Travel Dispatch: Picture-Perfect France
Plus: How to Spend 36 Hours in Paris and Marseille
Travel Dispatch
June 18, 2025

Culture, history, landscape, cuisine — France can capture anyone’s imagination. Here are five recent Travel stories to help you plan your picture-perfect trip.

An illustration depicts a market scene in a European village with pale stone buildings and stalls of produce and shellfish on a cobblestone street. The stalls are shaded by blue-striped and red umbrellas, and people in aprons stand behind the bins of oysters and other goods. One customer in a red shirt holds a tray of oysters in one hand, as she tastes one of the shellfish.

Victoria Tentler-Krylov

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A view over over Paris's rooftops, as the sky is turning a soft pink and purple. The pointed Eiffel Tower is visible in the distance, rising into the sky.

How to Spend 36 Hours in Paris →

A woman stands on a platform between two antique-looking trains holding a child in her arms.

Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

In Northern France, Riding the Rails Into the Past →

A rocky seacoast with people on the rocks and buildings in the background.

Jonathan Stokes for The New York Times

How to Spend a Weekend in Marseille →

A pink body of water ends at a sea wall next to a scrubby patch of land with several small buildings on it. There are bluish mountains on the horizon.

Alex Cretey-Systermans for The New York Times

Roam With Cowboys and Flamingos in France’s Wild, Wild South →

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