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"It's an Opinel 13," explained ... city of Paris and the three departments that constitute its ring of inner suburbs – described it, the city authorities were launching this "knife" plan to ...

French protesting farmers reportedly vowed a "siege of the capital" of Paris on Monday afternoon ... If farmers refused to sell as part of the plan to reach ambitious climate targets, the Dutch ...

Plans to cover up to half of Paris with an “urban forest” took a step forward this week, when the city began the planting of a 478-tree micro-woodland in a busy square. The Place de Catalogne ...

But they are almost always taken down afterward, as was always the plan in Paris. However, Hidalgo announced in the French media Aug. 31 that the rings would stay on the Eiffel Tower, until at ...

Efficiently making your way around a national capital during the Olympics could be an Olympic sport in its own right. Uber’s plan to avoid losing that game in Paris starts with a feature that ...

The Paris City Council on Wednesday adopted its highly anticipated local urban development plan (Plan local d’urbanisme, or PLU) after four years of intensive discussions and more than 50,000 ...