France saw a buying frenzy in the months after the first pandemic lockdown, but it may not be enough to make up for the lost activity that preceded it.

France’s environment minister has announced a gradual ban in the coming years on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses and on keeping dolphins and killer whales in captivity in marine parks

Doctors certifying that women or girls are virgins could face jail and fines.

Citroën’s ‘urban mobility object’ is classed as a light quadricyle and can be driven without a full licence

France's competition authority ruled on Thursday that Google must pay French publishing companies and news agencies for re-using their content.

Emmanuel Macron admits failings and tells nation that end to crisis not yet in sight

New technology to enforce a new way of life.

France’s lower chamber of the parliament has voted in favor of a controversial law against hate speech on social networks and online platforms. As I described last year, online platforms will have to remove within 24 hours illicit content that has been flagged. Otherwise, companies will have to pay hefty fines every time they infringe the law.

One of the most wanted fugitives in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, a wealthy businessman accused of supplying machetes to killers and broadcasting propaganda urging mass slaughter, has been arrested outside Paris, authorities said Saturday.

VanMoof, the Dutch electric bicycle brand, is officially too hot for (French) television. The company’s first TV advertisement was banned in France for its negative portrayal of car traffic and pollution. The commercial was rejected by France’s advertising regulatory authority, ARPP, because it “discredit[s] the automobile sector [...] while creating a climate of anxiety.”

France's prime minister vowed on Monday to develop "railway highways" to carry food and other goods that now go by truck, part of a government push to reduce the country's carbon footprint.

French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered hunters in southern France to stop the controversial practice of trapping birds on glue-covered twigs. The suspension follows a warning to France from the European Commission that it could face legal action at EU level if the practice continued. France is unusual in Europe for still tolerating the glue method, used to catch thrushes and blackbirds.

A French official’s decision to speak out against a book he said was an “ode to misandry” appears to have backfired after sales of the book in question – “Men, I hate them” (Moi les hommes, je les déteste) – have exceeded expectations, forcing extra print runs after the book sold out just weeks after its publication.

Tour de France rookie Tadej Pogacar is the second youngest to win the event and the youngest since World War II.

Allez c'est parti!

I'm hard to spot from here but i'm actually naked on that photo.

It's all in the title, i hope :)

Jean Marc Le Bihan à Aurillac le 24 août 2013, un musicien autoproduit qui s'improvise orateur publique... Je recommande fortement sa musique jazz franchouillard: http://www.musicme.com/#/Jean-Marc-Le-Bihan/ Jean Marc Le Bihan in Aurillac August 24th 2013, autoproduced musician improvising himself as a public orator (in French)... I highly recommend his frenchy jazz music: http://www.musicme.com/#/Jean-Marc-Le-Bihan/

Jean Gabin by peileppe

La Seine, immortalized by artists and adored by lovers dangling their feet over the quay, harbours a dark secret. Under the fifth and thirteenth arrondissements grumbles la Bièvre, the Seine’s younger sibling who was banished to the netherworld exactly one hundred and one years ago.