EditorialA?ssata Seck, an elected official in Seine-Saint-Denis, France, sits for a portrait in Paris on Jan. 20, 2023. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialChristine Jagueneau, 59, is unemployed and eager to find a job, but she is finding that companies in France are not hiring older workers. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialJean Imbert, the chef at Monsieur Dior, the new in-store restaurant on Avenue Montaigne in Paris, March 3, 2022. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialYves Saint Laurent’s office preserved at the Musee Yves Saint Laurent, the designer’s former headquarters in Paris, Jan. 21, 2022. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialDirector Robert Wilson at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, on Nov. 22, 2021, where his staging of Puccini’s “Turandot” opens Wednesday. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialAngelique Kidjo, a multi-Grammy winning singer from Benin who has been forging Pan-African and transcontinental hybrids for three decades, in a suburb of Paris, June 11, 2021. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialJean-Michel Othoniel stands before his sculpture ?Blue River,? part of a retrospective of the famed glass artisan?s works at the Petit Palais in Paris, October 4, 2021. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialAngelique Kidjo, a multi-Grammy winning singer from Benin who has been forging Pan-African and transcontinental hybrids for three decades, in a suburb of Paris, June 11, 2021. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialThe rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce, designed by Tadeo Ando, with the 19th-century work “Triumphal France” above, and Urs Fischer's wax replica of the 16th-century Giambologna statue “The Abduction of the Sabine Women” below, in Paris, May 13, 2021. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialAn assortment of Christo’s work from the early 1960s, part of the exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris, on July 3, 2020. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialAn assortment of Christo’s work from the early 1960s, part of the exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris, on July 3, 2020. (Julien Mignot/The New York Times)
EditorialWashington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War). THOMAS PRITCHARD ROSSITER. Louis Remy Mignot. GEORGE WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON (FAMILIA).