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A French navy helicopter-carrier arrives in capital of Corsica, Ajaccio, to evacuate coronavirus patients from the Mediterranean island to hospitals in nearby Marseille. IMAGES
Though service has been reduced and movements restricted as France goes into a near-total shutdown over the coronavirus, some Parisians continue to use the city's subway lines. IMAGES
Farmers organise a blockade of the A62 motorway near Agen in south-west France. Protests continue across France, the day after a meeting with the government of new French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and as a meeting of European ministers for the sector begins. IMAGES
Six people aged between 39 and 54 are on trial at the Rhone Criminal Court in France for the robbery of an armoured truck in Switzerland in 2017 with a record haul of nearly €42 million. Three of the six defendants are still on the run. IMAGES
Speaking at the re-opening of the National Maritime Museum in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron asserts France's investments in the Sea "with to the two latest laws on military programming and with the scientific and industrial programmes that we want to safeguard". (COMPLETE VID344Z97T_FR) SOUNDBITE