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French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his new Education Minister, Amelie Oudea-Castera, visit a secondary school in Andresy, Yvelines, near Paris, as part of the 'knowledge shock', a wide-ranging package of reforms aimed at raising students' academic standards. (COMPLETES VIDI34ER4ZY_EN) IMAGES
French Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin on his first official visit to the Ivory Coast, meets with President Alassane Ouattara in the capital, Abidjan. The trip is a bid to cement the cooperation between the two countries. IMAGES
After announcing that she was "considering her candidacy" for the 2022 presidential election, former French Minister of Justice, Christiane Taubira, causes a crush during a visit in Saint-Denis near Paris. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex and the Minister for Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, welcome to Matignon about twenty representatives of the Citizen's Climate Convention for an update. Several months ago 149 proposals were made by 150, randomly-picked citizens, 146 of which were initially accepted by president Emmanuel Macron. Critics including Grenoble's mayor, ecologist Eric Piolle, say the government is steadily dropping the proposals one by one. IMAGES
For his first outing as Justice Minister, Eric Dupond-Moretti visited the Fresnes prison. The famous lawyer and newly appointed member of the French government said he was "concerned about freedom, about the conditions of detention and about the working conditions of prison staff". (COMPLETES VIDI1US3E1_EN) SOUNDBITE