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A survey of purchasing managers finds French economic activity shrank in January, but at a slower pace than before, when profit margins fell.

A bitter dispute over the closure of the Amiens plant ended when workers occupying the site accepted significantly increased severance pay. 

The anti-Semitic French comic was arrested after a bailiff complained of being assaulted when demanding payment from him of several fines.

Philippe El Shennawy, 60, was found guilty of robbing a Paris bank and taking hostages in 1977, crimes he has always denied committing.

The legislation prohibits members of the French or European parliaments from holding local executive offices such as mayorships from 2017.

The plight of migrant Roma squatters, harshly scapegoated and ostracized, is only getting worse in France, warns a New York Times editorial.

Public embrace of 'supply-side socialism' is generating as much pressure on the French president as are revelations of his personal life.

The proposed law will allow women to obtain an abortion at up to 12 weeks into a pregnacy, and removes requirement of being in distress.

French president used yearly address to employers and unions to insist firms must invest and hire young and older workers to get the labour tax break.

Judges rule that German company which certified the French-made implants must pay 3,000 euros in interim damages to each claimant.