Beer drinkers have launched an online name-and-shame campaign to combat a trend in bars of serving less than the 500ml that equates in France to a "pinte" by using thick glasses that hide the fact that they contain a quarter less.
French actor Gérard Depardieu appeared in a Paris court on Monday afternoon at the start of his three-day trial on charges of sexually assaulting two women during filming in 2021 of the feature film Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters), which he denies.
Rabbi Arié Engelberg was verbally insulted, punched and bitten by a 16-year-old boy on Saturday afternoon as he and his young son left a synagogue in the north-central French town of Orléans.
A pile up involving three police vehicles and a car they were chasing through Paris streets early on Saturday morning was caught on CCTV in scenes that resembled a Hollywood blockbuster, when ten police officers and three people from the fleeing car were slightly injured.
The power and influence of the owner of the Hachette publishing group, Vincent Bolloré, whose TV, radio and print media are used to propagate conservative and hard-right views, has prompted the ire of some independent booksellers in France who have taken to placing Hachette books on low shelves and limiting orders for them.
Five former members of the so-called Islamic State group were found guilty, two of them in absentia, of their various roles in the kidnapping, detention and torture of four French journalists in Syria 12 years ago, and were handed sentences of between 20 years in jail and life imprisonment.
The 153-year-old restaurant Georges Blanc, located in Vonas, close to the city of Lyon, which was first awarded a Michelin star in 1929 and gradually rising to the full three stars in 1981, has lost one, the restaurant guide book created by the eponymous tyre manufacturer has announced.
The French education ministry's decision to cancel a mass order for 800,000 copies of a comic book that gives a modern take on the story of the Beauty and the Beast, destined for distribution among children but which the ministry judged to be too grown-up for pre-teens, led the book's author, Julien Berjeaut, aka Jul, to complain it was 'as if Trump and his team were in charge'.
Drawings by the 19th-century French author, poet, playwright and essayist Victor Hugo, lesser known than his writings and described by his contemporary Vincent van Gogh as being 'astonishing things', are on display at London's Royal Academy until June 29th.
A spokeswoman for the US Department of Homeland Security has said a French scientist was refused entry into the country earlier this month because of classified information from Los Alamos National Laboratory on his electronic device, and not because of messaging exchanges critical of Donald Trump's policies found on his phone, as claimed by France's minister for higher education.
Prosecutors in north-west France have begun searching for further victims of Joël Le Scouarnec, a retired surgeon on trial for sexually abusing 299 mostly child victims, the majority when they were his patients, after the 74-year-old admitted to perpetrating a larger number of crimes.
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