The number of visitors to an exhibition in Paris, 'Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh', in which some of the 3,400 exhibits relating to the monarch of ancient Egypt had never before left Cairo, has set an all-time record for any temporary exhibition in France at more than 1.4 million.
A bottle of Vin Jaune from the Arbois region of eastern France dating from the harvest of 1774, when the last French monarch King Louis XVI was still the country's ruler, has sold for a record 103,700 euros at an auction in the French Jura region, while two other bottles of the same vintage sold for 76,250 euros and 73,200 euros.
The 34-year-old arrived back in north-west France in the early hours of Sunday after completing his 27,860-nautical-mile tour of the globe in a trimaran in 42 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes and 35 seconds, beating the previous record by six days and recording an average speed of 27.2 knots.
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