The Local France https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed France goes wild as Renée, 78, attends first all-night rave A 78-year-old woman named Renée has turned heads in France after writing a report on her first all-night rave party. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160415/france-goes-wild-for-78-year-old-rave-reporter Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:21:09 +0200 france-goes-wild-for-78-year-old-rave-reporter Woman's body found at home 6 years after death A French woman lay dead in her apartment for six years before a water leak led firefighters to stumble upon her skeleton this week. The macabre discovery comes on the heels of a report revealing the alarming number of elderly French people living in isolation. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140710/french-womans-body-lay-undiscovered-for-8-years Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:31:00 +0200 french-womans-body-lay-undiscovered-for-8-years French crook swindles pensioners from prison Being locked up in a prison cell proved to be only a minor inconvenience for one French crook, who somehow managed to continue his life of crime despite being behind bars. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140206/crook-scams-old-ladies-from-prison-cell Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:20:00 +0100 crook-scams-old-ladies-from-prison-cell French granny 'thrown in river after cigarette row' When a 67-year-old French grandma was approached by two men asking her for a cigarette on a cold night in Toulouse, she declined. But instead of accepting her knock back, the pair of thugs picked her up and threw her into the freezing waters of the Garonne river, reports say. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131122/french-granny-thrown-in-river-after-cigarette-refusal Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:50:00 +0100 french-granny-thrown-in-river-after-cigarette-refusal Brit's 'quiet pint' ends 800km away in Paris When Luke Harding from Manchester went for a quiet pint with his mate, he only intended to go for "one drink", but he somehow woke up 800 km away in a toilet in Paris, after an epic night out that has taken the web by storm. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131120/englishman-wakes-up-in-paris-after-night-out-in-oldham Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:00:00 +0100 englishman-wakes-up-in-paris-after-night-out-in-oldham 'Sleeping' man had been dead for two weeks A man in his eighties who had been laying dead in his bed for up to two weeks was presumed to be sleeping by his wife and son. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121018/two-week-dead-man-found-in-bed-presumed-sleeping Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:08:00 +0200 two-week-dead-man-found-in-bed-presumed-sleeping