Place de la République camp dismantled as National Assembly passes ‘global security’ law

World updates: Further restrictions in Paris; record infections in Germany and Ukraine

The ‘branded Parisian’ needs to be reconstructed as ‘it’s been a long time since she’s looked like Brigitte Bardot’

City moves to ‘maximum alert’, with ban on student parties but restaurants to stay open

Municipal elections can be a poor guide to national performance

Europe Écologie Les Verts seize town halls in Besançon, Bordeaux, Lyon and Strasbourg

Sunday’s elections will be chastening after a disastrous campaign by president’s LREM

Paris, Brussels and Milan all experience significant rises in nitrogen dioxide, data shows

Covid-19 is recalibrating urban living but capitals endure as exciting laboratories

Germany warns against nationalism, as UK and France thank war-time generation

Confidence of Cédric Villani, the race’s most colourful candidate, suddenly doesn’t look misplaced

Benjamin Griveaux says he would plant ‘in neighbourhoods where kids don’t have trees’

Paris Letter: The city has budgeted €1.5m annually since 2017 for the war on rats

Despite devastation of Gothic cathedral, many chalices, paintings and statues saved

Archbishop Luigi Ventura suspected of molesting male staffer during mayor’s address

Online platform hits back at citywide clampdown in French capital

Dunkirk is latest European city to offer a free-fare system. Could we follow suit?

Barricade of burning rubbish bins built as ‘yellow vests’ demonstrate

Carlos Ghosn says buyers are afraid of being ‘trapped’ with cars they cannot sell

Feminist campaigners label the new street facilities sexist and discriminatory

Macron tells hero Mamoudou Gassama (22) that Paris fire department will hire him

Officials at odds over fate of 2,500 sleeping rough in rat-infested camps

Paris Letter: After months of political wrangling, Michel Déon is finally to be buried at Montparnasse

‘I don’t know what I can do to make it less sexually explicit,’ says Dutch artist

French president says he will not interfere in Spanish internal affairs

Incident with leading conservative Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet under investigation

Mayors of Paris and Nice among first to express sympathy

Newly elected president says he will restore France’s self-confidence and embrace future

Former leader Pedro Sánchez spooks party veterans with radical comeback

Jaqueline Sauvage was found guilty in 2014 of shooting her husband three times in the back

Commemorations at Stade de France, Bataclan and cafes where 130 people were killed

France is the world’s No 1 destination for naturists, deputy mayor says

Mayor Anne Hidalgo says Paris refugee camp is the first in a dense urban zone in Europe

Lara Marlowe reports from Paris, while Denis Staunton reflects on Brexit latest

Republic and North groups given medals for ‘exemplary behaviour’ during Euro 2016

‘You can be proud, because the Euros aren’t over yet, and you’ve already won’

Incident occurred two days after Ireland drew with Sweden in its opening game

Fans from both sides of Border showed ‘exemplary attitude’ during Euro 2016

#IRL twitter campaign takes off: Paris mayor says monument will honour Orlando victims

French prime minister tells Euro 2016 travellers to ‘come by plane, by car, by train’