Topic: France 🇫🇷

France’s Culture Ministry announced on Monday the architects and landscape designers chosen for the Louvre Museum’s planned €700-800 million revamp in Paris.

France's justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, was in the Algerian capital Algiers on Monday for talks with his counterpart Lotfi Boudjemaa over more cooperation in tackling crime and the possible release of the jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G7 nations gather on Monday in Paris where they will try and settle differences on everything from the stalemate in Iran, securing supply chains for critical minerals and the oil-price shock. As host, France will try and keep the plates spinning. 

In a quarry between Nantes and Rennes, DJ Maël Péneau once played drum and bass records for three days straight to thousands of "free party" ravers. Thirty years on, a proposed law would put the organisers of events like these behind bars. 

Around 10 "new" suspected victims have come forward in a French probe into the network of late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a Paris prosecutor said Sunday.

The head of France's biggest film producer, Canal+, said Sunday that the group would no longer work with 600 industry professionals who signed a petition against right-wing billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré.

France’s dozens of regional languages may no longer be spoken by many, but they live on in regional accents, colouring vowel sounds and shaping intonation. More than half the country speaks French with an accent, yet they remain a disadvantage in the upper echelons of power and professional life....

If you're a foreigner in France, you may be declaring income from another country - here's how to do your currency conversions.

Being an American in France makes tax season especially complicated due to the US policy of citizen-based taxation. The Local has come up with a list of the common tax traps Americans in France find themselves navigating.

The 2028 Tour de France will embark from Reims in the French champagne region, organisers ASO revealed on Monday.

The number of people refused entry to the EU and Schengen area has risen dramatically, according to new statistics, while thousands of US, UK and Indian nationals have been found to be illegally present in EU/Schengen countries.

Dogs will be allowed on one of the normally tightly controlled beaches in Cannes that was renamed on Monday after late film legend-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot.