Topic: France 🇫🇷

The Louvre reopened to visitors on Wednesday, three days after thieves pulled off a spectacular jewel heist worth €88 million.

France raised its bird flu alert to the highest level on Wednesday after a rise in new cases in poultry and backyard flocks, triggering stricter biosecurity rules including the confinement of birds.

On Sunday, shortly after the Louvre opened, four burglars made away with eight pieces of jewellery once belonging to French royalty, fleeing the museum on scooters. While experts say the priceless items will be impossible to sell in their current condition, questions are also being raised over sec...

A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over the September theft of gold worth more than €1.5 million from the Natural History Museum in Paris, one of several recent break-ins targeting high-profile French cultural institutions, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.

France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former head of an EU state to be jailed Tuesday, proclaiming his innocence as he entered a Paris prison. Sarkozy's lawyer said a request had been immediately filed for parole but he will remain incarcerated for at least a month.

A tornado tore through districts north of Paris on Monday evening, toppling three construction cranes that killed one person and injured 10 others, four of whom remain in critical condition.

The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed for a second day on Monday as police continued their hunt for the gang who stole priceless pieces of royal jewellery in a daring raid. France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said he would tighten security outside cultural institutions as a result.

The French government is bringing in new requirements for some foreigners in France applying for residency or nationality. There are, however, many exemptions - here's a look at exactly who has to take the new civics test.

A British financial services provider is to be tried in France for alleged complicity in a scam that saw individuals lose millions, a source following the case said on Wednesday.

How your French lessons may be going – with the subjunctive looming

The French government has confirmed that over-65s will, in fact, be exempt from the new French language and civics test requirements for residency cards, which begin in 2026.

There have been calls to cut state funding for France's small regional airports after revelations that many of them are used primarily by private jets.