The trial of in Paris of Gérard Depardieu on charges of sexually assaulting two women on the set of a film in 2021 opened briefly on Monday but was soon postponed until next March after the absent actor's lawyers produced medical certificates attesting to his poor health.
A man reported to be of Indian origin died in the early hours of Sunday morning from cardiac arrest after a dinghy he was in with around 50 other migrants deflated shortly after beginning an attempt to cross the Channel from France to England.
The French actor, 75, will stand trial in Paris on Monday charged with physically abusing two women during filming of Les Volet Verts in 2021, and is accused by a total of 21 women of sexual assault, including rape, prompting six investigations.
A typed text of The Little Prince, one of the most translated books worldwide, containing handwritten notes and doodles by its author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances while flying over the Mediterranean for the Free French forces in 1944, will be sold at the at the Abu Dhabi Art Festival in November for 1.25 million dollars.
During the seventh week of an unprecedented mass rape trial in the southern French town of Avignon, more of the 51 defendants, accused of separately raping Gisèle Pelicot over a nine-year period as she lay unconcious from drugs secretly administered by her husband, took to the stand and denied knowingly raping her.
An international conference hosted by France to raise funding for humanitarian missions and military aid for Lebanon, increasingly ravaged by the war between Israel and Hezbollah, has attracted a total of 1 billion dollars in pledges, announced French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot.
As consumers increasingly turn their backs on the tannin-rich wines of Bordeaux, winegrowers in the region are ripping out their vines and turning to the planting of other crops and even laying solar panels for electricity production.
Gisèle Pelicot, 71, who was subjected to rape by dozens of strangers over many years when her husband sedated her into a comatose state and recruited men online to sexually abuse her, on Wednesday took to the stand at the trial in southern France when she told the court women who have been raped must know that 'it's not for us to have shame'.
French President Emmanuel Macron is to make a state visit to Morocco beginning on October 28th, in a move to mend high tensions between Paris and Rabat over recent years with what Moroccan King Mohammed VI called 'a renewed and ambitious vision covering several strategic sectors'.
French scientists are studying the contents of a 144-year-old bottle of Vin Tonique Mariani, an apéritif invented by a Corsican pharmacist, which was a forebear of Coca-Cola and which is now under revival, to establish whether its ingredients really meet past claims of its ability to cure nervous conditions and impotency.
