My understanding was that the French Institute Alliance Française was where you went to take French lessons. And I suppose the event constituted a French lesson, of sorts. The institute hosted a ...

Catherine Robbe-Grillet, 83, is France’s most famous dominatrix, yet, as she tells Toni Bentley in February’s Vanity Fair, she has never, ever accepted money for her “ceremonies”: “If someone pays, ...

Any publication on the culture beat has been inundated by emails and pitches tied to anti-50 Shades of Grey campaigns. It’s predictable enough that the easily-alarmed conservatives at, say, ...

For decades, French artist and writer Catherine Robbe-Grillet – aka dominatrix Jeanne De Berg – has organised mysterious ceremonies for women. This documentary portrait explores a very particular one: ...

She is France's most famous dominatrix, has written several books on sexual submission, and now lives in a chateau in Normandy with a female submissive 31 years younger than her. But for 50 years of ...