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Tobacco producers will foot cigarette butt clean-up bill, shortest commercial flight in France - just 57 kilometres and 14 minutes -  launched and more

Marlie Kentish Barnes has been a stonemason, lettercutter, and stone-carver for 30 years and now mostly creates personalised funeral memorials and individual jobs to order

The aim of the ‘red team’ of 10 writers is to come up with ideas that soldiers would not have thought of, says the Armies Ministry

Le Pen supporters are said to have ‘ras-le-bol’ with her… We look at what this means

Storms have hit many parts of France in recent days. Here are some French idioms for describing the wet and windy weather 

The police are in the news today after President Macron announced wide scale plans for reforms. We look at some colloquial terms and expressions you might hear in talk about the police and gendarmes in France.

'Wine fairs are the perfect opportunity to discover local wines that are not in the supermarkets or taste and buy wines direct from producers from outside your region'

The Zins family started baking Madeleines when Georges Zins came up with his all-butter recipe at his boulangerie in 1951

Find out why croissants and other delicious French pastries owe an historic debt to the Austrian August Zang, born in 1807

The first written document was sent across the Atlantic Ocean between New York and Paris by fax in August one hundred years ago and more

Starring French British actress Emma Mackey, this new romantic drama centres around engineer Gustave Eiffel at the time when the idea of ​​creating the Eiffel Tower comes about

Yoann Lemoine, who also goes by the name ‘Woodkid’, has previously worked on videos for the Paris 2024 Olympic bid and collaborated with Katy Perry and Taylor Swift

The association Open Gardens/Jardins Ouverts, which raises funds for charity, has a colourful array of green spaces and floral corners to visit this autumn

Our expert ornithologist Jonathan Kemp describes a hazardous journey made by young ducklings near his home that reminds him of the Beatrix Potter book ‘the Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck’. In this case, it is a little bit more Jemima ‘muddle-duck’

Visitors can access the Vulture Observatory free of charge all year round, and can observe these necrophagous birds of prey in their natural environment, at the foot of the Falconnière Cliff

As soon as the law was repealed on June 24, 1950, the exiled monarchs and emperors started to come back to France

Here are a few tidbits about what July 14 - 'Bastille Day' to the uninitiated - is all about in France

Miniature worlds are made as realistic as possible, using multiple wall projectors, speakers and emissions of various scents to create a fully-immersive experience

Concentration camps were not limited to Poland and Germany during World War Two. France had one too, as The Connexion discovered

The Connexion visits the Paris suburb where extraordinarily original architecture is alive once more

The Connexion previews Amiens Cathedral’s astonishing, vivid light show, which runs until December 29

An ode to Roussillon in France's south, a stunning Paris photography book and Didier Fassin's complex investigative read into the killing of Angelo Garand in 2017 

New products, designs and ideas from around France just in time for Christmas 2020

Consumer spending on pets is soaring – and owners are willing to pay more for long-lasting, quality products.