From school uniform experiments to a cigarette tax, via the French politicians who are ruining August by insisting on talking ...

The company behind a catamaran ferry service between Boulogne and Dover is set to pilot a new France-UK route later this year ...

Children at schools, collèges or lycées in France could be obliged to change establishment if their parents' behaviour is ...

France is home to more than 34,000 communes, and while most have very ordinary names, others have become famous for a very ...

As Marine Le Pen prepares herself for her great election gamble, French academic Emile Chabal explores the similarities with ...

France's experiment with introducing uniforms in schools looks to be quietly ending after mixed results and a cut in ...

A French MP has announced his intention to propose a new law to tax tobacco companies to pay for the cost of fighting ...

Trying to get anything done in France in August can be frustrating as the country shifts into holiday modes and shops and ...

France's annual Nuits des Étoiles (Starry night) returns starting Friday, August 7th to Sunday, August 9th, with more than 600 free events taking place across the country.

An industrial waste warehouse in northeastern France caught fire on Sunday, spewing foul smoke that gave residents headaches ...

This French expression paints a vivid picture of what happens when you've reached your limit.

Pedestrians walk past the illuminated green cross of a pharmacy showing a temperature of 39C in Bordeaux, south-western France. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP) South-east France is still in the grip ...