Abbaye Saint Victor is a working Catholic church, which was founded back in the 11th century as an abbey and named for the Roman soldier and Christian martyr Victor of Marseille. Much of the abbey was ...

Abbaye de Belloc is a sheep's milk cheese developed in the 1960s by Benedictine monks in the French Pyrenees. Until about a decade ago, the monks made and aged the cheese in their abbey, using raw ...

This patrician estate on 185 acres has gone through several transformations in its 900 years. The latest version is a serene country house hotel with high level design and elite cuisine. In its ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a valley in the Chevreuse Regional Natural Park, about 45km south-west of Paris, past the clogged-up ...