On Monday France entered the sixth day of a searing heatwave, with no end in sight - here's the latest on heat-related disruption.
On Monday 49 départements are on red alert - the highest alert level, indicating a danger to life - for extreme temperatures, the first time this has happened since the alert system was introduced in 2004.
Monday is predicted to be the hottest day of the heatwave so far, with temperatures of 40C in large swathes of France and up to 43C in the south west.
However Météo France predicts that temperatures will climb still further before the heatwave ends.
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