Tom Parry
16 March 2025
The rise and fall (and rise?) of the people’s ski resort
Le Balcon de Villard was cheap and very cheerful. Climate change and underinvestment changed that – but now NBA star Tony Parker wants to revive it
Read the full article24 November 2024
My trip to the saddest place in France
The 643 villagers of Oradour-sur-Glane were wiped out by the Nazis. Untouched by order of de Gaulle, the place where they lived and died is now a shrine
Read the full article08 September 2024
Macron wobbles on the tightrope
He was the future once, but now French voters are heading for the extremes
Read the full article12 August 2024
Giving the Olympics le Shrug
Parisians embraced the Games – but it was a different story in one corner of rural France
Read the full article06 July 2024
I left Britain for France after Brexit. So what now?
Le Pen and Bardella are the stuff of 2016 nightmares
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