On Thursday, on the patron saint's day of bakers and pastry chefs, the French Post Office unveiled a scratch-and-sniff postal stamp costing €1,96 to celebrate the famous baguette bread shape

The candidature of the French Alps, proposed as a preference vote by the International Olympic Committee in June to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2030, has been approved - subject to France providing financial guarantees

For the 2024 Olympic Games, France, the host country, has banned Muslim women from wearing the sports hijab or any other form of religious headgear when competing for France

Analyses carried out by the Paris administration and the regional prefecture detected "alarmingly high” levels of Escherichia coli in the river Seine making it not swimmable and therefore not ready for the triathlon competitions of the Olympics

Around a quarter of a million demonstrators protested across France against the rise of the far right, calling on citizens to prevent it from taking power in early parliamentary elections