CLEAN: Church counts on prayer in France gay marriage debate

The French food critic Christian Millau who died aged 88 is laid to rest in Paris

If we don't have support for this partial activity, we'll be forced to lay off", says the owner of a restaurant on Reunion Island in France, as the island goes under curfew at 9pm from 1 January (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Holidays are ruined" for tourists on the island of Martinique after a strict lockdown is enforced on the French overseas territory following a surge in Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

France's Republicans' party chose Eric Ciotti, the hard-right MP from the Alpes-Maritimes, as one of their two candidates, alongside Valerie Pécresse, for the French presidency in 2022 (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

In France and in Algeria, statements about the Harkis are subject to "errors" and "misrepresentation", says French historian Pierre Daum (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

We currently have seven Covid patients, all of whom are unvaccinated and who have a severe form of Covid, six of the seven patients are intubated and ventilated", says Charles Damoisel, head of the intensive care unit at the...

On the banks of the Ruzizi River, which separates the Democratic Republic of Congo from Burundi, the cohabitation between hippos and villagers remains tense (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Archive footage of the opening of a trial in which the former driver of a dump truck stands accused of causing an accident with a Rochefort school bus in 2016 in which six teenagers died (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Images of the building from which a French family plunged to their deaths from a seventh floor balcony in the western Swiss town of Montreux after officers knocked at their door (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Corsicans react in Ajaccio after the death of jailed nationalist figure Yvan Colonna (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

In the courtyard of a small hospital in Moorea, carers meet with a group of mental health professionals to discuss the explosive situation they have just experienced, as hopspital admissions begin to drop in French Polynesia (Footage by...

As Muslims prepare to celebrate Eid, French traders mark an 'increase in activity' during the fasting month of Ramadan, with one butcher shop in the city of Saint-Etienne noting a 60% rise (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

At Aimé Césaire airport in Martinique, tourists are returning to mainland France as a strict lockdown takes effect to stem the surge of Covid-19 cases (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

"I was consulted by a mother who was poisoned after eating a Buitoni brand pizza," says Pierre Debuisson, a lawyer for a woman who fell sick after eating a Buitoni brand frozen pizza (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Testing centres and pharmacies giving out antigenic Covid tests are in full swing in Nantes, where a temporary centre has been set up to meet the high demand (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

After Christmas and a few days before New Year's Eve, French people flock to pharmacies to get tested as the Omicron variant continues to spread (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

A few weeks before the French presidential election, AFPTV gives voice to voters across the country (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

A crowbar was the murder weapon in a French family drama that left four people dead in an inheritance dispute over gold coins the prosecutor of the western city of Nantes said Monday

Clip 1 from the 1956 French documentary 'Images d'hier et D'aujourd'hui' (Images of Yesterday and Today) about the history of photography, featuring reenactments from the early 1900s. In this clip, men and women pose for the camera in...

An 11-year-old child died in a fire which officials in the north-eastern city of Strasbourg suspect was arson (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Growing up with two mothers Clement Hertling had a happy childhood and has welcomed the French government's plans to finally allow single women and lesbian couples to benefit from medically assisted reproduction (Footage by AFPTV via...

A previously unseen painting by Van Gogh, kept by a family of private individuals for a century, is unveiled by Sotheby's and Mirabaud Mercier in Paris before going on sale in March (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

While the city is falling asleep, the intensive care unit of the Louis-Mourier hospital in Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine, is in full swing (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)