the Allied push that won the First World War -- is about to begin.

Audiences have protested at the actors' poor dictation and mumbled lines on BBC One's adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's best-selling First World War novel.

SEALING the exclusivity and luxury of the Chanel No.5 bottle is an art by itself.

Countless attempts have been made to bring Sebastian Faulks' 'Birdsong' to the screen over the past two decades - and all have failed.