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Rising star Gontran Cherrier has big plans to bring his baguettes to Britain
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France has vowed to retaliate against the United States for allegedly shutting Europe's aviation giant EADS out of a $50bn (£33.4bn) defence contract, warning of potential damage to the Atlantic alliance.
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The stakes in this month's vote go beyond the local trains, schools and training budgets controlled by the regional councils - especially for Royal, whom many suspect of planning a second run for French president in 2012.
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Philippe Berre, 56, spent five days working with local officials in Charron before he was recognised and caught by police.
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A candidate to head France's discrimination watchdog is "the wrong type of person" because of his Algerian roots and left-wing views, according to Gérard Longuet, a senior member of France's right-wing ruling UMP party
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A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.
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March 12, 2010
March 11, 2010
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Members of France's opposition have blasted President Nicolas Sarkozy’s involvement in the regional elections, claiming Sarkozy is over-stepping his mandate.
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A study on the effects of a French law aimed at reducing Internet piracy has shown that canny "pirates" have plenty of ways to bypass legislation.
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Nice has announced plans to more than double the number of CCTV cameras by the end of this year, becoming the most watched place in France.
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Rumours that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are both having affairs are gaining momentum in France.
March 10, 2010
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French far-right party the Front National (FN) has revealed its latest election poster – a map of France decked in Algerian national colours, covered with minarets and featuring a woman whose face is hidden behind a “niqab” face veil.
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France reported an improved trade deficit and rise in exports on Tuesday, but analysts said a fall in imports carried a threatening sting in the form of weak household spending.
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After mostly ignoring his work for decades, Paris is to give Lucian Freud top billing in a show described as a fresh encounter with one of the world's most expensive living artists.
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Eurotunnel's profits plunged last year as the combination of a fire in late 2008 and the more recent closure caused by cold weather disrupted operations
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The French public are rooting for the silver-haired, mild-mannered son of Polish immigrants who turned vigilante after decades of apparent obstruction in Germany.
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A French resistance heroine who saved more than 100 lives and survived a Nazi death squad has died at the age of 105.
March 09, 2010
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Nuns producing communion wafers shocked to learn that authorities contemplated buying cheaper hosts from Poland
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The French navy has captured 35 piracy suspects off Somalia's coast - hailing it as the most successful mission since EU operations began in 2008.
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A spokesman for the CFTC trade union said shops were taking advantage of the confused rules on what counts as a tourist zone.
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An image of the Virgin Mary has been crying tears of oil, its owner has claimed, in a story that has drawn hundreds of visitors to the man's home in France.
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Government spent €350m on vaccine doses, €150m on wages for medical workers giving the jab, €95m hiring out municipal buildings to use as vaccination centres, €65m sending out the vouchers and €8.5m on syringes. Other costs included €150m on masks, €145m in social security refunds for doctors' consultations, €20m on Tamiflu doses and a €5.6m advertising campaign.
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France urged international financial bodies to fund a new era of global nuclear power on Monday and pitched its own reactor technology as the model to follow.
March 08, 2010
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Protest network Sortir du Nucléaire says leaked EDF documents show reactor's defects could cause massive nuclear accident
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French president says eurozone will stand by Greece should it need financial help
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The offspring of German soldiers and French women born during the occupation were cruelly shunned
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The wines worst affected include some of the most prestigious in Burgundy, including Meursault and Montrachet.
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The jazz guitar of Django Reinhardt remains a signature soundtrack of Paris. In the centenary of his birth, Gemma Ware goes in search of the cafes that still swing to his tunes
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US singer Stevie Wonder has collected one of France's top cultural honours in Paris, 30 years after he was first named to receive it.
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French scientists claim some babies could have fault in regulation of heartbeat that makes it slow down and stop
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British buyers are warned to tread carefully after a decision to crack down on the holiday lettings market
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Workers whose employers give them tickets-restaurant to pay for lunch can buy any fruit, veg or prepared salad from a greengrocer. The only rule is that it must be ready to eat.
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During his 18-year exile in France, Frederic Chopin was a regular visitor to a two-storey house on a quiet street in Paris where the Polish composer often performed for friends and renowned artists.
March 06, 2010
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David Cameron is planning to meet Nicolas Sarkozy for the first time in two years when the French president comes to London, it has been reported.
March 05, 2010
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Clad in her leopard-skin shrug and dark sunglasses, 69-year-old Ruth Flowers has conquered French clubland from the Cannes Film Festival to the top Paris nightspots with a mix of old-school hits, electrobeat and bling-bling style.
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A government-commissioned report is advising French university canteens to hold wine-tasting sessions.
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Long after Hemingway and the Beats, the Shakespeare and Company bookshop is still encouraging Paris to read and write
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The French Energy Regulation Commission, CRE, said competing energy firms including Direct Energie and Poweo had doubled their customer numbers last year, up from 698,000 at the end of 2008.
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