Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. Gone also is the French woman with red lips and a striped shirt holding a long cigarette in one hand and a baguette in the other. It happens, really. If you and Philippe have been hanging out consistently for a few weeks and it leads to a stolen kiss in a bar one evening, do not be surprised if he calls you his girlfriend the next day. Because as soon as a Frenchman plants a kiss on your lips, the two of you are a couple.

The beautiful thing about French dating culture is (unlike nearly everything else in France) there are no rules. In fact, there aren’t even “dates”, per se. Generally.

By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline. France ‘s interior minister has vowed to deport the family of a Bosnian Muslim girl who was allegedly beaten and had her head shaved for dating a Christian. Gerald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, has vowed to deport the girl’s relatives because ‘they have no reason to be on our soil’. The case began several months ago when the girl, who came to France from Bosnia and Herzegovina with her family in , began dating the Christian boy in secret.

Fearing reprisals from her family, the girl fled to go and live with the year-old boy on August 13, Le Parisien reports. Four days later, she agreed to go back to her family home alongside the boy and his parents to try and reconcile. But, she told police, her family instead attacked her – with her relatives kicking and punching her in the head and body. The girl claims her father then took a pair of shears and asked her uncle to cut off her long hair. Her boyfriend ran out of the house and called police, who arrived on the scene a short time later.

The girl’s family are accused of trying to hide her from officers, who eventually found her and arrested the father, uncle, mother and aunt. The four have now been charged with violence against a minor, while the girl has been placed in protective custody.