Complaints aside, the French Senate deemed loud roosters, pungent horse manure, and the like official parts of the country's rural "sensory heritage." The move is a major victory for the rural ...

As France prepares to cut speed limits on main countryside roads, a new report has shed some light on which parts of the country have the most dangerous network of secondary roads based on mortality ...

France has passed a law protecting the “sensory heritage” of its rural areas, in the face of complaints about the noises and smells typical of the countryside. Senators voted to approve the law, which ...

All of France is charming, but its countryside is in a league of its own. Both admired and envied all over the world, it has inspired design styles, architectural styles and the works of numerous ...

France has passed a law to protect the sounds and smells of the countryside as part of French heritage. This comes after many people moved from cities to rural parts of the nation, and many of them ...

FRANCE NOW:THE SETTING – a lazy village cafe in the south of France on a sunny midweek morning – makes it all the more incongruous to listen to Cathy Guillermet describe her high-octane Paris ...

France has passed a law protecting the “sensory heritage” of its rural areas, in the face of complaints about the noises and smells typical of the countryside. Senators voted to approve the law, which ...