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Hazelnut, chocolate… pork? France’s traditional galette des rois gets a modern makeover
January 6 marks Epiphany and the famous galette, eaten across France
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France school holidays: 2026–27 dates confirmed
An additional day will be given in May 2027 as it falls between two public holidays
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French doctors begin 10-day strike: most GP surgeries expected to close
Patients needing care should turn to pharmacies, on-call doctors, or emergency wards
MPs try again to ban smacking children
A law which would make France the 55th country in the world, and the 23rd in the EU, to legally ban the smacking of children was due to be debated by MPs at the end of November.
The latest anti-smacking proposal comes nearly two years after France’s Constitutional Council struck down the last attempt to outlaw physical punishment against children on technical grounds.
