Kim Willsher

French government withdraws funding after claims of toxic management and dismissal of staff member who lodged rape complaint

Fishers from the Brittany coast are sending horse-hair nets to catch weapons and shield civilians and soldiers

The fast-fashion retailer has faced a backlash after the childlike dolls were discovered for sale on its website

Killing of Lola Daviet three years ago led to outcry after far right was accused of exploiting her death for political gain

Lise Sobéron’s Wondermum app has name and graphics allegedly similar to DC’s Wonder Woman, lawyers claim

Portrait of Dora Maar completed in Paris during war had been in private collection since being bought in 1944

He is one of the worst sexual predators in history – and she agreed to be his lawyer. But why? The woman who was called ‘the devil’s advocate’ explains all

Family of French woman killed by ex-partner to go to court to find out why she was not protected

Trial to open in Nice of Thierry Fialek-Birles, accused of an ‘elaborate fraud’ against the actor and director Dany Boon

A huge lake formed by a melting glacier above Pralognan-la-Vanoise could inundate the village – but a project is under way to stop it

Fleur Breteau tells of how case was merely a symptom of a wider problem contaminating food and water systems

Database of 8m handwritten census entries paints portrait of city that was hub for intellectuals, artists and young, single people

Said to be too fragile to move in 2018, tests including a dress rehearsal, and a renovation have led to a change of heart

Collectors say creation of museum honouring Hector Guimard, who died in 1942, will right a historic wrong

Copper-coated figures will be hoisted on to cathedral’s reconstructed spire after devastating blaze of 2019

Poppins connects people who have things they use rarely with those who want to borrow or rent them

The bag was made for the British-born singer and actor after a chance encounter with the head of the French luxury goods firm

TV star tells court of moment when two gunmen burst into the bedroom of her luxury hotel apartment in 2016

TV, tablets and smartphones ‘hinder and alter brain development’, open letter says

The Lunar Hatch project aims to blast eggs into space, hoping that aquaculture will provide protein for astronauts on missions