Two opinion polls on voting intentions published on Sunday gave maverick centrist presidential election candidate Emmanuel Macron a comfortable second-round win over the far-right's Marine Le Pen, suggesting the former economy minister has been boosted by his recent alliance with centre-right veteran François Bayrou.
Henry Rousso, 62, a specialist in the history of the German occupation of France during World War II, and who coined the term 'negationism', was held for ten hours and threatened with deportation by officials at Houston International Airport where he had arrived to give a talk at a conference organised by the Texas A&M University.
Abraham Poincheval, 44, who has previously spent a fortnight sewn-up inside a stuffed bear, hopes to remain one week in the Paris Palais de Tokyo art museum closed inside a limestone rock carved in the middle with just enough space for his body and supplies.
Former Australian national rugby team member James O’Connor and former All Black player Ali Williams were arrested outside a nightclub in the French capital for allegedly buying cocaine from two suspected drug dealers.
A protest in the town of Nantes, north-west France, by more than two thousand people against a planned visit there on Sunday by Front National presidential candidate Marine Le Pen ended in ugly confrontations with police, during which businesses were vandalised and several officers injured.
In a response to US President Donald Trump's claims that a close friend no longer wanted to take his family to Paris, the capital's mayor Anne Hidalgo, launching a tourism campaign while celebrating the 25th anniversary of the French Disneyland site, tweeted a picture of herself with Mickey and Minnie Mouse celebrating the city's "dynamism and spirit of openness".
While support for the early favourite to win this spring's presidential election, conservative candidate François Fillon, has slumped over allegations of providing fake jobs for his family, a separate fake jobs scandal surrounding far-right frontrunner Marine Le Pen appears to have so far caused little damage to her campaign.
Conservative presidential candidate François Fillon's campaign has met with a further setback after the Paris prosecutor's office decided on Friday to hand its preliminary investigation into his suspected misuse of public funds by employing his wife and children as parliamentary aides, for work allegedly never carried out, to a powerful judicial investigation.
French far-right Front National party leader and presidential election frontrunner Marine Le Pen, implicated in an alleged scam to pay party workers with European Parliament funds, said she will not attend a French magistrate's summons for questioning over the affair before the end of the elections in May.
