First day of school jitters are now behind most of France's 11.6 million pupils, but this "rentrée", or back-to-school period, is being marked by a number of challenges and changes: phone bans, concerns…

Douze millions d'élèves et 850 000 professeurs font leur retour en classe, mardi 1er septembre.

Millions of pupils are returning to classrooms across France on Tuesday for the start of the new school year, with some schools forced to fall back on paper timetables and…