Six weeks' of recordings of around 7,000 hours of the entire Gregorian repertoire recorded by US musician John Anderson in the abbey church of Notre-Dame de Fidélité de Jouques, near the town of Aix-en-Provence in southern France, have been released online for Easter celebrations after lockdown measures prevented worshippers from physically attending celebrations this weekend.
French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced on Wednesday that a controversial plan to build a major new airport near Nantes in north-west France, a project first mooted 50 years ago and which was bitterly opposed by environmentalists who prevented construction work from commencing by occupying the rural site, has been definitively abandoned. The decision ends decades of fudging by successive governments, infuriating supporters of the 600-million-euro project at Notre-Dame-des-Landes who argued it would have provided a much needed boost to the region’s economy.
Airbus military aircraft division boss Fernando Alonso said he 'really' hopes that France will join development of a German-Spanish project to build a new fighter aircraft, while adding that Britain's withdrawal from the EU made it 'difficult' to envisage its involvement in the programme.
