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Property sharing company Airbnb has worked with the Louvre museum in Paris to offer “a night with the Mona Lisa” competition, as part of the 30 year celebrations of the museum’s famous pyramid.

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Two anti-meat and activists have been jailed, and two others handed suspended sentences, for their part in attacking butcher’s shops, restaurants and businesses in the Hauts-de-France last year.

Princess Anne among the dignitaries at an event to commemorate bravery of SOE agents during World War Two

Lawyers acting for the property's owners tell Connexion the €13-to-enter web-based competition to win a large property in southwest France is above board

Good drivers, keep it up: Gendarmes in the Oise department (Hauts-de-France) have been stopping drivers not for bad behaviour, but to reward them for good driving with cash prizes of up to €200 each.

A legal case seeking to protect the EU rights of British people in the case of a no-deal Brexit is not urgent because the French no-deal laws guarantee a year of legal residency, a top French court has ruled.

Portable toilets have been set up along the A16 motorway between Calais and Dunkerque due to the jams caused by customs worker protests and in anticipation of more after Brexit, French media report.

Meat and cheese products from the UK – whether a Cornish pasty, Wensleydale cheese or jar of Bovril – could not be brought into France by travellers from the UK in the case of a no-deal Brexit, the EU has confirmed.

There are usually no more than 15 earthquakes strong enough to trigger seismic alerts in France in a year. This was the 25th, but experts explain there is no cause for concern

40-year-old prosecuted for "breach of trust and complicity in slaughter outside a slaughterhouse under illegal conditions"

As spring approaches and strawberries come into season, experts have given advice on buying the best fruit, as well as storing it and preparing it for optimum flavour.

A €1.5 million, 450m2 gîte property with a pool is being sold in Périgord (Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine) via an online lottery game that costs just €13 to enter, and which is still open to entries.

Just over 22,300 people came out for the 21st gilets jaunes protest across France this weekend, which saw the lowest numbers since the movement began, according to official figures.

The change in popular boy and girl names in France over the past 100 years has been documented and visualised in a new way, allowing people to “better understand the evolution of French society”.

France has told the EU it is getting ready to offer a simple way of applying for residency cards to Britons in the case of a no-deal Brexit.