French actor Gérard Depardieu has been handed an 18-month jail sentence after a Paris court found him guilty of groping two women during the shooting of a film in 2021, after which his lawyer announced he would appeal the verdict.
Mezzo-soprano Célestine Galli-Marié was the first to perform the lead role in Georges Bizet's operatic masterpiece Carmen in 1875, and her influence in bestowing the character with headstrong and sensual qualities which remain to this day is finally recognised with the publication this year of an autobiography of the star and an album of her greatest hits.
French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Nancy, eastern France, on Friday where the two men signed a treaty in which each country is committed to militarily helping the other in case of an attack on either.
Former French prime minister Gabriel Attal is among a group of parliamentarians who have prepared draft legislation to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 amid a virulent anti-Semitic campaign, and finally rehabilitated after serving several years of a sentence to life in a penal colony, to the rank of brigadier general.
In his first visit to Europe since becoming Syria's president in January, Ahmed al-Shara, who overthrew dictator Bashar al-Assad last December, held talks in Paris on Wednesday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron when he confided that his country was holding indirect talks with Israel to 'calm down' the military confrontation between the two.
According to the prosecution, the bear, which the hunter said attacked him after he unwittingly came close to her cubs, was killed 400 metres outside an authorised hunting area.
Gérald Darmanin admitted that security arrangements for the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid were wrong, and that his first public remarks – blaming English fans – were a mistake.
Alan Carter said that the investigation into the stabbing of his wife Karen ‘confirmed a relationship I did not want to believe’ and which she had denied.
In a newspaper interview François Bayrou said he did not rule out a national referendum on a comprehensive plan to reduce France’s debt and bring the public deficit below 3 percent of GDP.
Attackers in April struck at several jails and other facilities across France, torching cars, spraying the entrance of one prison with automatic gunfire and leaving mysterious inscriptions.
Karen Carter, 65, a ‘well-liked member of the local community’, was stabbed to death outside her home in Trémolat, southwest France, on Tuesday.
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