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French artist Jean-Luc Verna, center, poses with performers during the inauguration of his sculpture, a memorial to the long-ignored gay victims of the Nazi regime and to all LGBTQ+ people persecuted throughout history, in Paris, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Paris unveils a memorial to LGBTQ+ victims of Nazi regime and other persecutions

A memorial to the long-ignored gay victims of the Nazi regime and to all LGBTQ+ people persecuted throughout history has been unveiled in Paris.
 
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau leaves the weekly cabinet meeting, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France is banning activist groups as presidential rivals jockey for position ahead of 2027 poll

 
Residents wave flags at French President Emmanuel Macron upon his arrival in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

Macron in Madagascar for the first state visit by a French leader to the former colony in 20 years

 
American painter Kehinde Wiley stands in front of a portrait of Alpha Condé, former president of Guinea, during the opening of his exhibition A Maze of Power in Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, in Rabat, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Artist Kehinde Wiley puts power in a new frame with paintings of African leaders

 
French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, center, flanked by his daughter Marine Le Pen, and Bruno Gollnisch, arrives for a wreath-laying ceremony at the statue of Joan of Arc, within the party's traditional May Day march Saturday May 1, 2010, in Paris.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)

As Jean-Marie Le Pen is buried, here’s a look at key dates of the rise of the far right in France

 

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Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right National Front, dies at 96

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right National Front, dies at 96

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Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, Monday May 1, 2017, in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96

 
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the courtroom for his appeal trial of trying to bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated Monday, Dec. 5, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

France’s highest court upholds corruption conviction of former President Nicolas Sarkozy

 
FILE - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, and French President Emmanuel Macron pose before their talks at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, July 14, 2023. India has invited French President Emmanuel Macron to be the chief guest at the country's national day celebrations next month, in what Macron's office described Friday Dec.22, 2023 as "a strong moment" for the two nation's ties. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)

French President Emmanuel Macron will be the guest of honor at India’s Republic Day celebrations

 
FILE - Supporters of Capt. Ibrahim Traore protest against France and the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS in the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Oct. 4, 2022. In Sept. 2023, The era of France's arm-twisting interventionism in Africa may finally be over. France has sat by militarily despite moves by putschists to seize control of former French colonies in recent years. (AP Photo/Kilaye Bationo, File)

France’s waning influence in coup-hit Africa appears clear while few remember their former colonizer

 
FILE - General Jean-Louis Georgelin who is to oversee reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral, attends an interview in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. The decorated French general in charge of big-budget restoration work on fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has died on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. Jean-Louis Georgelin was 74. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French general overseeing restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, Jean-Louis Georgelin, dies at 74