Amid calls by several particpants for France's locked-down cinemas and theatres to reopen, French actress Corinne Masiero stripped naked on stage at France's yearly César film awards ceremony with a message of protest for French PM Jean Casteix on her bared back which read 'Give us back art, Jean', phonetically also meaning 'Give us our money back'.
A longterm health study of more than 200,000 people in France has found the presence of antibodies to the coronavirus behind Covid-19 in blood samples dating from early November 2019.
French artist Xavier Marabout is being sued for copyright infringement by the company representing the heirs of late Belgian cartoonist Hergé, creator of The Adventures of Tintin series, over his canvases which feature Tintin in 'an erotic universe' that pastiches the work of US artist Edward Hopper.
A boy and girl, both aged 15, are being held in custody after admitting to the murder of a 14-year-old girl from the same school whose badly beaten body was found thrown into the River Seine in a Paris suburb after she had drowned.
France will from Friday no longer require people travelling to or from Australia, Britain, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea to justify 'compelling' reasons for their journey, although other restrictions will remain in place, such as the requirement to show a negative Covid-19 test taken less than 72 hours before travel.
A 13-year-old schoolgirl whose Muslim father led a hate campaign against secondary school teacher Samuel Paty for showing a class on free speech cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and who was attacked and decapitated in the street, has admitted lying to her father about the details of the class in which she was in fact not present.
In a charity-run scheme, language students from around the world who are unable to study in France because of the coronavirus pandemic link up via the internet to have video chats with elderly French people who, because of the virus threat, are confined to their homes in lonely conditions.
In his tribute, President Emanuel Macron said Dassault, 69, son of the late industrialist Serge Dassault, loved France and his death would be "a great loss".
