Construction of the remarkable Canal Du Midi took a staggering 14 years to complete, and required around 12,000 workers. Now, ...

A seven-year-old girl has drowned after a boat capsized on the Aa canal in Watten, northern France, local authorities said. The small boat was carrying 16 migrants including the seven-year-old ...

The French coastguard has rescued 68 migrants from a small boat off the Calais coast which was suffering engine failure, as ...

When the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique failed in December,1888, thousands of French investors lost ... side to the level of the lake. The boats would cross the lake, then descend ...

Etienne Dachicourt, the co-owner of the French trawler, said the Rose de Cascia first passed over the fishing gear of the English vessel as both boats fished in British waters late at night.