Paris has a new road: Rue David Bowie. The French capital this week became the first city in the world to name a street after the late music icon – but why here? rfi.my/AFhV.X via RFI English Jessica Phelan

There's no popcorn but the magic still operates at the #Cinémobile – a cinema on wheels that tours towns across the Loire Valley, delivering thousands of showings to rural communities each year. Jessica Phelan reports. Région Centre-Val de Loire @Ciclic_CVL buff.ly/4c2p2Yr

📢 Great opportunity for journalists reporting about development issues with a solutions journalism focus: Solutions Journalism Network and European Journalism Centre are offering up to €8,500 for up to 12 projects to be published later this year in France, Germany or the UK. Details: ejc.net/funding/soluti…

Be not afraid! The #French language is robust enough to handle change. By Jessica Phelan Tract Linguistes 🐘🦋 #francophonie24 rfi.my/ARkI.X via RFI English

Really interesting to compare France's bill to the Crown Act in the United States: the US legislation specifically protects Black hair, while in theory the French version applies to *all* hair because of France's insistence that public policy should be – ahem – "colour-blind".

🇫🇷🇬🇧The #ChannelTunnel linking France to Britain was opened 30 years ago today. But as Jessica Phelan reports, it had been in the pipeline for 200 years. Read all about it. Nice pics too👇rfi.my/AZs3.X via RFI English