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The leaders of France and Britain will on Thursday co-chair a Paris summit involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Élysée said, amid a new international push to broker an end to Russia's three-and-a-half-year invasion.

Dozens of new flight routes to and from France will be launched in autumn and winter 2025. The Local has the details and list of destinations.

One of France's most famous national monuments may be getting a revamp after calls to change the inscription on the front to acknowledge the fact that women exist.

In an era of deep political divisions it seems that there is one thing that (almost) all French people can agree on - the importance of the evening ritual of apéro.

This is an important one to fully understand, because it might have a significant impact on your travel plans.

A town in Brittany has passed a local decree banning the construction of second homes amid an increasing housing shortage for local people.

A man and a boy have been arrested in Paris with a haul of jewellery worth an estimated €10 million, the prosecutor's office said on Sunday.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, who is fighting to keep his job in a budget standoff with the opposition, should "say goodbye", Socialist leader Olivier Faure said on Sunday.

French authorities are zeroing in on an anonymous online platform suspected of distributing child pornography after a similar site was closed last year, the state regulator told AFP on Saturday.

A Holocaust memorial in Lyon was defaced with a "Free Gaza" inscription, city officials told AFP on Saturday, fuelling concerns over an increase in antisemitic acts and hate crimes in France.

France's foreign minister has arrived in Greenland to express his nation's "solidarity" with the Danish autonomous territory, the ministry said, after Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants the United States to take over the island.

As 2025 continues to fly by at TGV speed, we look forward to an ‘interesting’ September in France, offer the latest advice on citizenship applications, explain what border guards can ask travellers for … and suggest a few beyond-Paris day trips.

From the start of a new school year to basketball games to tune into and more opportunities to swim in the Seine River, here's what is happening in France this week.

This French word has little to do with a person's financial situation, though he or she may end up this way after an unfortunate turn of events.

French air traffic controllers have called a strike for September - adding to the growing numbers of strike calls for the autumn as France's political situation becomes ever more precarious.

As 12 million students – and some 850,000 teachers – return to classrooms across France on Monday, September 1st, here’s what they can expect from the start of term.

As France goes back to work after the summer holidays, unions and political organisations are also planning protests and strikes in September.

As France prepares to go back to work, September brings with it a new political crisis and possibly a new prime minister, planned strikes and protests, tax changes, a retirement planning update and gas and cigarette price changes, to name but a few.

After Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday sent a letter accusing Emmanuel Macron of fuelling anti-Semitism in France by calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state, the French presidency snapped back with a statement calling the Israeli leader's claims "abject" and "erroneous". 

France has adopted a modified piece of legislation that will prevent a pesticide believed to pose risks to human health from being reintroduced into the country. The country's main farmers' unions had argued that the pesticide was necessary for French farmers to compete with their European counterparts.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against US right-wing podcaster Candace Owens, who has repeatedly claimed that the wife of the president used to be a man. The Macrons said Owens' claims were "designed to harass and cause pain ... and to garner attention".

A French court on Monday jailed three people for the human trafficking of undocumented migrants to work in the champagne industry. Victims said they were treated "like slaves" as they were forced to work 13-hour shifts and left to sleep in an abandoned building with no food or water.

France’s new agricultural "Duplomb law" has met with stiff opposition from environmental and health experts for allowing the reintroduction of a controversial and banned pesticide that is known to damage ecosystems. However, although a petition against the divisive draft law has garnered a record 1.5 million signatures, it is unlikely to be withdrawn.

The famous red windmill above Paris's Moulin Rouge twirled again on Thursday evening, 14 months after the 12-metre blades tumbled to the ground in a shock accident. Hundreds of people gathered in the street outside the venue on Thursday to watch a public show celebrating the restoration of the iconic monument.

A wildfire that spread over 700 hectares in just a few hours near the French city of Marseille is receding, officials said on Wednesday. Local authorities warned that Marseille Provence airport could be closed again to allow for more airborne fire-fighting. High-speed train traffic in Marseille has resumed while local train traffic remains severely […]