The conspiracy theory arose from the admittedly – hmm, let’s call it “unusual” – way Emmanuel and Brigitte first met. It was back in 1993, when Brigitte, a married mother-of-three working as a teacher at La Providence High School in Amiens, northern France, fell for Macron, who was then her 15-year-old drama student.

The disruption gave loud voice to widespread complaints that eight years of leadership by France’s business-friendly president have benefited too few people and hurt too many.

Hundreds of thousands took part in anti-austerity protests across France on Thursday, unions said, urging President Emmanuel Macron and his new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to acknowledge their anger and scrap looming budget cuts.

Sébastien Lecornu, 39, is a Macron loyalist who has served as defense minister since 2022. The National Assembly ousted former Prime Minister François Bayrou in a no-confidence vote on Monday.

French president Emmanuel Macron has taken to Israeli television to deliver his strongest criticism yet of the country's war in Gaza, warning that its military campaign is 'totally destroying' its global image and credibility.

The towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened Friday, six years after one of the world’s most famous landmarks was ravaged by a fire.

The French president had set himself the goal, from the very beginning of his presidency, to contain antisemitism and deny it any legitimacy in the republican space (speech of July 16, 2017, at the commemoration of the Velodrome d’Hiver roundup).

France's president on Friday welcomed the arrest this week in the occupied West Bank of a key Palestinian suspect in a 1982 terror attack in Paris, calling it the result of “excellent cooperation” with the Palestinian Authority.