British cycling champion Chris Froome, 34, who was due to attempt a record-breaking fifth win in the Tour de France to be held in July, has been ruled out of the race after crashing into a wall at around 60 kph during a practice run in the Critérium du Dauphiné road race in central France, fracturing sevreal bones.
In what might be perceived by some as a reflection of increasing tensions between US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, a young oak tree presented as a gift by the French president during an official visit to the US last year, and which was symbolically planted in the White House gardens by the two leaders before being placed in obligatory quarantine, has died.
A 98-year-old US WW2 veteran, who returned to France for this month's commemorations of the D-Day landings, was reunited, thanks to the diligent research of two French journalists, with the French woman he had fallen in love with in 1944, now aged 92, but had never again seen after he was sent on to continue combat further east, a long-lost encounter that visibly proved of mutual joy.
French carmaker Renault, partly state-owned, could reduce its stake in its Japanese counterpart Nissan in an effort to save the strained commercial alliance between the two marques, said France's economy and finance minister Bruno Le Maire, adding that French plans for a merger between the two, resisted by Nissan, could be abandoned.
An estimated 15,000 people turned out to take part on Monday in a tribute to three crew members of a French lifeboat, all volunteer rescuers, who died at the weekend after their boat overturned in heavy seas as they attempted to rescue a fisherman off the Atlantic coastal port of Sables-d’Olonne in ferocious storm conditions.
A group of 12 children of deceased French jihadists was flown home on Monday from north-east Syria where they were held by Kurdish forces, the latest step in efforts to resolve the problem posed by the huge numbers of foreign jihadists and their families stranded in Syrian camps after the military defeat of the so-called Islamic State group.
Fiat-Chrysler pulled out of the talks, saying the 'political conditions' in France did not currently exist for such a merger to proceed successfully.
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