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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will serve jail time at a Paris prison from October 21st, informed sources told AFP on Monday, after a court last month sentenced him to five years behind bars for criminal conspiracy.

Embattled French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu will give a high-stakes speech on Tuesday to a deeply divided parliament, a day after President Emmanuel Macron blamed opponents for plunging the country into "chaos".

A man on trial for the murder of his wife in a case that has gripped France claimed on Monday to have been asleep during the night of her disappearance, which happened during the Covid-19 pandemic in December 2020.

A nine-year-old girl was found dead in her home in northeastern France this weekend, prosecutors and police sources said, pointing to a likely death by suicide after she was bullied.

If you are in Paris or the surrounding area this week, you might receive an emergency alert message on your phone - part of a large-scale flood-planning exercise.

It's official - the best croissants au beurre in the country are produced at a family bakery in south-west France.

As France navigates another political crisis, you might find this phrase back in the headlines.

Part of the process when moving to France is setting up a bank account - here's a useful website that can help you compare different banks and their fees.

Every autumn, when taxe foncière deadlines are upon us, the same question arises: who should pay following a change in a family’s situation — whether it’s through death, divorce or the sale of the property.

Local authorities in Paris began on Monday morning to simulate a severe flood that would lead to mass evacuations and cause damage across the city.

The names of the members of France's new government - including a few new faces and political outsiders - were revealed late on Sunday, after the PM held marathon talks to cobble together a cabinet and prevent the country from slipping deeper into crisis.

They may have come from around the world to the French Riviera. But the only views they were interested in were on computer monitors inside a hangar-like exhibition space.

Air France announced Sunday that it has suspended its flights to Madagascar -- where a possible military revolt was happening -- until at least Tuesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Egypt on Monday to back the Gaza ceasefire deal brokered by the United States, and to discuss implementation of its next phases, the Elysee Palace said.

From Sunday, non-EU travellers entering Europe's Schengen open-borders zone will gradually be photographed and fingerprinted at border crossings, as the European Union rolls out its much-delayed automated border checks.

A big week in French politics begins, a former president learns the date of his prison fate, there’s another strike, and schools break up for two weeks.

Roughly 45,000 Brits in France will soon need to renew their post-Brexit residency cards, but exactly how to do this varies depending on where you live. Here's the préfecture-by-préfecture breakdown of the process.

Over the coming months, tens of thousands of Brits living in France will have to renew their post-Brexit residency cards. The French government has now confirmed the method with préfectures gradually launching their systems for renewals.

A 14-year-old student stabbed his music teacher in the face during class in Benfeld, northeastern France, officials said Wednesday. The teacher is in stable condition after surgery, while the student, said to be fascinated by Nazi ideologies, was arrested after injuring himself. Authorities call the attack "isolated".

France's 2025-2026 seasonal flu and Covid-19 vaccination campaign begins this Thursday, October 14th. Here is what you need to know.

French postal service La Poste has, along with many of its European counterparts, suspended the mailing of packages to the United States, following new US customs duties regulations. Here's what that means for Americans in France.

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.