French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud, who this year won France's prestigious Goncourt literary prize for his novel Houris, set during the 1992-2002 Algerian civil war, is being sued by a woman former patient of his psychiatrist wife for allegedly using her intimate story, including the cutting of her throat by Islamists, for that of his heroine.
Protests included gatherings at local government offices and traffic circles, while a group used tractors to block a highway south of Paris in the lead-up to this week's events.
At the trial in Avignon, southern France, of Dominique Pelicot, 71, accused of drugging his wife and inviting dozens of men to join in raping her while she was sedated, his children summoned him to reveal whether or not he also raped his daughter and to explain his use of hidden cameras to photograph his daughters-in-law when they were naked.
Charles Dumont, the French songwriter and composer who worked with Jacques Brel, Barbara Streisand and Edith Piaf, notably writing her iconic song Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, has died in Paris following a period of ill health.
Interior minister Bruno Retailleau issued a stern warning to farmers over any lasting blockades of roads in anticipation of a week of demonstrations and disruption.
Priority for France was to "equip, support and help Ukraine to resist", Macron told reporters as he prepared to leave Argentina to attend the G20 Summit in Brazil.
