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On 18 December 1970 Airbus Industrie was created under French law as a Groupement d'Intérêt Économique, bringing the A300's industrial partners together as one managed programme.

The first production Tupolev Tu-144S, CCCP-77102, broke apart during its flying display at Le Bourget on 3 June 1973 and fell on Goussainville, killing all six crew and eight people on the ground.

Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde bound for New York, crashed into a hotel at Gonesse minutes after takeoff from Paris on 25 July 2000, killing all 109 aboard and four on the ground, the type's only fatal accident.

Air France and British Airways resumed Concorde passenger flights to New York on 7 November 2001, fifteen months after Flight 4590, with Kevlar fuel-tank liners, reinforced undercarriage and new tyres.

Embraer unveiled its second-generation E-Jets, the E175-E2, E190-E2 and E195-E2, on 17 June 2013 with an investment of US$1.7 billion and orders for as many as 365 aircraft on day one.

Meeting in Congress at Versailles on 4 March 2024, France's deputies and senators voted 780 to 72 to add women's guaranteed freedom to have an abortion to the Constitution, the first country to do so.

The French Football Federation announced on 30 April 2024 that Nike will keep supplying all French national teams for the 2026-27 to 2033-34 seasons, after a tender; financial terms were not published.

After six months and 73 hearings, a Senate commission said the French state hid Nestlé Waters' use of banned treatments on Perrier, Vittel, Contrex and Hépar, a fraud France's fraud-control agency puts at over 3 billion euros.

Alo Yoga is to take 2,120 m² at 92 avenue des Champs-Élysées, the former Zara flagship, for its first store in France.

The Paris prosecutor's public-health unit opened five investigations, for deception endangering health and endangering life, into infant formula sold by Nestlé, Lactalis, Danone, Babybio and La Marque en moins.

World of Frozen opened on 29 March 2026 at Disneyland Paris, with a life-size Arendelle, the Frozen Ever After boat ride and a daytime show, as Walt Disney Studios Park was renamed Disney Adventure World.

An Assemblée nationale fact-finding mission found contaminated formula stayed on sale for weeks after the alert and that five weeks passed between Nestlé's first recall and France's health crisis centre hearing of it, and made 12 recommendations.

President Trump signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran at the Palace of Versailles after the G7 summit, committing both sides to a final deal within 60 days, lifting the US naval blockade and reopening the Strait of Hormuz toll-free.

At the French-Saudi Investment Roundtable in Paris, Aramco announced a drilling-equipment procurement agreement, an oil country tubular goods purchase deal and an Aramco Digital MoU on industrial AI and digital twins, worth a potential $3.7 billion combined. It came during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to France.

PISA 2025, released on 8 September 2026, tested about 760,000 students in science, reading and maths, with an OECD average of 482 in science and mathematics down 46 points since 2003.

Celine Dion played her first concert in six years before a sold-out crowd of 35,000 at Plenitude Arena outside Paris, opening a 26-night residency that runs into May 2027.

The 22nd Whisky Live Paris, run by La Maison du Whisky, opened to the public on 26 and 27 September 2026 with a trade day on 28 September.

At the 10th Kura Master in Paris on 30 September 2026, Yamanashi Meijo's Shichiken Hoshi no Kagayaki Sparkling won the sake President's Award, the first sparkling sake to do so.

XPeng premiered the G9L in Europe at the Paris Motor Show on 12 October 2026 from 74,990 euros in France, after a European pre-production car completed trial production at Magna's Graz plant in Austria on 7 October.

Li Auto unveiled the Li 6 (the Li i6 for Europe) and its European strategy at the Paris Motor Show on 12 October 2026, with sales and deliveries starting in Norway and the Netherlands in Q1 2027, later than the Q4 2026 first planned.

The global food trade show runs 17 to 21 October 2026, opening on a Saturday to ease transport, with about 8,000 exhibitors and 295,000 professionals expected.

The Paris chocolate and pastry show runs 28 October to 1 November 2026 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, with live pastry demonstrations and a chocolate musical show.

The biennial naval defence and maritime security show runs 3-6 November 2026 in Hall 6 at Paris Nord Villepinte, with more than 450 exhibitors and 150 delegations.

Salesforce says it has cancelled the November 5 Paris event because of the national day of social mobilization and expected major transport disruption. The retained November 5 date identifies the cancelled event, not a new cancellation-announcement day.

Alo Yoga's first Paris store, a 2,120 m² flagship in the former Zara unit at 92 avenue des Champs-Élysées, promised for early 2026 and still unopened.

Celine Dion closes CELINE DION PARIS 2026-2027 at Plenitude Arena on the last of 10 May 2027 nights added for fans shut out of the sold-out 2026 shows, the 26th concert of her comeback run.