Divorced and in my 50s, I left the United States to buy property in rural France. Despite issues, I love living there and I rent part of it out.

As France prepares to cut speed limits on main countryside roads, a new report has shed some light on which parts of the country have the most dangerous network of secondary roads based on mortality ...

Complaints aside, the French Senate deemed loud roosters, pungent horse manure, and the like official parts of the country's rural "sensory heritage." The move is a major victory for the rural ...

The winemakers of Beaujolais are not happy this year. That seems odd, considering they live in some of France’s most beautiful villages, where old stone houses are decked with flowers amid hillside ...

France has passed a law protecting the “sensory heritage” of its rural areas, in the face of complaints about the noises and smells typical of the countryside. Senators voted to approve the law, which ...

France has passed a law to protect the sounds and smells of the countryside as part of French heritage. This comes after many people moved from cities to rural parts of the nation, and many of them ...