The village of Laguiole is perched high on a plateau in France’s Massif Central range, in the heart of the Aubrac countryside. It is filled with stone houses with gray-shingled roofs that are ...

A legal battle has erupted over the right to use the name of Laguiole, shared by France's best-known knife brand and a small town in the south-west of the country. Henry Samuel in Paris 06 June 2010 • ...

Most people are familiar with Laguiole-style knives, but most don’t know that authentic Laguiole knives are highly collectible and, by extension, far from affordable. Laguiole en Aubrac is one of few ...

Residents of Laguiole, a village synonymous with the manufacture of France's most famous knives, have symbolically "unnamed" the place in protest at losing control of the name. The villagers are ...