French billionaire politician Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crashFrench billionaire Olivier Dassault, a politician and scion of the Dassault aircraft-making family, was killed in a helicopter crash on…Mar 10, 2021Mar 10, 2021
Paris hospitals near capacity as severe Covid-19 cases surgeThe number of people in intensive care in France who have COVID-19 is at the highest level since the end of November, health officials…Mar 10, 2021Mar 10, 2021
Freediving under the frozen lake of France’s Tignes resortHigh up in the French Alps, Tignes is one of France’s best known winter resorts. That’s of course thanks to its snow, but also a more…Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021
Trapped protesters in Myanmar allowed to leave after tense standoffHundreds of young Myanmar protesters who had been trapped by security forces in a district of Yangon overnight have been able to get out…Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021
The same lesson has not been lost on the Gibert groupBattered by Covid and online sales, one of Paris’s best-known book sellers Gibert Jeune is to shut up shop in the city’s historic literary…Mar 8, 2021Mar 8, 2021
Paris’s renowned Latin Quarter bookshops feel the Covid-19 squeezeBattered by Covid and online sales, one of Paris’s best-known book sellers Gibert Jeune is to shut up shop in the city’s historic literary…Mar 8, 2021Mar 8, 2021