Public holidays are referred to as national holidays in France and are also called fêtes or jours fériés. They are very important to the French as they firmly believe in a good life-work balance and ...

Creamy brie smeared on a crusty baguette, crisp local wines sipped in a sun-dappled square and Alpine wildflower meadows to roam – our love affair with French holidays shows no signs of fading. A ...

President Emmanuel Macron said that he wants to review the amount of time French pupils get off for the summer, claiming that ...

After raising the pension age and cutting taxes on the rich, now Emmanuel Macron’s government wants to scrap the Easter Monday and VE Day bank holidays. The plan is sure to face stiff resistance, with ...

July 16 (Reuters) - (This July 16 story has been corrected to fix the graphic and attribution for the number of nationwide holidays in France, in paragraph 10) French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on ...