Features

This section explores the road network in much more detail, looking back at the history of France's vast road network and infrastructure, and the stories of some of the country's iconic roads.

This is a new section, so we'll be adding new articles every so often. Keep coming back to see what's new!

A brief history of the French road network

A look back at the origins of the roads in France and how the infrastructure evolved from Gallic tracks, through Napoleon's grand ideas, to the system we see today.

Voie de la Liberté

The road that honours one man's army and their remarkable pace in liberating much of Occupied France.

Voie Sacrée

The story of a small lane that became quite possibly the most important wartime road in the country.