Every year, the TV channel France 3 runs a competition to find the best-loved villages in France. It's one of the most popular events of the TV calendar, attracting around 2 million viewers, and it's also a great way to discover some more off-the-beaten track places to visit in France. So here are the 14 finalists for 2021.
One of the world's biggest theatre festivals gets underway on Monday in the southern French city of Avignon after a year-long hiatus caused by Covid-19, with masks compulsory for audiences but organisers relishing a return to relative normality.
Residents in the south west France will have to wait at least another week before Covid-19 restrictions are lifted amid concern over the spread of the Delta variant of the virus.
A scramble by Parisians for homes in France's picturesque southwestern Basque region is fanning a nationalist backlash in a region with a troubled past.
France has officially launched its summer heatwave plan, which this year includes text messages sent to the most vulnerable and communications translated into English for the first time.
France is opening up to tourism for fully vaccinated travellers, but the French are also being urged to holiday in France this year - which means that some parts of the country may be even busier than a normal summer.
Half the adult population in France will have had at least one dose of vaccine against Covid-19 by the end of Wednesday, but 'warning signs' in the south west of France mean it would be unwise to speed up the process of reopening, the government says.
The terraces of France's bars, restaurants and cafés are set to reopen from May 19th - but while many people will be looking forward to sitting down for a drink with friends and family for the first time since October, the weather has other ideas.
A former French soldier who has admitted to killing an eight-year-old girl in a case that shook the country nearly four years ago was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for beating a fellow soldier to death just a few months before.
The French serial killer dubbed the 'Ogre of the Ardennes', who was serving two life sentences for murdering eight people, died on Monday aged 79, Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said.
With travel restrictions lifted in France, trips away are once again be possible, but there are still plenty of restrictions, plus health advice on avoiding too much close contact. So we've rounded up 10 of the best trips with fresh air and social distancing.
A Belgian farmer risked triggering an international incident by moving an old stone boundary marker that has denoted his country's border with France since the 1820 Treaty of Kortrijk.
A project to create a new direct connection between Paris and Toulouse has been accelerated, with the three-hour connection now scheduled to start in 2024, five years ahead of schedule.
Workers at a Renault car parts factory in northwest France held seven managers against their will for some 12 hours on Tuesday in an attempt to prevent the plant being sold, the company and union reps said.
The north-eastern French town of Bitche had its official Facebook page removed without any explanation - although many have supposed the reason is its somewhat unfortunate name.
More than 6,000 mostly unmasked people took part in an illegal street party in the southern French city of Marseille at the weekend, leading to condemnation of an "unaccceptable" breach of Covid-19 rules.
An 88-year-old man caught speeding at a breakneck 191 kilometres per hour on a French country road told officers that he was late for his Covid-19 vaccine appointment, police said.
The day after the announcement that Nice and the French Riviera would be subject to a weekend lockdown, the French PM has joined calls for extra measures in the northern French town of Dunkerque.
