A cleaner who was molested at a Paris luxury hotel by a Qatari guest in 2010 has been awarded €57,000 ($63,500), according to a court ruling seen Friday by AFP.
A French startup is taking over the hotel world by offering clients special prices to rent rooms by the hour. And the French themselves are showing a lustful appetite for the offers. But it's not all about mistresses and affairs apparently.
Plans are afoot to install a "water wheel hotel" on the banks of the River Seine that would see guests sleep in rotating pods that rise and fall above the City of Light.
With the Palace of Versailles potentially soon set to open its doors to overnight guests, we take a look at some of the other unusual holiday accommodation options in France - from enormous bubbles to treetop hangouts.
How would you like to spend the night as a French king in Versailles? This dream may soon be possible as the Palace of Versailles considers turning some of its mansions into a luxury hotel.
Chinese tourism giant Jin Jiang has signed a deal with US investment group Starwood to buy a string of French budget hotels, the two companies said on Wednesday.
A rebellion among hotel workers at some of Paris's luxury hotels continued this week with staff at the deluxe Royal Monceau-Raffles - where the presidential suite costs €25,000 a night - staging a walk-out to protest over their low wages.
In a scene that could have been taken from a Hollywood screenplay, crooks wearing zoro-masks robbed a wealthy American couple at a luxury French hotel at the weekend, cutting the terrified woman's €180,000 ring from her finger.
Hotel owners in France were howling in protest on Friday over a proposed 500 percent increase in the country's hotel tax. The hike would be even more severe in Paris, which sees some 30 million foreign visitors a year.
A Hong Kong investment group has announced it is buying a plush Champs Elysées hotel, which it plans to market to Chinese visitors. The deal comes at a time when the number of Chinese tourists visiting France is at an all-time high.
A blaze engulfed the 17th century Hôtel Lambert on Île Saint-Louis in the 4th arrondissement of Paris overnight on Wednesday. France's culture minister said the historic mansion has been damaged "irreversibly" but its owners - the Qatari royal family told the minister they will restore it.
A 400-year-old masterpiece that only came to light during a renovation at Paris's Ritz hotel has been sold for €1.44 million to New York's Metropolitan Museum, auction house Christie's said on Thursday.
It is the art world's equivalent of finding a precious gold coin down the back of a sofa. A major renovation at Paris's legendary Ritz hotel has resulted in the discovery of a painting thought to be the work of 17th century artist Charles Le Brun that nobody knew was there.
<p><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Paris's luxury Ritz hotel, owed by Mohamed Al-Fayed, is set to close its doors to customers this summer for a €140 million renovation.</span></p>
