For an author who fuelled the world’s wanderlust with his books, Jules Verne, who penned Around the World in Eighty Days in 1873 (it is the most translated French novel), didn’t do much travelling.

The industrial site now occupied here by Whirlpool, the American home-appliances maker, has been a remarkable survivor. Its 17 hectares of factory buildings and loading docks on the River Somme in ...

As Amiens, a city in northern France, firms up its proposal to be the 2028 European Capital of Culture, a designation bestowed by the European Union, it’s hoping to feature in its bid a key painting: ...

Amiens Cathedral, in the heart of Picardy, is one of the largest 'classic' Gothic churches of the 13th century. It is notable for the coherence of its plan, the beauty of its three-tier interior ...

Amiens, Cathedral town.Talking in the run-up to Easter to campaigners for French election frontrunner Emmanuel Macron in his home town of Amiens and it’s clear to their minds that he has a certain ...

Amiens mayor wants singer to lend Jérôme-Martin Langlois painting after it went missing in first world war What do the singer Madonna and Amiens in northern France have in common? Not a lot, says the ...

The Duke of Cambridge and Theresa May attended a ceremony in northern France today to mark the centenary of the Battle of Amiens, one of the most decisive battles of the First World War. Prince ...

The mayor of Amiens, northern France, has asked Madonna to lend the city a 19th-century painting lost during World War I which it believes may be have been bought by the singer, to help its chances of ...