As French politicians head off on holiday, John Lichfield looks back at a turbulent year in French politics and what it all ...

A mysterious online collective has issued a call for a 'total and unlimited' blockade of France from September, in protest at the budget plans of prime minister François Bayrou.

France has started moving some of its most most notorious drug traffickers to a high-security prison as part of a heightened campaign against the narcotics trade.

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati is to go on trial accused of receiving payments from Renault-Nissan while she was a ...

The UK has banned imports of raw milk cheeses from France on Italy on what it says are safety grounds - but the same cheeses ...

The French are, as a nation, subject to quite a few stereotypes and myths, often romantic ones - but how do real French ...

More than 1.6 million people have already signed an online petition in protest at the adoption of an agriculture bill known that includes a measure for the conditional reintroduction of a ...

Several French mayors have imposed night-time curfews on young people, including the southern towns of Limoges, Béziers and ...

Tollbooths are a feature of France's motorway network - but there have been a few changes to the system in recent years.

The American veteran of the Normandy landings known to his thousands of TikTok followers as 'Papa Jake' has died at the age ...

The Elon Musk-owned social network X has announced that it is refusing to co-operate with a French probe into alleged foreign ...

A British woman has died after a white-water rafting accident in the French Alps, the regional prosecutor told AFP on Sunday, ...