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 ...

A driver “shouting Allahu Akbar” has ploughed his car into a crowd of pedestrians on a French holiday island. The male driver ...

The 35-year-old suspect reportedly attempted to set fire to his car in Ile d’Oleron, with a number of gas cylinders inside ...

France’s prime minister proposed on Tuesday the elimination of two public holidays from the country’s annual calendar — possibly Easter Monday and the day marking the Allied victory over the Nazis — ...

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Several pedestrians and cyclists were injured this Wednesday, 5 November after a vehicle drove into members of the public in ...

Uniworld Boutique River Cruises has announced the newest addition to its Holiday Collection for the 2025 season with a brand-new itinerary along the Seine. The seven-night ‘Magical Parisian Holiday’ ...

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 ...

The French government wants to eliminate the Pentecost holiday in order to save money. The holiday always falls on a Monday — this year it is May 16. French workers are not happy about eliminating one ...

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 ...