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Before the age of photography, and outside of the circles wealthy enough to attract portrait artists, once a person had died, their face would be forgotten. Now, in his Visualforensic workshop within a laboratory of the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Philippe Froesch is using 3D computer technology to make virtual reconstructions of the forgotten faces of history.

The vintage trains now standing at the massive Dépôt de la Chapelle in Paris’s 18th arrondissement will depart in six weeks...

A zoo in the Sarthe gives visitors the chance to spend the night sleeping next to bears, white tigers or wolves. The safari lodges in the Zoo de la Flèche provide luxurious accommodation with just toughened glass between you and the wild animals.

A flotilla of 500 paddlers are expected to take to the River Seine in Paris in the early hours of a cold morning this month.

One of the world’s rarest, biggest and most striking vultures, the bearded vulture, gypaète barbu in French or Lammergeier, is back in the Massif Central, after an absence of almost 100 years.