French news

Many French people have significantly reduced the amount of meat they eat, leading to an overall drop of 12% meat consumption in France over the past 10 years, a new study has found.

Two founders of France’s first ever “barefoot parks”, have walked 57 kilometres barefoot across Vosges (Grand Est) to celebrate their hobby, businesses, and friendship.

A bike hire service launching today (Friday September 7) in Nantes is to give users “medium and long term” access to bikes - a departure from the usual “single trip” services usually seen in France.

Property, marriage, pacs and inheritance advice offered for free on trains, in cafes and market places for two days later this month

Residents and employees of north Marseille are fighting to keep a McDonald’s restaurant open after it was announced it would be sold and replaced.

French fishermen have agreed with their British counterparts on when and how they can fish for prized Saint-Jacques scallops (coquilles), after talks in London this week addressed recent discord.

A Frenchman has come 8th out of 60 participants in a 12,000 km race from Lyon in France to Canton in China, using only an electric bike entirely powered by solar energy.

After Brexit UK citizens will no longer be in the EU and so I wonder if  a carte de séjour Citoyen UE/EEE/Suisse - Séjour permanent will be valid as it relates to the holder being a citizen of the EU?  J.C.

A new kind of “hybrid” restaurant-bar has opened in Rennes, comprising a hairdresser and barber shop, a tattoo parlour, a motorbike and vintage car workshop, as well as serving food and drinks.

Dunkirk (Nord, ‎Hauts-de-France) has become the first European city with over 200,000 inhabitants to offer free bus transport for all, seven days a week.