Every winter, the head gardener at Claude Monet’s garden in the tiny French village of Giverny sits down to a stack of seed catalogs—and braces for disappointment. Jean-Marie Avisard knows he must ...

In September of last year, my husband, sister, brother-in-law, and I took a trip to France. After a few days in Paris, exploring the city and taking in the charm that is Paris, we boarded a river ...