It being midday and the sun being out, the mayor of Volvic was on the beer. Not the famous local water.

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.

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....

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.

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.

Now is the time to relish the warm sea air and deserted beaches of Languedoc-Roussillon - land of pastis, seafood and rugby.

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

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.

Provision would give employees the right to ignore professional emails and other messages when outside the office.

Liberty, equality, fraternity - and now, the "right to disconnect".

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

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's President has gone on a post-sanctions European shopping trip, buying 118 Airbus jetliners.

Here are a few reasons why the French are different to us, writes Alan Duff.

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

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.

French magazine marks anniversary of attack with edition which takes aim at 'fanatics' and 'blessed arses'.

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.

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.

"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.

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

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

"I write this from my inner city Parisian hostel, nose still stinging from tear gas, sirens drowning out the background traffic noise."

Olly Grant steps into the past at Guedelon, built using strictly medieval methods.

Farrah has a nose for divine earthy truffles buried deep in the Bordeaux soil. Catherine Masters meets a talented collie.

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

Belgian security forces are still hunting down suspected Isis militants after making more than a dozen arrests in a series of raids yesterday.