The tomb of one of France’s best-loved early poets has been discovered during post-fire restoration work in Notre-Dame cathedral. Scientists say they are nearly certain a lead coffin found beneath the transept is that of Joachim du Bellay, who died […]
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Eight people have died overnight while trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French police say. Rescue services were alerted after the boat got into difficulty in waters north of Boulogne-sur-mer in Pas-de-Calais after 01:00 local time (00:00
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More abuse allegations have been made against Abbé Pierre, the late French Roman Catholic priest and campaigner who was long venerated as a modern-day saint. In July, the Emmaus anti-poverty charity which Abbé Pierre founded said it had heard allegations
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Warning: This story contains distressing details from the start. A French woman who was raped by unknown men over 10 years after being drugged to sleep by her husband told a court of her horror at learning how she had
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LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP Michel Barnier (R) will need all his negotiating skills if his government is to last Michel Barnier is not the solution to Emmanuel Macron’s self-inflicted travails, because there is no solution to the presidential fix. Numbers are numbers,
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