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German lift manufacturer, Böcker, turned to social media when they spotted their ladder used in the Louvre theft. In a post, the firm said: "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min — quiet as a whisper."

On Sunday, shortly after the Louvre opened, four burglars made away with eight pieces of jewellery once belonging to French royalty, fleeing the museum on scooters. While experts say the priceless items will be impossible to sell in their current condition, questions are also being raised over security failings and…

French police are hunting a gang of experienced thieves who stole eight rare jewels from the Louvre Museum in broad daylight.

Eight pieces stolen, but crown of Napoleon III’s wife dropped by the fleeing thieves

While Paris steals an understandably large portion of the limelight, US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill reveals other French treasures that make for captivating vacation destinations

If you're lucky enough to come across the right coin, you could become nearly half-a-million dollars richer.

In 1867, the world’s most powerful statesmen, including Austria’s Emperor Franz Josef, France’s Napoleon III and US secretary of state, William H. Seward, petitioned the Mexican government to spare the life of a condemned man.

COMMENT: Despite Notre-Dame’s return as the spiritual centre of Paris, its reconstruction is a tribute to former glories rather than a sign that France or Europe is enjoying a renaissance, Mark Almond writes

New Caledonia has marked the anniversary of its French colonization with tight security and simmering tensions between the pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and the white settler communities loyal to Paris