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This crowded room is perfect for Jean-Jacques Megel-Nuber who had been searching for a new adventure after a life working in the theatre and events – so he set up a tiny mobile library and bookshop and takes it round festivals.

Introducing Ellen Brennan, a New York Yankee in the French court of extreme sports

Why having a Villes et Villages Fleuris de France label is so important to so many towns and villages

When American journalist Lauren Collins moved to London in 2010, she did not expect to fall in love with a Frenchman and move to France. “I met Olivier almost straight off the plane, and we lived together in London and then moved to Geneva in 2013 and since 2015 we’ve been living on the Left Bank in Paris,” she says.

Cannes Film Festival starts on Wednesday – here we look back at the some of the surprising choices for translations of film names

Words and phrases from the cinema world - just in time to rub shoulders with the glitterati at Cannes ...

Jonathan Hesford argues that the French palate and culture is the reason supermarkets do not stock a lot of imported wine

Organic products have never been so popular, with latest 2016 figures showing more shoppers going “bio”, the opening of new specialists all over France, a rise in the range and amount of organic products in supermarkets and the number of farms converting from conventional methods.

Along with the rise in people switching to organic food in France, some of the shops supplying them have also started to offer vegan and vegetarian foods – and this is a bonus for those who have long struggled to find supplies, especially vegan.

The Cordouan lighthouse was conceived as a beacon and a palace. After centuries of saving lives, continuous work is needed to protect this historic monument

Franco-British castle owner Sébastien de Baritault told Connexion his memories of a filming visit from Roger Moore, who died recently

Uniform famously worn by Napoleon during his exile on St Helena on show for one day forllowing painstaking four-month restoration

But it is only the males who burst into a wide range of songs and calls

Rare fatal incident as 58-year-old killed as he tried to dislodge swarm under roof of nearby house

Thousands of viewers from all over the world log on every day to webcam above birds' nest on rooftop high above busy street

How Youtube is changing the way people read books

One of Napoleon’s last surviving uniforms, and one he wore in exile on the Atlantic island of St Helena, has been restored but is still so fragile it can only be shown for a few days before being stored in the dark.

The Cordouan lighthouse was conceived as a beacon and a palace. After centuries of saving lives, continuous work is needed to protect this historic monument

Every month we will be sharing a photograph of a place in France. This month we take a look at a rocky island commune with a towering gothic abbey, Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy was one of the earliest monuments to be crowned a Unesco World Heritage Site.

At very low tides, shipwrecks still appear on the beaches of Dunkirk, ghostly reminders of one of the most famous episodes of the Second World War.

One of the longest and toughest dog-sled races in the world takes place in the French Alps, drawing thousands of winter sports fans.