Brigitte Bardot, the French film goddess who has died aged 91, was the original “sex kitten”, celebrated for her piquant air of Lolita-ish sensuality which heralded a new era of permissiveness in the cinema,

President Emmanuel Macron has previously denied that Laurent Vinatier worked for the French state and has described his arrest as part of a misinformation campaign by Moscow.

A French bistro that has been operating in Covent Garden since the Second World War is selling its interior decorations ahead of a refurbishment. The restaurant was founded in 1943 by two brothers and sold to the establishment's maitre'd Alain Lhermitte in 1973. Mon Plaisir is described as "London's oldest family-run French restaurant".

Algerian legislators have declared France's colonization a crime, demanding restitution for property taken during its 130-year rule

A longtime strategic partner of Haiti with a deeply fraught shared history, France has traditionally been reluctant to deploy boots on the ground.