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Centre Pompidou renovation: get to know this 'inside out' Paris site
Centre Pompidou is one of France’s most recognisable public buildings, but it will be temporarily closed to the public from September
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Forest fires in France begin amid heatwave: 400 hectares burned due to BBQ on trailer
Official daily ‘forest-fire risk’ map is being published again for summer
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French weekly weather forecast June 30 - July 4: heatwave to continue then storms
84 departments are on heightened alert for the start of the week
Obstacle course is D-day reminder

Visitors to a D-Day museum in Normandy can get a taste of the training soldiers did prior to the 1944 invasion with an obstacle course.
Normandy Victory Museum in Catz, Manche, says its course gets young people interested “in a way that seeing dummy soldiers does not”.