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Emmanuel Macron holds a surprise meeting with Marseille-based Professor Didier Raoult, a proponent of chloroquine treatment for Covid-19, signalling the president's willingness to consult a broad spectrum of voices before giving his third address to the nation on the coronavirus epidemic next Monday. IMAGES
Images of the Diaconat-Fonderie clinic, where a French doctor practised medicine before contracting the coronavirus and dying from the illness. The 66-year-old gynaecologist was infected by a patient during a consultation, according to his clinic. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris where the first French novel coronavirus death occurred the previous day. Macron is then due to fly to Naples where he will meet the Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte,for a Franco-Italian summit disrupted by the coronavirus crisis. IMAGES
French MPs hold a minute of silence at the National Assembly in tribute to Admiral Philippe de Gaulle, General de Gaulle's eldest son, who died in Paris at the age of 102. IMAGES
French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu is on board the Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier anchored in the Egyptian port of Al-Arich, where wounded civilians from Gaza are being treated. The minister is spending New Year's Eve aboard the French ship, anchored some 50 kilometers from the Rafah crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, where aid is trickling in. IMAGES