Attention to detail is the all-important ingredient in the business of making champagne, says Francois Hautekeur.

France's most prestigious newspaper is up for grabs.

Geoff Cumming cruises the waterways of France and has a cliched but perfect experience.

Images of the writer and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - probably taken just before his death - have surfaced in France.

Troubled by dysfunction in the Franco-German alliance, European leaders head towards a summit on Friday.

The Independent's Nick Duerden wonders why the UK has such different views on children in restaurants to the rest of Europe.

After the excesses of his epic World War I tale A Very Long Engagement, Jeunet seems to have to returned to the imaginative worlds of his earlier works.

Stephanie Beck discovers endless ways to savour the delicacy.

Our taste for haute cuisine and fine wine is nothing new, writes The Independent's Ferdinand Mount.

Finau Maka has been accused of treating a young Tunisian man living with his family with 'utter indignity'.

Venus Williams has been playing at the French Open in a revealing black lace dress with a plunging neckline and bright red straps.

Public concern over "apero geants", or giant open-air drinks parties, is growing after the horrific death of a student in France.

A family holiday teaches John Walsh that teenagers simply want to wander, discover, and most of all - never be pushed into Being Impressed.

Schoolchildren in several French towns have joined wildcat strikes against a government plan to cut a month from their summer holidays.

Scott packages his elements well, going for gritty realism in the battle scenes... But his take on this myth is as chilly as a northerly wind.