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Official map reveals one in four French homes at flood risk
Avignon, parts of Lot-et-Garonne and the Mediterranean coast are among areas deemed at particular risk in terms of percentage of residents impacted
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EasyJet offers 17 new winter routes to France, including several from UK
Bordeaux, Grenoble, and Lyon see services expanded
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Long queues for opening of Shein store in Paris despite child sex doll row
World-first physical store for Chinese e-commerce giant embroiled in controversy
Regional names allowed in France
Regional languages such as Breton and Corse are nearer to being better supported after MPs backed a law giving protection and allowing diacritic symbols to be used in forenames.
Symbols caused problems when a baby was given the Breton name Fañch as the tilde was not legal.
A top appeal court then allowed it.
The bill now goes to the Senate but it has dropped key provisions for language learning.
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