The terrorists who carried out the attacks on the Brussels airport and metro had initially planned an attack on France instead, the Belgian federal prosecutor said.

Stop! This is the empire of the dead, reads a sign greeting visitors at the entrance to the two-kilometre long tunnels filled with bones, writes Patrick Fort.

France's national army museum has recreated the home where Napoleon lived his final years.

Air France stewardesses, furious at being ordered to wear headscarves in Tehran, say they will refuse to fly to the Iranian capital when the airline resumes.

It being midday and the sun being out, the mayor of Volvic was on the beer. Not the famous local water.

The Louvre, as a famous museum, even has a museum celebrating its own history. It's in two sections across a hall near the entrance and is well worth a few minutes.

More than a dozen humanitarian and nongovernmental organisations yesterday accused local authorities in France of brutality against migrants as the demolition of a shantytown known as "the....

French parents are being warned to stop posting pictures of children on social networks in case their offspring later sue them for breaching their privacy.

Residents of French Polynesia who suffered because of 30 years of French nuclear tests have a legitimate right to compensation, President Francois Hollande said.

Of course it is possible to take the Metro from the Eiffel Tower to Montmartre but Paris is a wonderful city to explore on foot.

Quan, half-Vietnamese, half-French, is a Greeter. A half-dozen times a year, he gives up a day to play host to visitors who want the inside story on his city.

The owner of a Michelin-ranked restaurant has banned bankers from his eatery in revenge for being denied a business loan.

Provision would give employees the right to ignore professional emails and other messages when outside the office.

Liberty, equality, fraternity - and now, the "right to disconnect".

A disabled rights campaigner has blasted Air France for "nearly ruining his honeymoon" after they refused to allow his electric wheelchair on board.

A woman whose tip-off allowed police to kill the Paris Attacks ringleader says he planned further attacks including one on a creche, and bragged about entering from Syria.

Iran's President has gone on a post-sanctions European shopping trip, buying 118 Airbus jetliners.

A 5-year-old French boy's dash for help on his bike in the dark saved his father's life after he suffered a heart attack.

French magazine marks anniversary of attack with edition which takes aim at 'fanatics' and 'blessed arses'.

Doggy bags have long been frowned upon in France but restaurants are now legally obliged to provide them if requested by diners.

Sitting at the edge of the Mediterranean on the Cote d'Azur, Nice is a region of beauty and diversity.

At present, the atmosphere resembles a wild, uncontrolled rubbish dump. Polluters are free to sink their carbons into the atmosphere simply because they can, writes Klaus Bosselmann.

The years-long quest for a universal pact to avert catastrophic climate change has neared the finish line with a draft agreement completed in Paris.

"We're often led to believe migration is a drain on the country's resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant," said Banksy.

She's seen as beautiful and glamorous and she's making hard-right policies seem less toxic to voters.

There's growing optimism in Paris over reaching a landmark agreement to spare future generations the worst impacts of climate change.

"I write this from my inner city Parisian hostel, nose still stinging from tear gas, sirens drowning out the background traffic noise."

Olly Grant steps into the past at Guedelon, built using strictly medieval methods.