15+ hour, 40+ min ago   (710+ words) Airbnb may still have to pay an €8.6million fine for not collecting tourist tax from holiday rentals on the Ile d’Oléron (Charente-Maritime). The platform was fined in April 2025 by the Poitiers Court of Appeal after neglecting to collect the taxe de…...

3+ day, 22+ min ago   (784+ words) Update September 10, 2026: Investigators have confirmed that the gun is not the same one believed to have been used during the 2012 killings. A Luger pistol found by a group of British tourists in Lake Annecy last month may have been used…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1000+ words) France’s ongoing drought crisis continues to disrupt daily life, as 64,000 people remain without access to tap water. This is the number of people “who still need to be supplied by tanker trucks or bottled water for drinking, cooking, and washing,…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (958+ words) A town in south-west France has taken the unusual – and controversial step – of banning residents living in the centre from hanging out clothes to dry in a bid to make it look more ‘aesthetically pleasing’. A municipal decree banning the…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (706+ words) Residents in around 400 French towns and cities are planning to take to the streets for a national day of demonstrations calling for action on climate change. The mobilisation, set to take place on September 26, is organised by the Mouvement du…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (715+ words) Strong winds forecast in north and storms in south as cooler weather arrives Persistent rain and winds reaching nearly 100km/h will impact northern France today, as heightened heatwave alerts officially end in the south. The disturbance, already moving in from…...

1+ mon, 15+ hour ago   (746+ words) Columnist Nick Inman argues that it is time to rectify the imbalance Gustave Eiffel was so pleased with his engineering masterpiece, the icon of Paris, that he wanted it to serve as an enduring symbol of French ingenuity. To share…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (519+ words) City plans to treat dangerously hot homes as unfit for habitation, giving tenants new protections against heatwave overheating Lyon has become the first city in France to call for excessive indoor heat to be considered when assessing whether a home…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (582+ words) New survey highlights France’s enduring influence on English vocabulary Perhaps in an attempt to reclaim some national pride following France’s defeat by England in July’s football World Cup third-place play-off (deemed a booby prize by all accounts, what the French…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1037+ words) British holidaymakers are returning to the Channel coast “in droves”, according to tourism experts, after a downturn in numbers following Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. Britons have made up the largest contingent of foreign tourists this year in both the…...