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Bar/fly: Volvic, Lyon
It being midday and the sun being out, the mayor of Volvic was on the beer. Not the famous local water.

Paris: Queuing for the Louvre
The Louvre, as a famous museum, even has a museum celebrating its own history. It's in two sections across a hall near the entrance and is well worth a few minutes.

Aid groups condemn French tactics
More than a dozen humanitarian and nongovernmental organisations yesterday accused local authorities in France of brutality against migrants as the demolition of a shantytown known as "the....

Kids could sue parents over Facebook pics
French parents are being warned to stop posting pictures of children on social networks in case their offspring later sue them for breaching their privacy.

French police fire tear gas to quell migrants
Riot police fired tear gas to push back migrants who set fire to tents and threw stones as bulldozers and demolition teams moved into the Calais "Jungle" camp yesterday.

France: Hit the coast, not the slopes
Now is the time to relish the warm sea air and deserted beaches of Languedoc-Roussillon - land of pastis, seafood and rugby.

France pledges compensation for nuclear tests
Residents of French Polynesia who suffered because of 30 years of French nuclear tests have a legitimate right to compensation, President Francois Hollande said.

Paris: A walking tour in the City of Light
Of course it is possible to take the Metro from the Eiffel Tower to Montmartre but Paris is a wonderful city to explore on foot.

French may soon legally ignore work emails
Provision would give employees the right to ignore professional emails and other messages when outside the office.

French rise up against work emails
Liberty, equality, fraternity - and now, the "right to disconnect".

Airline blasted for refusing wheelchair
A disabled rights campaigner has blasted Air France for "nearly ruining his honeymoon" after they refused to allow his electric wheelchair on board.

Further Paris attack plans revealed
A woman whose tip-off allowed police to kill the Paris Attacks ringleader says he planned further attacks including one on a creche, and bragged about entering from Syria.

Iran signs $27 billion Airbus deal
Iran's President has gone on a post-sanctions European shopping trip, buying 118 Airbus jetliners.

Alan Duff: The French - it's complicated
Here are a few reasons why the French are different to us, writes Alan Duff.

Alan Duff: The rules of Paris
Paris, like any big city, really only gets meaning when you have French friends to explain the experience, writes Alan Duff.

Boy's bike dash in dark saves dad's life
A 5-year-old French boy's dash for help on his bike in the dark saved his father's life after he suffered a heart attack.

A year on, Charlie targets God
French magazine marks anniversary of attack with edition which takes aim at 'fanatics' and 'blessed arses'.

Klaus Bosselmann: Paris deal promising, but let's not celebrate yet
At present, the atmosphere resembles a wild, uncontrolled rubbish dump. Polluters are free to sink their carbons into the atmosphere simply because they can, writes Klaus Bosselmann.

Climate accord now likely
The years-long quest for a universal pact to avert catastrophic climate change has neared the finish line with a draft agreement completed in Paris.

Banksy makes a point about refugees
"We're often led to believe migration is a drain on the country's resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant," said Banksy.

The new face of extremism
She's seen as beautiful and glamorous and she's making hard-right policies seem less toxic to voters.

Optimism for climate accord
There's growing optimism in Paris over reaching a landmark agreement to spare future generations the worst impacts of climate change.

Florence Reynolds: Peaceful protest destined to fail
"I write this from my inner city Parisian hostel, nose still stinging from tear gas, sirens drowning out the background traffic noise."

France: King of the castle
Olly Grant steps into the past at Guedelon, built using strictly medieval methods.

France: The angel's scent
Farrah has a nose for divine earthy truffles buried deep in the Bordeaux soil. Catherine Masters meets a talented collie.

Bird flu outbreak in southwest France
France has found a case of deadly bird flu in the foie gras production region of Perigord, in the country's southwest.

Brussels on edge as hunt continues
Belgian security forces are still hunting down suspected Isis militants after making more than a dozen arrests in a series of raids yesterday.