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One of French emperor Napoleon's bicorne hats is sold for a record 1.93 million (around US$2.11 million) at an auction in France.
2023-11-19

Around 50 people are injured and one is missing after an explosion and fire on Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, France.
2023-06-21

President Emmanuel Macron announces a €30 billion plan to re-industrialize France, in order to address what he called "a kind of growth deficit" and make France reclaim its title as a "global leader in innovation and research".
2021-10-12

A police officer is shot dead during a narcotics raid in Avignon, France.
2021-05-5

France reports four cases of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil.
2021-02-4

The United Kingdom imposes a two-week quarantine for travellers or people coming from France and the Netherlands, as well as Monaco, Malta, Turks and Caicos, and Aruba. The measure will take effect on 04:00 BST on Saturday, August 15.
2020-08-13

At least one person is killed after a group of armed men took people hostage in the northern French town of Roubaix near the Belgian border. The hostages are thought to be a bank director and his family. French police say the incident may be related to a robbery and not to the November 2015 attacks in Paris.
2015-11-24

World leaders travel to Normandy in France to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the first day of the Western Allies Invasion of Normandy during World War II.
2014-06-6

An Algerian C-295 military transport plane with six people on board crashes near Avignon in southern France. Rescuers locate the remains of four of the passengers, while two others remain missing. [https:--www.reuters.com-article-2012-11-09-us-france-plane-idUSBRE8A816K20121109 (Reuters)] [http:--www.trust.org-alertnet-news-algerian-military-plane-crashes-in-france-four-dead- (Trust.org)]date=August 2019
2012-11-9

French-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot dies of cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2010-10-14