On a recent trip to France, my mission was to eat like a French woman - or at least to find out just how they stay so slim. This is a country where on one corner, you find a boulangerie with mouth ...

By Tassilo Hummel and Makini Brice PARIS (Reuters) -Targeted tax rises and spending cuts will be required to narrow France's ...

French consumer confidence unexpectedly rose in September to the highest level since February 2022, the month that Russia ...

France finally has a new government, but it is unclear how long it will survive, so the political uncertainty hanging over ...

But a well-meaning parent can too-easily squelch this budding autonomy. How? By doing everything for the child. French parenting counteracts that philosophy by treating children more like adults ...

If you want to say something about yourself in French, you use the word for 'I' – Je. Did you notice that the word for 'call' is before the word for 'you'? Sometimes the order of the words is ...

purple In French, nouns belong to either a masculine or feminine group. So an adjective needs to be either masculine or feminine, like the noun it is describing. This means that the spelling of ...

The "tricolore" (three-colour) flag is an emblem of the Fifth Republic. It had its origins in the union, at the time of the French Revolution, of the colours of the King (white) and the City of Paris ...

Unlike in British English, Americans frequently use the word ‘skunk’ as a verb as well. When you say that the rival team ‘skunked’ you, what you mean is that they defeated you quite badly ...

More than 300 million people speak French on the five continents. The OIF, an international organisation of French-speaking countries, comprises 88 member States and governments. French is the second ...