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CLEAN : "We will not lower our guard", warns Yves Veyrier (FO) at the May Day parade
French union leaders gather at the head of the May Day march in Paris ahead of the procession, urging the government to protect precarious workers both now and in the future (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : France left-wing celebrates 40th anniversary of François Mitterrand election
France's left-wing party meet in Le Creusot to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the election of François Mitterrand. Former French president François Hollande says "the left is on its ways" to the press (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : On the Seine, French writers appeal for bookshops to be kept afloat
Some of the biggest names in modern-day French literature boarded a riverboat on the Seine on Thursday to call on the government to protect the country's book trade, which is suffering under the pandemic (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : French children write to Santa Claus asking for gifts and urging him to stay healthy
At Santa Claus' French secretariat in Libourne in the Gironde, an army of green elves is busy answering more than a million letters containing, as usual, lists of gifts and dreams to be fulfilled but also fears for his health and...
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CLEAN : Faced with 3rd Covid-19 wave, Paris hospital says "the breaking point is not far off"
From respiratory to the intensive care departments, Covid-19 cases are once again overflowing everywhere at the Cochin AP-HP hospital, where the bleak scenario of a "super crisis" is already being drawn up (Footage by AFPTV via Getty...
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CLEAN : Two centuries after his death, a historian looks back on Napoleon's divisive legacy
Two centuries after his death, the jury is still out on Napoleon. The "emperor of the French" modernised France and won some of the most famous battles in history, but also enshrined the subordination of women into law and re-established...
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CLEAN : Fire in southern France not yet 'under control', says fire service
A fixed fire does not mean that the fire is under control. It means that the fire can start again in a certain plac (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Survivors of 13th November Paris terror attacks meet high school students
On 13 November 2015, Jean-Claude was in the bar of the Bataclan in Paris while Stéphane was upstairs (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Covid: French street artists paint positive messages on Paris's walls
Love always wins", "Trust", "Relax" or "Sweetness (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Rémy Daillet's lawyer reacts after client's arrest on arrival in France
Rémy Daillet's lawyer believes that the abduction of little Mia in the spring must be put into its "context" and that his client has only uttered "words" that lead to "prejudging his guilt (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : 2021 baccalaureate: French students take on new oral exam
French final-year high-school students take the 'grand oral' exam, a new feature of the updated baccalaureate (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : French indoor football players return to pitch as lockdown eased
It's good to see a real pitch again". At the Five Club in Paris, indoor football players return to the pitch, after hanging up their boots for over six months, as France eases Covid restrictions (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Tour de France fan who caused huge opening day crash goes on trial
The spectator behind one of the biggest pile-ups in Tour de France history goes on trial in western France, charged with injuring dozens of riders on the cycling race's first day last summer (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : End of the line? French locomotives revived at train graveyard
Long considered a locomotive graveyard for state-owned railway operator SNCF, a former marshalling yard in Normandy is now the link in a "deconstruction and recycling chain" spread over several technical centres in France (Footage by...
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CLEAN : Questions over French role in Mali as fallen corporal given national tribute
It might be time to get out of there": among the French public who came to pay tribute to Maxime Blasco at the Alexandre III bridge in Paris, the French corporal killed in Mali, emotion was omnipresent (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Disabled worker in Ritz's kitchens as part of French 'DuoDay' initiative
A chef and disabled worker, Alexandre Borghi spends a day in the kitchens of the Ritz hotel in Paris under chef Lahcen Hafid during DuoDay', an operation that brings together disabled people and able-bodied workers for a day (Footage by...
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CLEAN : 'A body for dialogue' has been created in Guadeloupe, says French PM Castex
"No, I cannot say that the conditions for a return to calm have been met," says Max Mathiasin, Guadeloupe MP, after a meeting with Prime Minister Jean Castex, who announced the creation of a "dialogue body" to deal with the crisis on the...
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CLEAN : French Left launches 'Nupes Parliament' to encourage "increased involvement"
French Left icon Jean-Luc Mélenchon launches the "New Popular Ecological and Social Union Parliament" (Nupes) in the presence of political leaders from France's Left in order to promote "mass popular involvement", which he said is...
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CLEAN : Unique albino Galapagos turtle born in Swiss tropical zoo
White shell and red eyes: this baby tortoise born in May in a tropical zoo located in Servion, western Switzerland, is the first albino Galapagos giant turtle ever observed in captivity or in the wild, according to Philippe Morel, the...
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CLEAN : Macron in Amiens like a "campaigning Father Christmas," denounces local MP
He's a "president-candidate" campaigning "like Father Christmas," denounces French MP Francois Ruffin as Emmanuel Macron visits his hometown of Amiens to meet with local representatives (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : France's tallest man becomes viral sensation on Tiktok
His humorous videos have made him a star on social networks: at 2.22m, professional basketball player Vincent Pourchot has turned his height into a strength, to encourage those who suffer from physical differences to feel more confident...
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CLEAN : Reactions as driver in fatal French school bus accident given suspended term
"We didn't expect it to be very severe, it's not easy, it's a light sentence of five years," says the father of one of the children who died in the school bus accident in Rochefort (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : PROFILE: Guinea's ex-President Alpha Conde
FILE images of Guinea's ousted President Alpha Conde, as the country announces it will prosecute the former president, who was toppled in a military coup last December, for murder and other crimes committed during his time in office...
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CLEAN : 40 years after a deadly Paris anti-Semitic attack, victims demand justice
Families and victims of the anti-semitic attack on Rue des Rosiers in the city's Jewish neighbourhood demand justice, 40 years later (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)