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Le combat du Contrat Première Embauche
The battle of over employment conditions for young people raises questions about the nature of the society we wish to live in.
Pour lutter contre la grippe aviaire
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin sets out France's bird flu pandemic action plan
Dans le temple des francs-maçons
Why the mysterious rituals of Freemasonry still have their followers
Au salon nautique
From exotic adventure to backwater comforts, there's something for everyone at the Paris boat show
Le jardin de Chateaubriand
Chateaubriand's passion for trees has left the Parisian suburbs with a wonderful inheritance.
Une promenade au jardin des Tuileries
Twenty-six hectares of parkland in the centre of Paris. A walk in the Jardin des Tuileries.
Montréal
Montreal - incubator of French culture
Mémoires de François Mitterrand
Brilliant, charismatic, flawed. On the 10th anniversary of his death, Mitterrand's career remains a benchmark of the political art. But what do his old supporters now think?
Les aînés du quartier
As riots shake France, residents of the suburb where it all started give their view of events.
Jules Verne
100 years on: why Jules Verne's blend of science, fantasy and pulsating drama stands the test of time.
Une visite aux égouts de Paris
It's clean water they fear most. The upside down world of the Paris sewage network.
Accents de France
Wherever you are in France, if you ear is sufficiently alert you can notice different intonations and turns of phrase : the accents of France.
Le nouvel Airbus A380 s'envole
On the tarmac in Toulouse for the launch of the giant Airbus A380.
Une arrivée du Tour de France
When the Tour de France arrives in town it's more than a sporting occasion - it's a festival for all to enjoy.
Au squat de Cachan
A deadly series of house fires in Paris has brought home the grim consequences of the capital's housing shortage.
La France dit non
France says no a market-dominated Europe. So is the French model any better?
Pierre Courbertin et les Jeux Olympiques
The French Baron whose drive brought the modern Olympic movement to life.
Qui peut battre Ferrari?
Who can beat Ferrari? Meet the Renault team attempting to end Schumacher's Formula 1 reign.
L'affaire D'Outreau
A tragic miscarriage of justice puts the controversial role of investigating magistrates under the spotlight
A la chasse en Martinique
Hunting in the French caribbean: the action may be scarce, but at least you don't have to worry about the tigers.
C'est de l'amour véritable!
A Valentine's tale of true love...
Rêves de Paris
The world over people dream of coming to Paris in search of a better life.
Romain Bouteille
An interview with the godfather of French satirical comedy.
J'ai pas envie d'arrêter la cam
Fancy rigging up a 24 hour webcam in your home? It's the perfect remedy for messy old real life.
Les combats de coqs
Inside the cock-fighting arenas of Martinique
Les Feux de l'amour
Autumn approaches, the nights draw in. Time to tune in to your favorite soap opera.
L'huissier de justice
Enforcing justice is a job that requires courage, determination and tact.
Exhumation!
Digging up your loved ones to bring them home may seem like a nice idea... but beware of ghoulish surprises.
Je vais construire ma propre maison!
Building your own home with wood and straw in the foothills of the Pyrenees.
La richesse de la Belgique
Separatist tensions marr Beglium's anniversary party
Vivre dans un monde violent
As terrorism continues to dominate the world agenda, youngsters from the suburbs of Paris reflect on its causes and consequences
Le château de Guédelon
How do you get into the mind of 13th century castle builders? You build one yourself...
Le nouveau Chablis
Chablis wine has seen off war, disease and revolution and now its famous smoky dry taste is atttracting a new generation of admirers.
Le festival d'Angoulême
A visit to the international comic book festival at Angoulême
La lumière d'Auvers-sur-Oise
The town that was inspiration to the impressionist artists - and saw the last days of Vincent Van Gogh
Dedans, il y a tout un passé
If you don't get arrested you might just get commissioned in the tags to riches world of graffiti art.
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Ils habillent le Pape
So just what were those capes all about? The futurist dress sense of John Paul II.
Sur les pas de l'armée de Napoléon
How Napoleon's rule is seen in contemporary France.
Le retour aux racines
Discrete yet stylish? Flamboyant and exotic? Gardens are an extension of personality and you can meet all sorts at "La Foire aux plantes rares".
Très sweety
It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that string - why lingerie is such big business
Les élections sénatoriales
The French Senate: bastion of power for country bumpkins?
Jean-Marie Le Pen bouleverse les élections
Jean-Marie Le Pen reaches the second round of the Presidential elections.
Alain Madelin
The lonely voice of liberal economics.
Lionel Jospin, premier ministre
Prime minister Lionel Jospin lends his support to local election campaigning.
