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Authorities in Gabon have launched a legal battle to get back a precious wooden mask used in secret ceremonies by the Fang ethnic group, which was brought to France in colonial times and sold at auction earlier this year for €4.2 million. Lawyers for the transitional government in Gabon, whose long-time president was overthrown in a coup two months ago, appeared in court in Alès in southern France on Tuesday to demand that the sale be cancelled and the mask repatriated.They argue that the artefa

The pictures of the King and President Macron suggest relations are tremendously cordiale, bordering on le bromance. Jokes shared. Warm smiles and tender gazes

Rare edition of Romain Gary novel and medal to celebrate accession to be presented by French president in gift exchange at the Elysée Palace

Military juntas have been seizing control of France’s former colonies, and it could be just as consequential as the Arab Spring – with all the chaos that entails

Today in History for Sept. 4: In 1535, French explorer Jacques Cartier landed at Ile au Coudres and attended the celebration of the first Roman Catholic mass in Canada. In 1768, French novelist Francois Rene Chateaubriand was born in St. Malo.