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Jane Hanks talks to the artist Blase about how he gives abandoned paintings a fresh twist

Saddle up with Perpignan’s Western rancher Nick Verges

Montier-en-Der, in Haute-Marne, is hosting its annual animal photo festival from October 16-19.

It sounds like a cross between Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang and Around the World in 80 Days, but a French man has driven - and flown - from Paris to London in a single vehicle

A contemporary chandelier-maker was thrilled to be asked to help with the restoration of historic lighting at the famous Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley.

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.

Long-awaited €57million replica of prehistoric art gallery will open in December 2015

In France, members of the public can experience zero gravity during a flight without going into space.

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.