'The Mature Age', a bronze sculpture by French artist Camille Claudel, who led a troubled love affair with Auguste Rodin, was discovered under a sheet in an empty Paris apartment and has now fetched 3.1 million euros at an auction in Orléans.
The summit in Paris on Ukraine's future, to be held on Monday afternoon, just as the US and Russia begin exclusive bilateral talks over a ceasfire in Ukraine, will bring together the leaders of Britain, Germany, Poland, Denmark and Italy, as well as Nato's secretary general and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
French customs officers stopped an Italy-bound courier van in southern France for a routine check when they discovered two parcels containing nine dinosaur teeth probably dating back tens of millions of years and originating from what is now Morocco.
Several female cabin crew employed by Air France have told an investigation by public broadcaster Radio France of systemic sexual harassment by male colleagues, including pilots, and alleged that the airline 'protects the abusers, not the hostesses'.
During a phone conversation on Friday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky told his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, that Europe 'must be represented at the negotiating table' in any eventual talks for ending the war with Russia.
A French radio station put a volunteer panel of native French speakers through the same test of French-language skills applied to foreigners seeking French nationality or longterm residency, and found that half of the volunteers failed the written exam.
A grenade attack on a bar in Grenoble, south-east France, which left 12 people wounded, two of them critically, is not being treated as a terrorist attack, a local prosecutor said, but as a possible 'settling of scores'.
The rise in a so-called 'solidarity tax' beginning in March will see economy class short-haul flights departing from France for destinations within Europe increase from 2.63 euros to 7.40 euros, while tax on medium-haul routes will rise to 15 euros, and on long distance flights it will climb to 40 euros.
Around 55 percent of the 54 square kilometres of Amsterdam Island, situated in the southern Indian Ocean and mostly inhabited by scientific researchers, has been destroyed by a wildfire that began in January.
Around 55 percent of the 54 square kilometres of Amsterdam Island, situated in the southern Indian Ocean and mostly inhabited by scientific researchers, has been destroyed by a wildfire that began in January.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou faced more questions in parliament on Wednesday over Mediapart’s revelations that he failed to intervene in a scandal of violence and sexual assaults against pupils of a Catholic secondary school in his political fiefdom in south-west France, despite being made aware of the events. He told parliament that he was “never” informed of the attacks. Mediapart can reveal documents and first-hand accounts that indicate the contrary. David Perrotin and Antton Rouget report.
Britain and the US have declined to sign up to a declaration of intent at an international summit on the global development of artificial intelligence, hosted by Emmanuel Macron in Paris, and which underlined the need to ensure that 'AI is open, inclusive, transparent [and] ethical'.
Following the discovery six days ago of the bodies of a British couple at their home in south-west France, prosecutors on Tuesday confirmed that Dawn Searle, 56, died from several blows to the head with a 'blunt and sharp object', while her husband Andrew Searle, 65, died from hanging.
By attacking the rule of law, the newly-installed United States president is weakening democratic checks and balances and undermining resistance. His blizzard of executive orders echoes the US military's 'shock and awe' tactics of the Iraq War and has left opponents reeling. In order to oppose this catastrophic state of affairs, argues Mediapart's publishing editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article, we urgently need to put an end to factional infighting, form a united front and confront it head on.
