The attacker at the school in Nantes, reported to be a 15-year-old student, was overpowered by teachers before police officers arrived.

At the recent LVMH annual meeting in Paris, shareholders of the luxury goods group granted its 76-year-old billionaire boss Bernard Arnault the right to continue at the helm until the age of 85.

Two people close to François Bayrou said he was in a state of “intense emotion” after learning about the incident at the scandal-hit school in south-west France.

The sexually abusive behaviour by Abbé Pierre, the late French Catholic priest who became revered in France for his ...

April 17th marked the bicentenary of France’s recognition of the independence of Haiti, its former colony, when in return it ...

A 27-year-old British man, who has not been named, died of cardiac arrest after being dug out of the snow of an avalanche ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou was this week further engulfed in controversy over whether he knew but kept quiet about ...

Just as a long period of soured relations between France and Algeria, its former North African colony, appeared to be on the ...

Following the expulsion earlier this week of 12 French officials from Algeria after an Algerian consulate official in France ...

President Emmanuel Macron said France plans to recognise a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a ...

Retired French surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, is standing trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting 299 people, many ...

French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen, who has appealed her conviction for diverting European Parliament funds for the ...