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France faces rising political violence ahead of crucial elections, with attacks on lawmakers sparking fears of unrest and calls for a peaceful electoral pr...

French striker Kylian Mbappé said Sunday’s runoff vote is an ‘urgent situation’, adding: ‘We can’t let our country fall into the hands of these people’

Big rival Jasper Philipsen second but then relegated, with Mark Cavendish down in 20th

France is reviving its industrial farming of hemp – 'green gold' – in the search for more sustainable, energy-saving building materials. French publishers are flocking to romance, as a new generation of authors are writing for a new and growing audience of young women readers. And when Paris hosted the…

Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) has worked hard to shed its far-right extremist roots, but the party's more respectable image has been tarnished by a series of controversies involving candidates who qualified for the final round of the legislative elections on July 7.

It comes as several French election candidates have reported being attacked on the campaign trail

In her constituency in northern France, former prime minister Elisabeth Borne is counting on support from left-wing voters to hold her seat, even if many refuse to forget her role in passing a controversial pension reform.

Culture reporter Olivia Salazar-Winspear speaks to Eve Jackson about the highlights from the Avignon Theatre Festival in the south of France, including Greek tragedy "Hecuba, not Hecuba" from the event's artistic director Tiago Rodrigues, and French director Boris Charmatz's delightful outdoor style rave "Circles". The directors also comment on the…

After defeating France three years ago, Steven Zuber refuses to set limits on what Swiss can achieve in Düsseldorf