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Stone the crows! Or, rather, sacre bleu: the Telegraph has obtained a copy of the Olympic “technical manuals”, the IOC’s guidelines for hosting the Games, which reveal that French will be the main language.

Petty France, W1. Photo / Homemade. London’s first ever French radio station launches. Two teenagers detained for killing a suspected sex abuser. Thieves stole money from a Chelsea Pensioners’ club whilst its members were marching on Remembrance Sunday. The Standard names picks the most powerful …

Don’t forget today’s the start of the Sud de France Festival. The celebration kicks off this morning with a fantastic, one-day, southern French food and wine market in Cavendish Square from 10am to 6pm. The event is free and gives market-goers a unique chance to sample …

Hoist le Tricolore this Sunday for Battersea Park becomes a Francophile’s dream with the second free Bastille Day Garden Party, on the jolly theme of “Paris à la folie”. Go for the whole day and play giant Petanque, taste wine and cheese and shop in …

By Orhan Tsolak We’re the first to own up to a shaggy rather than sharply delineated definition of London. Windsor’s been mentioned. London Gatwick is really Sussex but we don’t mind. Ebbsfleet is pushing it, but they’re getting a big horse. However, Calais, in our …

Europe minister Chris Bryant has used Twitter, fast becoming a tool of the irked and the wronged, to launch a volley of invective against Eurostar. Ensnared for the second day in a row by trouble on the line, Bryant fumed that he is “rapidly developing …

London is the seventh largest French city, according to a certain Monsieur Carla Bruni, so it should be no surprise that there will be a few Bastille Day celebrations around town over the next few days. The big one is going to be the Bastille …

Image / chrisjohnbeckett You could hear the howls of Hoxtonites from Hounslow to Harlow when news broke that a London-bound cocaine motherlode had been stopped by police. The pure Bolivian marching powder, with a street value of £30 million, was found on a British lorry …

Petit Nicholas Sarkosy Plus ça change! In 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy came to London just before the people swept him to the French Presidency. He trumpeted the capital as “one of the great French cities”. Remember? As he turned and left our city he was the …

This rainy, windy August is really making us yearn for a touch of Gallic charm to lift our summer mood. Of course, we’re staying in London so news that the National Theatre is going francophile has got us all of a foux de fafa. If …