La parité
New positive discrimination laws are designed to give women a stronger say in French politics
Massaro - une dynastie de bottiers
Shoemakers to the glamorous for more than a century. «La maison Massaro» is the subject of a stunning retrospective at the International Shoe Museum in Romans.
Chapeau
Lock-up your rabbits as we visit the once thriving world of French hatmaking.
Voici des ailes
They're so fast you can crush foxes: how the nascent advertising industry sold the bicycle.
Le départ d'Yves Saint Laurent
A great name in fashion calls it a day.
La lutte contre les OGM est relancée
French farmers' leader Gérard Boinon on why Genetically Modified crops are the final straw.
La migration des oiseaux
A shortage of insects is proving tough on the bird population.
Le parc éolien de Bouin
With nuclear energy out of fashion, France turns to windpower in the battle to control global warming.
La réforme de la pêche
How can we protect fishing stocks and fishermen?
L'envie de faire de la belle musique
The tale of France's Oscar nominee is as moving as the film itself
«Playtime» de Jacques Tati
A masterpiece from the comedy genius is reissued.
Images et scénarios
Bilingual film scripts are an entertaining way of freshening up your French.
Cet amour-là: un entretien avec Jeanne Moreau
The famous actress stars in a new film about Marguerite Duras.
Transparences
Ayerdhal's new thriller Transparences is a sizzler. The science fiction author explains what brought him back to earth.
Écrivains de la mer
On board with René Moniot-Beaumont for a fascinating tour of French maritime literature.
Sang d'encre!
What makes them type? France's leading thriller writers on the art of the 'polar'.
Simenon à la Pléiade
A luxurious new edition is a must buy for fans of the Maigret author.
Maigret chez les sociologues
A sociologist's view of Simenon's famous detective.
Pierre Loti
A voyage on the frontiers of respectability.
Alexandre Dumas au Panthéon
The mortal remains of the popular novelist are transfered to the home of the greats. But what will the neighbours say?
Le Sacre de Napoléon
200 years after Napoleon was crowned Emperor, the Louvre museum explores the masterpiece that both captured and transformed the event for posterity
Un entretien avec Claire Brétécher
The cartoonist Claire Brétécher talks to La Guinguette about her new collection 'Allergies'
Etudes cézaniennes
He considered himself the greatest painter of his generation, yet Cézanne didn't finish a single picture during the last decade of his life. Jean-Claude Lebensztejn explains why.
La sculpture de Paul Gauguin
The forgotten sculptures of Paul Gauguin.
Les enchères
Buffet (Bernard) goes under the hammer.
Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur les escargots
And yes they do have a taste! All you never really wanted to know about eating snails.
Les diamants noirs
The truffle season is in full swing - but you'll need an expert eye to sift the diamonds from the fakes
Comment goûter un vin... en gardant son sérieux
You don't have to gargle! The complete guide to tasting wine with elegance and discretion.
Du vrai bon pain
He's up at two every morning, determined to deliver the best bread in town.
Des bouteilles extraordinaires
Fancy a bottle of Madeira dated 1789? Head for a wine auction, but be prepared to dig deep into your pockets.
Étienne Boissy - meilleur ouvrier de France - fromager
Guaranteed to make your mouth water. Étienne Boissy «meilleur ouvrier de France» on the art of serving cheese.
Les marais salants
Natural sea salt is making a comeback against commercial opposition.
Nicolas Le Bec, nouvelle étoile de la cuisine française
Secrets of success from the new prodigy of French cuisine.
A table au XIXe siècle
How France evolved as a focus of international haute cuisine
A vos réveillons!
Christmas delights at a gastronomic marketplace.
Le chocolat
In the kitchens of a master chocolate maker.
La France se dote d'une nouvelle Marianne
A new look for French stamps and she's still as young as ever. Marianne and the eternal youth of the French Republic.
Le crieur public
Find out why the crowds just keep on growing for the 21st century town crier.
Marie-Antoinette: le pouvoir halluciné d'une femme
Did she really deserve that? How Marie-Antoinette became the victim of Revolutionary fantasy.
Des navires romains découverts à Lyon
They've lain undiscovered for almost two millennia. Archeologists have unearthed some of the largest Roman transport ships ever to have been recovered.
Le jardin des olfacties
An archeologist of the senses recreates the perfumes from the court of Louis XV.
La reconstruction de l'Hermione
Reconstructing the famous 18th battleship in the naval port of Rochefort.
Réaumur
A pioneer of modern botany, farming and much more besides
On n'a pas de pétrole, mais on a des idées
Under fire in the Ivory Coast - is the French presence humanitarian aid or neocolonial interference?
