Like every year, Paris makes almost all of its parking area free from 1 to 31 August.

On the night of Monday to Tuesday, Ile-de-France will switch to digital television and join the thirteen regions and 46% of French households who have already dropped analog broadcasting. The transition to all digital TV - which will also be sufficient to release spectrum for new channels and increase access to mobile internet - a concern once a pool of nearly 12 million.

New key location for Parisian culture, the Gaiety lyrical opens March 2. Meanwhile, learn more about the place, the events of the opening week and its future programming.

The inauguration of the Gaite Lyrique will be held from 2 to 6 March 2011.

France's Louvre museum is making an unprecedented appeal to the general public to help it raise the cash to buy a 16th century painting deemed a national treasure by art experts.