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Leclerc or Lidl: Which is the cheapest supermarket in France?

The answer is not straightforward with a variation of prices up and down the country being one factor

All aboard! Thousands of cut-price French rail tickets put on sale

Up to 200,000 tickets, priced at €19, are being made available for travel in July and August

How I bought our new family home in France for €1

The town council of Saint-Amand-Montrond hope to bring life back into the town centre by repurposing empty buildings

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French supermarkets to sell spectacles

Ahead of health reforms that should see the price of spectacles fall from January 2020, four major French supermarket chains are planning to enter the market

From December, travel on Ouigo TGV from Montparnasse

Ouigo, the low-cost TGV service from SNCF, is to begin offering tickets to Bordeaux, Nantes and Rennes from the central station Paris Montparnasse, with bookings for December onwards open from Tuesday (October 3).