\n From Paris’s largest annual music festival to heavy weekend traffic on French roads and the Women’s Rugby World Cup, here’s what is happening in France this week.\n <\/p>\n
Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n Heavy traffic<\/strong> – After the Assumption weekend, motorists should anticipate heavier-than-usual traffic on Monday. Specifically, those returning from south-eastern France and the Riviera to northern France and the Paris region should be prepared for the A8 and A9 to be congested. Those returning from the south-west should expect traffic on the A61.<\/p>\n Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n School aid<\/strong> – Eligible households in mainland France will receive the means-tested school aid (L\u2019allocation de rentr\u00e9e scolaire<\/a>) on Tuesday, August 19th. It helps to cover the cost of the numerous items that they need to purchase before children head to school. The aid was sent out to households in France’s overseas d\u00e9partements earlier in the month.<\/p>\n Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n New films <\/strong>– French cinemas tend to release new films on Wednesdays. This week, they will release several films, including the French film ‘Alpha’ by Julia Ducournau about a rebellious 13-year-old and the film ‘Sentimental value’ (Valeur sentimentale) by Joachim Trier, which premiered at Cannes.<\/p>\n Rock en Seine music festival<\/strong> – Paris’s biggest annual festival begins on Wednesday, August 20th and runs until Sunday, August 24th. This year, big names like Chappell Roan, A$AP Rocky and Doechii will perform at the Parc de Saint Cloud.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a015 things to do in Paris this summer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n Festival in S\u00e8te<\/strong> – Near Montpellier, in the H\u00e9rault d\u00e9partement, the seaside town of S\u00e8te hosts a yearly festival called the F\u00eates de la Saint-Louis. It\u2019s been going on since the port was inaugurated in 1666, and it involves water jousting, swimming, entertainment, and shows. It will run from Thursday, August 21st, until Tuesday, August 26th.<\/p>\n Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n Heavy traffic weekend <\/strong>– As the penultimate weekend of the summer holidays, many motorists will begin returning home this weekend. Heavy traffic is expected for returns across the country on Friday, but traffic is set to be very slow on Saturday. French traffic watchdog Bison Fut\u00e9<\/a> placed most of France on ‘red’ for very difficult travel conditions, with the south-east on ‘black’ for extremely difficult travel conditions. Conditions ought to improve on Sunday.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n Women’s Rugby World Cup<\/strong> – The French women\u2019s rugby squad are on the other side of the Channel for the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup 2025. Their first match is against Italy on Saturday, August 23rd at Sandy Park stadium in Exeter at 8.15pm local time (9.15pm French time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Paris’s largest annual music festival to heavy weekend traffic on French roads and the Women’s Rugby World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-351065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115042784672509524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}