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Tour de France: The French terms you need to know

To coincide with the 100th edition of the Tour de France, the BBC Magazine has a nicely-researched feature on the key cycling vocabulary that every self-respecting connoisseur of the sport should know...

READ MORE | 18 Jul 2013
French cyclist breaks age group record for The Hour - three months after his 100th birthday

Here's a story to put a pep in your step at the end of a long week: A 100-year-old cyclist from France has set a new age group world record for The Hour an incredible 86 years after his first competit...

READ MORE | 17 Feb 2012
The Thrills and Spills of the Tour de France

The Tour de France, the greatest cycling race of them all, gets properly underway today with live coverage from Sky and ITV in the UK and Versus in the U.S. For sports buffs and French language learne...

READ MORE | 3 Jul 2010
French Café Life Under Threat

Just as the British pub is feeling the effects of the recession so too, it would appear, is the French café according to a report on the BBC. And it looks like the recession may be no respecter...

READ MORE | 17 Mar 2010
Best Gypsy Jazz bars in Paris

Great piece in The Guardian on the best clubs and bars in Paris to hear live Gypsy Jazz--or Jazz Manouche in French--as played and popularised by the legendary Django Rhinehardt. The nice thing about...

READ MORE | 4 Mar 2010