Les Menuires has long been dubbed the forgotten child of the giant Trois Vallées ski area. Now, a year after celebrating its ...

DRIVING to France on holidays is set to get more expensive for families under plans for a new road tax in the Budget.

Public holidays are referred to as national holidays in France and are also called fêtes or jours fériés. They are very important to the French as they firmly believe in a good life-work balance and ...

On 31 January, two French unions representing workers in ski resorts plan to start unlimited strike action during February. It's the busiest time of year for resorts and threatens to upset lots of ...

Proposal to secularize the civic calendar prompts controversy. Debates about the place of Christianity in public life regularly resurface in Europe. Recently, after the Pentecost Monday holiday, the ...

French news junkies have looked on in horror over the past few months as America’s most august papers slashed staffs and in some cases morphed into exclusively online entities to weather the worst ...