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Parisians are rude, say French
Parisians are traditionally viewed as rude, arrogant and unwelcoming in the popular British imagination.
02 Mar 2010
Rwanda's former first lady arrested in Paris
The widow of Juvenal Habyarimana, Rwanda's former president whose assassination sparked the country's genocide in 1994, was arrested near Paris on Tuesday, police said.
02 Mar 2010
Workers kidnap managers in dispute over job cuts
Workers kidnapped two managers from German electrical and engineering group Siemens AG and held them overnight at a site in southeastern France as part of a dispute over job cuts at the facility.
02 Mar 2010
French medieval statues march in New York
In a sense, they've spent the last five centuries walking, but 37 statues from a French nobleman's tomb are on their biggest journey yet, to an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
02 Mar 2010
Michelin stars for village chef
Gilles Goujon shed tears of joy after learning his L'Auberge du Vieux Puits, tucked in a village in southern France, won a coveted third star Monday from the arbiter of fine dining, the Michelin Red Guide.
02 Mar 2010
Oligarch loses deposit on most expensive house in the world
A Russian billionaire has lost a 40 million (£36 million) deposit on a sprawling villa on the French Riviera after a court in Nice refused to return the lump sum.
02 Mar 2010
Napoleon-era sea walls blamed for storm deaths
Decaying sea walls going back to the time of Napoleon were being blamed for the deaths of at least 50 people in violent storms which ravaged France.
01 Mar 2010
French storm death toll expected to rise
Authorities in France fear the death toll will rise following a huge storm that swept through western Europe at the weekend.
01 Mar 2010
'To confess your sins, press two'
A telephone line for French Catholics to confess their sins has been condemned by bishops.
01 Mar 2010
French storms declared 'national disaster' by Sarkozy
The storms which battered France, leaving nearly 60 people dead, have been declared a "national disaster", by Nicolas Sarkozy.
01 Mar 2010
France seeking emergency aid from EU after killer storms
France is seeking emergency aid from the European Union after the fiercest storms in a decade left 47 people dead.
01 Mar 2010
Spring delayed as big freeze continues
As Britain’s arctic winter was officially declared the coldest in 30 years, more bad weather is set to herald the start of spring.
01 Mar 2010
Violent storm kills more than 50 in Europe
Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western have killed at least 53 people across Europe and left more than one million households without power.
01 Mar 2010
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50 killed as storms batter French coast
More damage feared as powerful storm heads toward Britain, after lashing western Europe over the weekend.
28 Feb 2010
ETA leader arrested in France
French and Spanish security forces dealt a big blow to ETA on Sunday with the arrest in north-west France of the alleged leader of the Basque separatist movement.
28 Feb 2010
ETA leader arrested in France
Ibon Gogeascoechea, the leader of armed Basque separatists ETA, was caught on Sunday in northern France, the Spanish Interior Ministry said, in what was the latest blow to a group weakened by hundreds of arrests.
28 Feb 2010
On the slippery slope to broken dreams
February is the peak month for skiing injuries, and despite recent publicity about wearing helmets, skiers remain cavalier about safety. Harriet Alexander reports.
28 Feb 2010
French publish sexy calendar in cheese fight
Charles de Gaulle famously bemoaned the difficulties involved in running a country with 246 different types of cheese.
26 Feb 2010
Sarkozy makes Rwanda promise
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said those responsible for genocide in Rwanda should be hunted down, even if they live in France.
26 Feb 2010
Endangered French bistros plead for help
The owner of a bistro in the french village of Fontenay-Saint-Père has launched an online appeal to save his struggling business, in a case that highlights the plight of the country's once-popular watering holes.
26 Feb 2010
Sarkozy admits Rwanda errors
French President Nicolas Sarkozy acknowledged on Thursday that France made mistakes during the 1994 Rwanda genocide, but stopped short of apologising during his landmark visit to the country Thursday.
26 Feb 2010
Frogs and toads need road crossings, French say
An animal protection group is urging French authorities to build special crossings to save millions of frogs and toads from being squashed on the country's roads.
26 Feb 2010
New booze on the block - 'natural' wines
When Marcel Lapierre took over the family vineyard in Burgundy decades ago, the pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and other chemicals used in farming had made the wine 'simply horrid'.
25 Feb 2010
Anti-smoking advert with sexual innuendo shocks French
An anti-smoking advertisement showing teenagers in a pose suggesting fellatio with a cigarette has caused an uproar in France, with critics arguing it is offensive and suggests a false analogy between oral sex and smoking.
24 Feb 2010
SNCF Romanian warning
France's national railway provoked a race row after producing a poster warning passengers to be on the look out for Romanians.
23 Feb 2010
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