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Long-term campers win right to stay
07/02/2012 - On-the-spot France

Long-term campers win right to stay

Around 70,000 people in France live on camp-sites all year round, either through choice or necessity.

Putting the French back into Entrepreneur
02/02/2012 - On-the-spot France

Putting the French back into Entrepreneur

France invented the word entrepreneur but has struggled to embrace it.

3.5 million French people badly housed
01/02/2012 - On-the-spot France

3.5 million French people badly housed

A report out today says more than 3.5 million French people are homeless or live in unfit housing. And more than eight million are affected by the housing crisis in general.

The Cirque de Demain in Paris
29/01/2012 - Culture in France

The Cirque de Demain in Paris

The Cirque de Demain, the biggest international circus festival in the world, is on in Paris this weekend.

France's bilingual playgroups
25/01/2012 - On-the-spot France

France's bilingual playgroups

Around one in four of France's children is growing up in a bilingual or multilingual environment. While linguists agree that this has numerous benefits, not all languages are equally valued.

Quai Branly lifts the lid on human zoos
21/01/2012 - Culture in France

Quai Branly lifts the lid on human zoos

Long before TV, cinema and playstations gave us all home entertainment, people flocked in their millions to colonial fairs, cabarets and freak shows to marvel over exotic peoples such as pygmies, ...

French Senate disapproves of new rules on foreign graduate jobseekers
20/01/2012 - On-the-spot France

French Senate disapproves of new rules on foreign graduate jobseekers

The French government recently announced it would modify rules on work visas for foreign graduates after uproar over a controversial memo in May which meant hundreds of highly-qualified non-EU ...

Don't call me Mademoiselle
13/01/2012 - On-the-spot France

Don't call me Mademoiselle

A town in the north-west of France has just banished the use of the title 'mademoiselle' or 'miss' from all its official forms and documents.

Oldest French sci-fi movie brought back to life
08/01/2012 - Culture in France

Oldest French sci-fi movie brought back to life

One of cinema’s founding fathers, the Frenchman Georges Méliès, made the first ever sci-fi adventure A Trip to the Moon in 1902!

Baba Yagas, a place for women
06/01/2012 - On-the-spot France

Baba Yagas, a place for women

French women have the world's second longest life expectancy after Japan, with an average age of 84 and a half years.

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