Recently, the area has also been rising to prominence as a fine-dining destination, with a growing number of celebrity chefs opening Michelin-starred farm-to-table restaurants in historic chateaux ...

Hauts-de-France — stretching from Calais to the edge of Paris — is famed for its excellent frites, sold from mobile trailers and cabins known as friteries.

In the middle of 2008, construction began on France's biggest mall project in a decade. Weeks later the U.S. credit and housing crisis slammed into Europe, and "Le Millenaire"'s promoters braced ...