La lutte contre la pauvreté
Chirac's plan for a world poverty tax is applauded, but are we chickening out on the real causes?
L'Union européenne à 25
A source of security or a threat to identity? France's role in the new Europe of 25 nations.
La France face à l'Irak
Opponents to the looming war in Iraq voice their arguments.
Pour un commerce mondial rééquilibré
Opponents of free-market globalization state their case.
Une écrivaine et son double - A.S. Byatt et Jean-Louis Chevalier
It's no easy job translating Booker prize winning author A. S. Byatt into French, but you certainly learn a thing or two. Byatt and translator Jean-Louis Chevalier go head to head to discuss their differences.
La défense des langues régionales
Olive trees can survive forest fires, but can regional languages survive the modern era? Militants from Provence believe so.
Le français des régions
The dialects of French explained and explored.
L'âme du slam
Rap poetry
Les Dicos d'or
Bernard Pivot on the French passion for la dictée
Le peuple de l'herbe - Cube
In the wake of critical acclaim for their third album Cube, electro rappers Le peuple de l'herbe prepare for a European tour
Chantons sous l'occupation
Singing through the occupation: how French entertainers coped with the Second World War.
Les chansons de marins
Sailors' songs revived
Monsieur cent mille volts est mort
Tributes to Gilbert Bécaud
L'aventure sur Mars
You've seen the photos, he's held Mars in his hands. Space geologist Professor Philippe Gillet on the new era of inter-planetary exploration.
Le Minitel fête ses 21 ans
21 years old and in the prime of life. How the French Minitel is surviving the Internet age
Les foulées du Gois
Don't be late or you might not get home atall. It's man against tide on the island of Noirmoutier.
Aux courses de chevaux!
Everyone claims to be a loser in the world of French horse racing... but they all love it anyway.
Le coupe du monde des jeux vidéos
The tension's palpable at the Video Games World Cup.
Le Tour de France fête ses 100 ans
It's almost 20 years since France had a winner in cycling's most presitigious contest. The director of Brioches la Boulangère offers his explanations.
L'homme contre l'ordinateur
It's man against machine as a computer takes on a draughts grand master.
Infirmières, le savoir de la nuit
The patients can't cope with the taboos, the hospitals can't cope with the finances. And it's nurses who are paying the price, says Anne Perraut Soliveres.
Télécharger ou de ne pas télécharger?
Are internet pirates killing music it... or freeing it from the clutches of big business?
L'université populaire
Lecturers offer free courses to the public in a bid to revolutionise the role of universities
Trovez votre niche!
Who wants to live in the countryside? French businesses are in search of foreign buyers.
Les droits des homosexuels
New laws to protect homosexuals from agression - but the French government baulks at allowing gay marriage.
Luttes: visages du mouvement ouvrier
Alive and kicking in the 21st century. How French Trade Unions have survived in the liberal era.
Ni putes ni soumises
Why France is right to ban Islamic headscarves from school. French feminists stick up for a controversial law.
Handica'
A car that you can look out of, a kitchen that you can cook in - consumer paradise for the handicapped.
Pas de cigarettes pour les moins de 16 ans
The government wants to ban cigarettes for the under-16s but the public's sceptical.
Penser en euros? C'est pas facile, mais on y vient!
It's been a year since the French franc was consigned to the history books, but the memory lives on.
Comment la télévision devient un outil du pouvoir
Do we all sell-out in the end?
L'insécurité
Insecurity is a big theme in French politics - but is it real or imagined?
La presse gratuite
The advent of giveaway newspapers upsets the traditional press.
Adieu au franc français
France gets ready to welcome the Euro
Les raves parties vont être contrôlées
Rave parties are set to face a government crackdown
Les vendanges
The disappearing art of grape harvesting by hand.
Les sans-papiers
Immigrants in search of work permits go on hunger strike.
Le procès de l'Ordre du Temple Solaire
A famous composer is accused of being linked to cult sect mass-suicides.
Une nouvelle politique culturelle
Daniel Cohn-Bendit on cultural politics.
Les casseurs de pub
Get those advertisements out of my head. A campaign to clean up our mental space begins.
Cannabis
Should France follow Belgium and liberalise anti-cannabis legislation?
Le Puy du Fou
Behind the scenes of an awe-inspiring show.
La mytiliculture
Mussel cultivation on the West coast.
La Rochelle
Port city and home of the huguenots.
Le facteur Cheval
A postman's heroic monument to civilisation.
Un musée pour la paix
An ambitious memorial to the Normandy landings.
Le nouvel axe du TGV
Paris to Marseilles in just three hours as France's latest high speed train link goes into action.