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The Canal Plus series Versailles will not be followed because viewers in France and England complain about too many sex scenes.

Jean-Marie le Pen remains honorary president of the French populist party Front National. This has been decided by a judge on appeal. The party has rightly withdrawn its membership, but its title is retained, reports the newspaper Le Figaro.

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French writer Anne Golon, known for the historic series Angélique, died in Versailles at the age of 95 on Friday. Her books are translated into thirty languages, worldwide they sold millions of books. Angelique takes place in the seventeenth century. In the end, about thirteen parts have been published.

The French voters return to polls on Sunday for the second time in a short time. The man who is always out of the box is meanwhile president of the republic. The party of Emmanuel Macron, La République and Marche (LREM), stalled at great profit in the second round of parliamentary elections.

Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the receipt of the nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen in Moscow shortly before the French presidential election. It was no attempt to influence, Putin said Monday after talks with the new French president Emmanuel Macron in Versailles.

France and Russia aim for a peaceful meeting in the so-called Normandy talks in the peace process for Ukraine's crisis-plunged Ukraine. In this informal group, Germany and Ukraine are also represented. The new president of France, Emmanuel Macron, announced this after a meeting with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin in Versailles, Paris on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Versailles on Monday afternoon. Putin talks about his work visit with his French colleague Emmanuel Macron. Macron has announced 'a demanding dialogue' with Putin. The Kremlin expects Monday, 'an interesting and honest discussion' between the two leaders, reported French media.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet French leader Emmanuel Macron before the end of the month as part of an unscheduled visit to Paris. That reported Russian media on Monday.

France has arrested a former Syrian diplomat who was wanted for rape in Switzerland in 1997. The man was convicted in absentia in 2001 to thirteen years in prison. He lived in Versailles as a political refugee with a new identity.

The main suspect of a major child abuse case in France has been sentenced to sixteen years in prison. Between 2002 and 2011 abused the now 52-year-old Thierry D. Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Egypt 66 boys.

French President Francois Hollande abandons plans to change the constitution. The change was aimed among others at removing the citizenship of persons convicted of terrorism. Hollande said Wednesday that he stops the debate. He gives up, after it was revealed in his opinion that the French House of Representatives and the Senate, there still would not come out.

The infamous manifesto of German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Mein Kampf, is reissued, provide critical commentary. The South German Institute for Contemporary History (IFZ) uses it to December 31, seventy years after Hitler's death, all copyrights expired for the book.

French President Hollande, the attacks of Islamic State in Paris Friday described as " an act of war." He spoke Saturday after a meeting of the National Security Council at the Elysee Palace.