How to spend a weekend in two of northwest France’s most enchanting cities, with a side-trip to Mont-St.-Michel. By Seth Sherwood Metropolitan. Maritime. Mystical. Those are the three faces of ...

Pillaging plucky English shipping – St Malo was the key corsair port – bagged so much more that, at one point, Malouin merchants held 25 per cent of all the gold in France. Louis XIV used to ...