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Former French first lady Bernadette Chirac attends a a tribute ceremony to French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil in the courtyard of the Invalides in Paris, on July 5, 2017. (Michel Euler / POOL / AFP)
June 6, 2026, 6:16 pm
Bernadette Chirac, formidable former first lady of France, dies at 93
Chirac spent 12 years at the Élysée Palace alongside her husband, Jacques, enduring infidelity and building power of her own. ‘A great lady of the heart has departed’ says Macron
By Thomas Adamson
French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting, "Madame Alphonse Daudet," left, is seen at the Musée d'Orsay museum's new permanent gallery dedicated artworks recovered after World War II whose ownership remains uncertain, in Paris on May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
May 6, 2026, 6:47 am
New gallery at Paris museum reckons with French role in Nazi art looting
Musée d’Orsay displays works that have been unclaimed since the Nazis obtained them during WWII, when the art market in Paris grew rich on the looted property of slaughtered Jews
By Thomas Adamson
French actress Brigitte Bardot poses with a huge sombrero she brought back from Mexico, as she arrives at Orly Airport in Paris on May 27, 1965. (AP/File)
December 28, 2025, 1:53 pm
Brigitte Bardot, sultry ’60s sex symbol-turned-militant animal rights activist, dies at 91
Iconic French actress abandoned the screen to campaign for animals, including controversial calls to ban Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter; was convicted 5 times of inciting racial hatred
By Thomas Adamson and Elaine Ganley
Elon Musk attends the public memorial service for slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
November 21, 2025, 10:31 pm
France to investigate Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot after posts denying Holocaust
Grok tweeted that gas chambers at Auschwitz were designed for ‘disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus’ rather than mass murder
By Thomas Adamson
Director Marcel Ophuls shows the Berlinale Camera award after he is honored for his lifetime achievement during the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, February 11, 2015. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
May 27, 2025, 8:05 am
Director of French Holocaust documentary ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ dies at 91
Oscar-winning filmmaker Marcel Ophuls forced France to face its WWII past with movie that punctured myth of broad resistance against collaboration with the Nazis
By Thomas Adamson
Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, in Paris, May 1, 2017. (Kamil Zihnioglu/AP)
January 7, 2025, 3:59 pm
French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, anti-immigrant firebrand, dies at 96
Polarizing figure, father of politician Marine Le Pen, belittled Holocaust gas chambers as ‘a detail in World War II history,’ railed against migrants and multiculturalism
By Thomas Adamson, Sylvie Corbet and Elaine Ganley
Voters make their choice in a voting booth in a voting station of Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, June 19, 2022 (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
June 19, 2022, 1:06 pm
France goes to the polls again for vote that determines direction of Macron’s term
Voters are selecting the 577 members of the National Assembly; a strong showing from Jean-Luc Melenchon’s coalition could turn French president into a shackled second-term leader
By Thomas Adamson
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a television address, in Ciboure, southwestern France, March 16, 2020. (Bob Edme/AP)
March 16, 2020, 11:08 pm
France’s Macron tells public not to go out unless they really have to
In TV address, president says country is ‘at war’ with coronavirus; threatens to punish those who don’t obey orders to stay at home except when getting ‘bare essentials’
By Thomas Adamson, LORNE COOK and Samuel Petrequin
French-Polish director Roman Polanski looks on on stage after the preview of his last movie 'J'accuse' (An Officer and a Spy) in Paris, November 4, 2019. (Thomas SAMSON/AFP)
February 14, 2020, 10:52 pm
Full board of France’s Cesar film awards steps down over Polanski nominations
Decision comes two weeks before award ceremony; director has been fugitive from US for 4 decades over rape conviction
By Thomas Adamson
French inventor Franky Zapata lands near St. Margaret's beach, Dover after crossing the Channel on a flying board on August 4, 2019. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)
August 4, 2019, 5:25 pm
French hoverboard inventor flies over the English Channel
Looking like a superhero and propelled by power pack of kerosene, Franky Zapata completes 22-mile journey in 22 minutes
By Thomas Adamson and JASON PARKINSON
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Britain's Director General for Political Affairs at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Richard Moore, Italy's Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi, US Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, from left to right, walk for a group photo on the second day of a G7 meeting at ministerial level in Dinard, Brittany, April 6, 2019. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
April 6, 2019, 11:26 pm
G7 statement acknowledges ‘clear differences’ on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Foreign ministers omit reference to two-state solution in document issued at end of meeting in France after an ‘exchange of views’
By Thomas Adamson
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech at the the Paris Peace Forum at the Villette Conference Hall in Paris on November 11, 2018. (Yoan Valat/AFP)
November 12, 2018, 3:18 pm
Trudeau says Canadian intelligence has heard tapes of Khashoggi killing
PM is first leader to acknowledge receiving recordings from Turkey documenting murder of dissident Saudi journalist
By Thomas Adamson
In this file photo from Nov. 1918, the German and French delegations speak as they wait in Rethondes for the start of the train to the Armistice conference in the Forest of Compiegne, France (AP Photo, File)
November 8, 2018, 4:06 pm
100 years later, Merkel to visit French site where WWI armistice was signed
Joined by Macron, German leader will be first chancellor to visit the location of the ‘Wagon of Compiegne’ train car since Hitler used it to stage France’s surrender in 1940
By Thomas Adamson
Director Woody Allen poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Cafe Society, at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 11, 2016. (AP/Thibault Camus)
February 3, 2018, 6:55 pm
French film distributor comes to Woody Allen’s defense amid sexual abuse claims
The head of Mars Films calls renewed allegations by Allen’s adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, ‘shameless opportunism’
By Thomas Adamson
In this photo taken on December 5, 2017, French Nazi hunters Serge Klarsfeld, (l) and his wife Beate look at the Wall of Names at the Shoah Memorial in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
December 7, 2017, 4:09 pm
Little-known story of famed Nazi hunters shown in Paris
Exhibition shows other sides of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, whose efforts brought down ‘Butcher of Lyon’ Klaus Barbie
By Thomas Adamson
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