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Cyclists who made huge GPS dinosaur on France trip break world record

The group’s remarkable 1,025km route took them through the central departments of Cher, Saône-et-Loire, Indre, Nièvre, Creuse and Puy-de-Dôme

Drawing will help you get to the essence of a French building

Nick Inman charts the ups and downs of renovating an old French farmhouse

‘I drew in five minutes the absolute pain of a lifetime’

Retired courtroom artist shares her many years of experience covering France’s most memorable and harrowing trials

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Sempé was a master illustrator but also a sociologist, say cartoonists

‘He had all of what is needed; composition, graphism, colour, expressions and a great sense of what a good caption is’

An image tribute to France’s Petit Nicolas illustrator Sempé

Jean-Jacques Sempé passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Former Le Monde cartoonist Plantu shares his reaction with us in visual form

War artist gave new view of France's trench life

Phyllida Shaw is a researcher and a writer who has published an extraordinarily beautiful and sensitive book about life in the trenches during World War One based on the sketches of artist Morris Meredith Williams – who served as an officer in France from June 1916 to the end of the war – and letters home to his wife, Alice, who was also an artist.

Runner draws GPS hunchback to honour Notre-Dame

If you liked our recent article about a runner’s GPS drawing of a weasel, here is a new one from the same runner yesterday in Paris – this time in honour of Notre-Dame.