The weekend magazine supplement of French daily Le Monde has caused controversy after its cover published on Saturday showed a mock-up of a photo of President Emmanuel Macron and the Champs-Elysée avenue in a design perceived by some as Nazi iconography.
Georges Loinger, cousin of the famous mime artist and fellow Resistance member Marcel Marceau, who smuggled out of German-occupied France an estimated 350 Jewish children, saving them from possible deportation to death camps, has died at the age of 108.
Nationwide turnout for the seventh weekend of demonstrations in France on Saturday by so-called Yellow Vest protestors calling for improved living conditions for low- and middle-income earners was about a quarter of that the previous weekend, although militants have called for more protests on New Year's Eve.
Navigator Jean-Jacques Savin, who will turn 72 in January – and, he hopes, at sea – has set off west into the North Atlantic from the Canary Islands in a metal barrel which he expects will be carried by ocean currents alone to somewhere in the Caribbean by the end of March.
The French ambassador to Poland, Pierre Levy, has said he was 'shocked' at comments made by Polish foreign minister Jacek Czaputowicz in which he said recent social unrest in France and the slowdown of President Emmanuel Macron's timetable of reforms had made the country 'the sick man of Europe, dragging Europe down'.
In a deal to be completed in early 2019, French concessions and construction giant Vinci has announced it will take a stake of 50.1 percent in the capital of London's Gatwick Airport, Britain's second-busiest hub for passenger traffic, adding to 46 other airports it already operates in Europe.
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