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Do you hear the people sing? That’ll be La Marseillaise.

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 …