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French

7 months ago

Lunchtime at the Gare du Nord, Friday. After a brief State visit to Paris, it was time to head home, pausing only for a gentle cafe/Cognac/Bloody Mary or three before boarding the Eurostar.
"Everyone wants to push their own agenda and fly their ideological flag," Sébastien Lecornu says.
Thousands of people marched Saturday in the French southern port city of Marseille to denounce drug trafficking after the killing last week of an activist's brother shocked the country.
Samantha Rea visited Wales for the first time to join in with the Beaujolais Day celebrations in Swansea. The French tradition marks the selling of the Beaujolais Nouveau for that year.

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Michel Simon, who steals the show in Jean Vigo’s 1934 masterpiece L’Atalante, was a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos – and total chaos

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The French oil major denies it is liable for the climate impacts that Hugues Falys has suffered.

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Idriss Ghazi Kareem, a 45-year-old Iraqi Kurd, was last week sentenced to 15 years by French judges for the manslaughter of seven Afghans who drowned on the way to the UK.

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