Riad Sattouf, 46, born to a French mother and Syrian father, has sold more than three million copies of his autobiographic series 'The Arab of the Future' which draws from his childhood and raises thorny questions about the compatibility of the Western and Arab worlds.
Laurence des Cars, the first woman director of the Louvre, the museum with the highest annual number of visitors worldwide, has warned the French government that its decaying state, which is endangering its abundant artworks, requires a decision to launch costly repairs.
French father-of-four Serge Atlaoui, 61, who was arrested in Indonesia in 2005 for working as a welder at a drugs factory near the capital Jakarta, which he said he thought was an acrylics plant, and who has been on death rown since 2007, is expected to be sent back to France early next month.
Maxime Chapoutier's family have been Rhône Valley winemakers for more than 200 years, and he is now taking advantage of Brexit to circumnavigate EU rules to blend Australian and French wines in the UK, but the audacious mixing of grapes from the two hemispheres is not to everyone's taste.
David Balland, a co-founder of Ledger, which sells physical devices for storing crypto assets, and his partner were freed after their kidnapping on Tuesday in central France.
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