Hundreds of love letters written by prominent French gangster Jacques Mesrine, who died in a hail of police bullets in Paris in 1979, to his girlfriend Jeanne Schneider are to be sold in Paris in November by auctioneers who say, despite his claim to have killed 39 people, they show 'he could be quite funny, romantic, a bit misogynistic, but very much in love'.
French President Emmanuel Macron is to visit Israel on Tuesday when, one of his advisors said, he will present Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with proposals 'as operational as possible' for an end to the escalating war with Hamas.
The Senegalese government is in negotiations to directly buy posessions, previously due to be auctioned in France, of Léopold Sédar Senghor, the West African country's late first president, an illustrious writer, poet and champion of the 'Négritude' movement founded in the 1930s with Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas.
A judicial investigation is underway into suspected human trafficking by a company providing Champagne producers with grape pickers, many of whom are from West Africa and who work inspectors found were lodged in insalubrious accomodation which one migrant worker said 'still makes me cry'.
The Palace of Versailles was evacuated over a hoax bomb alert for the sixth time in seven days on Saturday, when regional aiports in Tours and Clerment-Ferrand were also evacuated, as a week-long spate of hoax bomb threats in France targeting schools, cultural sites and airports continues.
The trial for alleged tax fraud has begun in Paris of French actress Isabelle Adjani, whose cinema career began in the 1980s and who starred in films such as La Reine Margot and Camille Claudel, but the 68-year-old star was absent in court due to what her lawyers described as an 'acute illness'.
Six regional airports around France were evacuated on Wednesday after receiving bomb threats, while similar threats also prompted the evacuation of the Château de Versailles near Paris for the third time since Saturday, as the country maintained its highest nationwide security alert for a fifth day.
The broad parliamentary alliance of France's leftwing parties, the NUPES, appeared close to collapse on Wednesday because of strongly diverging opinions over the crisis in the Middle East.
'We are NOT a Mickey Mouse parliament' joked on social media Daniel Freund when he and hundreds of fellow members of the European Parliament (MEPs) discovered the train carrying them from Brussels to the chamber's base in Strasbourg ended up arriving at Disneyland Paris.
Auguste Rodin's sculpture Les Bourgeois de Calais, estimated to be worth 3.47 million euros (3 million pounds), inspired by the plight of the French port’s residents during an 11-month siege by the English during the Hundred Years War, has been declared lost by the company that manages Glasgow’s museums and arts galleries.
