Deteriorating state of public finances has put Paris into EU disciplinary proceedings and left incoming prime minister Michel Barnier facing tough decisions.
As was the casqe with the Olympic Games, the French capital was a stunning backdrop to the Paralympic games which ended on Sunday, but even more impressive were the achievments of the disabled athletes, including dozens of broken records, presented in this photo-reportage from BBC News.
Newly appointed French Prime Minister Michel Barnier voted, when he was a Member of Parliament in 1981, against proposed legislation to decriminalize sexual activity between homosexuals, which had been illegal since laws introduced by the WWII Vichy regime and which researchers estimate were used to convict around 10,000 people.
The trial of Dominique Pélicot, 71, who has admitted drugging his wife Gisèle and inviting more than 80 men to separately rape her while he filmed the scenes, has been given mixed coverage by the French media, which one foreign correspondent has found disturbing.
Nationwide protests against Emmanuel Macron's refusal to appoint a prime minister from the leftwing coalition that won most seats in parliamentary elections two months ago, and his choice of rightwinger Michel Barnier instead, drew a total turnout of 110,000 according to the interior ministry, while organisers claimed 300,000 took part.
France's new prime minister Michel Barnier, who is also its oldest ever at the age of 73, began a political career in the 1970s as then the youngest Member of Parliament, and has never ceased chasing high office, from a bid to become president of the European Commission to another to become president of France.
An abbot who was for decades revered for his humanitarian work for the destitute, the late Abbé Pierre is the subject of further allegations of sexual abuse in a report released on Friday, and which include preying on vulnerable women for 'repeated penetrative sex acts' and 'kissing by force', and 'sexual contact with a child'.
Telegram boss Pavel Durov, who was arrested on his arrival at Le Bourget airport near Paris on August 24th and who has since been bailed and placed under investigation for allegedly allowing criminal activity on the messaging app, has used it to post a long commentary on what he called France's 'misguided' action against him.
The French capital's mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has announced that a sports site is to be named after Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who took part in the Olympic Games in Paris and who died this week after she was set on fire allegedly by her former partner.
France's newly appointed prime minister Michel Barnier has pledged to make security, education and reducing immigration the priorities of his government, yet to be announced, and to tell 'the truth about debt, and the truth about environmental debt, which weighs heavy on the shoulders of our children'.
Michel Barnier, 73, a former conservative minister who became the European Union's chief negotiator with the UK over Brexit, was on Thursday appointed as France's new prime minister after two months of political crisis following snap parliamentary elections and a resulting hung parliament.
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