French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has joined in an MP's campaign against the venerable Petit Robert dictionary for including the pronoun 'iel', a mix of 'elle' and 'il', saying that what has become called 'inclusive' writing 'is not the future of the French language'.
French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has announced plans to develop teaching in secondary schools of Latin and ancient Greek so that pupils will 'develop their culture'.
Sportswear and equipemnt retailer Decathlon has halted sales of canoes in its stores in northern France to prevent them being used in dangerous crossings of the Channel by migrants seeking to reach Britain.
A makeshift camp near the French port of Dunkirk, where an estimated 1,500 migrants hoping to cross the Channel to Britain had gathered, has been evacuated by police.
After mounting public concern and anger at deaths and injuries of pedestrians caused by electric scooters in Paris, rental companies have introduced geo-location systems to automatically apply a 10 kph speed limit to the machines in designated busy areas of the capital.
In a case that has gripped the country, the 17-year-old was found in a state of shock and told police she was held captive by kidnappers but managed to flee.
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Hubert Germain, the last surviving member of the Order of the Liberation who died last month, will be buried with a Cross of Lorraine, symbol of the Resistance.
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