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A Paris judicial court ruled on 19 December 2025 that Shein would not have to suspend its French website for three months, rejecting the government's bid to enforce a shutdown sought after the platform's childlike-sex-doll listings. The court instead ordered Shein to add genuine age verification for adult products.

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.

COMO Hotels and Resorts reopened the 1914 Belle Époque Le Beauvallon as COMO Le Beauvallon, with 42 rooms and suites, from 24 April 2026. Chef Yannick Alléno runs the dining, including a beach-club restaurant.

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.

France's consumer-fraud inspectors found nine Aldi stores in Seine-Saint-Denis inflating reference prices and running "promotions" for an average of 288 days; Aldi's Dammartin buying centre accepted a EUR 350,000 settlement fine.

Crafted by former Paris 3-star Michelin sommelier Eric Bordelet, Sydre Argelette is a biodynamic grand cru cider harvested from 300-year-old trees in southern Normandy on fractured schist bedrock.

Domaine Dupont's unpasteurized Cidre Bouché Brut represents the gold standard of Normandy's AOC Pays d'Auge, crafted from estate-grown bittersweet apples with natural in-bottle effervescence.

Kylian Mbappe scored twice, in the 66th minute and in stoppage time, and Bradley Barcola added a goal as France came from a sluggish first half to beat Senegal 3-1.

Kylian Mbappé scored twice and Ousmane Dembélé once as France beat Iraq 3-0 at Lincoln Financial Field and reached the round of 32 with a group game to spare.

Ousmane Dembélé scored a hat-trick in 32 minutes as France beat a second-string Norway 4-1 in Foxborough and won Group I.

France's Senate cast the final vote on 29 June 2026 to definitively adopt the anti-fast-fashion law targeting Shein and Temu, after the National Assembly's own final vote on 24 June and a joint committee compromise reached on 17 June. The law introduces a rising eco-penalty on ultra-fast-fashion garments, from €5 today to €10 by 2030, capped at 50% of the pre-tax price.

Kylian Mbappe scored twice and Bradley Barcola once as France cruised past Sweden, with Mbappe tying Messi for the tournament lead.

In 39C heat in Philadelphia, Kylian Mbappe converted a VAR-awarded penalty in the 70th minute to break down a deep-lying Paraguay and send France to a quarter-final with Morocco.

Kylian Mbappé missed a penalty, then scored his eighth goal of the tournament and set up Ousmane Dembélé as France beat Morocco 2-0 before 63,811 in Foxborough. It was the last of the seven 2026 World Cup matches at Gillette Stadium, played as Boston Stadium.

Mikel Oyarzabal converted a penalty and Pedro Porro added a second as Spain beat France to reach the World Cup final.

Bukayo Saka scored a hat-trick and England led 4-0 at half-time before holding off France in a ten-goal bronze-final thriller, with Mbappe scoring twice.

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.

496 MW generating capacity; About EUR 2.7 billion published project cost. Under construction.

The court reinstated the prosecution's microplastics analyses that Nancy's criminal court had thrown out in March, sending the case over 473,000 m³ of waste dumped near Vittel and Contrexéville back for a full new trial.

Haitai's limited Butter Ring uses France's Échiré butter at 7.4% content, double the original, with only 500,000 cases over three months.

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.

Five candidates, among them Raphaël Glucksmann, Olivier Faure and Ségolène Royal, compete in the first round of the centre-left primary on 9-10 October 2026, online and at about 1,000 tablet booths. A second round on 16-17 October names the candidate for the 2027 presidential election.

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.

Beaujeu's five-day Sarmentelles festival, 18-22 November 2026, taps the new Beaujolais at midnight ahead of the 19 November Beaujolais Nouveau release.

Santé publique France's enhanced surveillance of chikungunya, dengue, Zika and West Nile normally closes on 30 November; as of 21 September 2026 it counted 13 chikungunya episodes with 90 locally acquired cases, plus 4 dengue episodes with 6 cases.

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.

The Paris classic car show Rétromobile returns to Porte de Versailles from 3 to 7 February 2027, the first big collector-car date of the European calendar.

Emmanuel Macron's second term ends on May 13, 2027; the government has set the first round for Sunday, April 18 and the runoff for May 2. On 20 September 2026 Polymarket's 128-name market had Marine Le Pen at 37%, Edouard Philippe at 25% and Jean-Luc Melenchon at 13%.

The Cannes Film Festival runs 11-22 May 2027 at the Palais des Festivals, its 80th edition.

Equinix’s current expansion directory targets PA14 for Q2 2027. Its annual filing identifies the facility as under construction. The exact parcel and confirmed opening date are unverified.

The Cannes Yachting Festival returns to the Vieux Port and Port Canto in Cannes for six days in September.

The 24-month reinforced health monitoring the Gard prefect imposed on Perrier's Romaine VI and VII boreholes runs out, and Nestlé must then show the spring's original purity and stable mineral content to keep its natural mineral water status.

ITER's 2024 baseline puts the start of research operations in 2034, opening a period of hydrogen and deuterium plasma experiments at the fusion reactor in southern France.