presents GROUP 3 Irregular French Verbs in the PASSÉ COMPOSÉ - Lesson 48 of Alexa’s popular Beginner’s French Essentials course

presents GROUP 3 Irregular French Verbs in the PRESENT TENSE. - Lesson 47 of Alexa’s popular Beginner’s French Essentials course

There are currently 20% of intensive care beds in the Ile-de-France region that are closed due to lack of personnel (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Loaded shop windows, a 23-metre high Christmas tree and coffers in dire need of replenishment (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

When do we open? When do we close?" French restaurateurs say they are not "surprised" but "worried" the day after Prime Minister Jean Castex announced the latest Covid-19 prevention measures (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Several dozen managers of bars and cafés protest in Brussels to ask the Belgian state for financial help (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

A French-backed forum to promote democracy among young people in Africa launches, a year after the idea was unveiled at a French-African summit (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

CLEAN : French parliament mulls pension reform

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France's interior minister announced on Thursday evening that Strasbourg's Christmas market will reopen on Friday after it was shut down for two days following a deadly shooting attack.

in Paris, restaurant owners are resigned to their establishments remaining closed until 20 January. But they welcome the new aid scheme that will enable them to receive the equivalent of 20% of their turnover in 2019 (Footage by AFPTV...

Exhausted and upset by six months of closure due to the health crisis, many café and restaurant employees have decided not to return to work, forcing restaurant owners to look for replacements ahead of the reopening of terraces on 19 May...

The French Catholic Church announced the creation of a five million euro endowment fund for victims of paedophilia in the Church, at the end of the French bishops' conference in Lourdes (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The historic Richelieu site of Paris's Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF) will reopen its doors on September 17 after 12 years of renovation (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Morroco's Foreign Minister, Ahmed Laraki gives interview.<br/>
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Le Bretagne cinema in Saint-Renan in Finistère was one of several cinemas across France to hold a film screening on Sunday, the anniversary of the first closure of cinemas due to the pandemic (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

"We are going to set up a fund for educational innovation with 500 million euros", announces Emmanuel Macron (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

French Health Minister, Marisol Touraine met on Friday with a team from the French Health Emergency Reserve (EPRUS) which is about to leave for former colony Guinea, where the Ebola epidemic began.

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