France's Representative Council of Jewish Institutions (CRIF) condemned comments by Israeli defence minister Avigdor Liberman who said a French plan to hold Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Paris in January was 'a tribunal against the State of Israel' comparable to the 1894 anti-Semitic show trial of French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus.
The prolific writer, author of The Purple Taxi and member of the French Academy, died of a pulmonary embolism in Galway, Ireland, where he settled with his family in 1968.
The racist advert, placed in an estate agent's office in a Paris suburb and subsequently photographed and posted on social media, demanded that candidates to become tenants of an apartment should be of French nationality and not black.
Jacqueline Sauvage, 69, who was twice convicted for shooting dead her husband after decades of his violent attacks and sexual abuse, including against his own daughters, has been pardoned by President François Hollande.
Tunisian national Anis Amri, 24, who was shot dead by Italian police in Milan on December 23rd, was caught on CCTV footage at a central rail station in the French city of Lyon after escaping from Germany where he was wanted on suspicion of killing 12 people in an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.
Far-right Front National party member Julien Sanchez, mayor of Beaucaire in southern France, has renamed a street in his town 'rue du Brexit' in what he said was a tribute to the British referendum in June which saw a majority in favour of leaving the European Union.
Makers of the headgear once popular among 19th-century peasants and which has long symbolised a now bygone rural France have for decades been in decline, but now one is making a comeback with models for fashionistas that can fetch up to 1,000 euros.
Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the resulting fall in the value of sterling have caused it to fall behind France in a world economic ranking produced by the independent think-tank CEBR, which also predicts strong rise in Asian economies over the coming years.
Coville, 48, shaved five days off the previous record, set in 2008, when he arrived back in his native region of Brittany, north-west France, on Sunday after 49 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes and 38 seconds circumnavigating the world without stopping.
A 19-year-old man was shot dead in a café in the Mediterranean port in an attack by three men who the local prosecutor said are also suspected of kidnapping an aquaintance who was with him.
