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Our zeitgeist column looks at the success of a simple French Facebook idea that caught the eye of founder Mark Zuckerberg

One rider, her dog, a pair of horses and 13 legs...

The Connexion discovers the ups and downs of looking after someone else’s home while they are away, from a pair of ‘working retirees’

Rules is rules for French phrases with hyphens

We asked readers for suggestions of French words which look like they come from English but which are not actually used by English speakers. Here is a list of 14 of them - and we give their true meaning. Do you have any to add?

Learning English in France when you are an 'Anglo' is not as simple as you may think, as Clara Villanueva discovered when her daughter started at a new school in France

Capital start-up sells fresh, locally-grown strawberries all year round

This month squash, carrot, and Roquefort cheese are in season.

Caroline Rimbert Craig hails from generations of fruit farmers in Provence, where her great grandfather co-founded the wine co-operative in her family’s native village, Mormoiron. Her new book is a guide to cooking the Provence way, in rhythm with the seasons.

Police were uninterested in a series of disappearances, so relatives started piecing together all the evidence

The Connexion celebrates one of France’s inspirational intellectual figures, who helped shape a global shift in political thinking in the Sixties and Seventies, but who is still defined by her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre...

From Balzac to a big-time bunny, our monthly round up of the arts and culture stories creating a buzz in France

October is an ideal month for birdwatching as many migratory species choose now to fly over France.

Tips and tricks for gardeners indoors and out. This month: plant your winter bulbs, jam–making, and an elephant’s foot plant

Jane Hanks visits a unique botanical conservation centre in Brittany that is saving exotic plants from extinction

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It is one of the most tantalising wonders of French history: the possibility that, if events had taken a different turn, Australia could have become a French colony. Michael Delahaye plays a historical game of 'What If..?'

In the second of a series revealing the history of France’s cities, art historian and medievalist Julia Faiers visits Albi, in the Tarn

The last earthly remains of villages that died for France - The Connexion recounts the history of nine Meuse villages that were destroyed in the First World War, but live on in French memory

The Connexion reports on the recently completed restoration of Napoléon III’s Imperial Theatre in Fontainebleau

Hauteville House, Victor Hugo’s home on Guernsey, has been reopened to the public after an extensive one-year restoration designed to return the house to the way it looked when the author wrote Les Misérables there.

Connexion journalists read the latest French releases. To be fair, each gets 20 minutes’ reading time. This month: As Twilight Fades Away, Requiem in Yquem, Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses, and The Barefoot Girl

New products, designs and ideas from around France. This month: feet, French notebooks, organic soaps and an apéro alternative

John Richardson, who died in March, was a British art historian and friend of Picasso. In his entertaining last book, he revealed how a rundown French castle became his home