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Mona Lisa will now have its own dedicated room, announces French President MacronFrench President Emmanuel Macron announced a major renovation and expansion of the Louvre, including a dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, cu...
Ex-president Hollande surprise candidate in French electionHollande, France's president from 2012-2017, left office with record levels of unpopularity and is detested by some within the radical left...
View: Don't you forget to rememberJoe Biden's persistent lapses of memory have become a talking point in the US. Earlier this month, in his investigation into POTUS' handlin...
Who is France's first openly gay PM? Here are top things about Gabriel AttalEmmanuel Macron appointed Gabriel Attal, France's youngest post-war prime minister, as education minister. Attal, who is openly gay, joined...
Paris police open fire on a woman who allegedly made threats in the latest security incidentPolice said officers opened fire after she didn't respond to their warnings. Police responded after a train passenger phoned the emergency ...
How one beheading 50 years ago led France to end the death penaltyRoger Bontems, 36, was beheaded for being an accessory to the brutal murder of a nurse and a guard during a break-out attempt at a prison i...
Move over, Jupiter: France's parliament takes centre stageFor five years, Macron ruled as intended -- a leader with a strong majority that enabled him to push through changes, with only street demo...
Elisabeth Borne appointed France's new prime ministerBorne, 61, succeeds Jean Castex, whose resignation was expected after President Emmanuel Macron's reelection last month. Macron and Borne a...
Michel Bouquet, a legend of French stage and screen, dies at 96Bouquet passed away in a Paris hospital.
'Secret masterpiece' by late French artist Claude Lalanne fetches $1.44 mn at auctionLalanne designed it for the garden at the European Centre for Executive Development (CEDEP).
Eclectic French tycoon Bernard Tapie, dies aged 78Tapie was born in Paris in 1943, the son of a plumber, and pulled himself out of a poor suburban childhood to become one of France's riches...
France to open archive for period covering Rwandan genocideThe report, published in March, concluded that French authorities remained blind to the preparations for genocide as they supported the “ra...
Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing dies at age 94Giscard d'Estaing's office said he passed away in his family home in the Loir-et-Cher region, in central France, after contracting COVID-19.
How politicians have long used animals to connect with people, or to make a pointEven Mahatma Gandhi, who felt keeping pets was a distraction – “you cannot serve man and dogs at the same time and therefore dogs should no...
French President Francois Hollande says there’s no alternative to a 'Strong Europe'He listed recent recessions, youth unemployment, refugees, and wars in the Middle East and Ukraine as events that raised fears in Europe.
- Sarkozy hospitalized after collapsing during jog
French President Nicolas Sarkozy collapsed suddenly while jogging on Sunday on the lush grounds of the Chateau of Versailles, then was rush...
- Rothschild father of French banking empire dies at 98
Baron Guy de Rothschild, patriarch of the French banking empire, has died, his family announced on Thursday.