Hollywood star George Clooney has become French, along with his wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney and their two children, an official decree seen by AFP on Monday showed.Clooney is not the only Hollywood luminary to want to go French: US director Jim Jarmusch on Friday told France Inter radio that he plans to apply for French nationality.

A celebrated cultural icon who has left an indelible mark on fashion history, Brigitte Bardot was also a prototype for the Trump-era pin-up.

New tax filings reveal that Bill Gates donated $7.9 billion last year to ex-wife Melinda French Gates’ own philanthropy, Pivotal Ventures. The news comes roughly a year and a half after French Gates resigned from the Gates Foundation, which they founded together, to focus on her own advocacy.

A union representing French police officers has sunk the United Kingdom's latest plan to slow the flow of illegal immigrants across the English Channel. London had hoped French police officers would soon start intercepting people-smugglers' boats as they left France.

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.

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

Roan, who name-checked Bardot in her song “Red Wine Supernova,” initially memorialized the actress on social media after learning of her passing. “She was my inspiration for red wine supernova,” she wrote. “Rest in peace, Ms. Bardot.” Following fan backlash, Roan posted a retraction to her Instagram.

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".