https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Florian Philippot, one of the top members of France’s far-right party the National Front, is suing gossip magazine Closer for outing him as gay, demanding €50,000 in damages for the front-page splash of him and his alleged partner. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141218/top-far-right-boss-sues-mag-that-outed-him-as-gay Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:56:00 +0100 top-far-right-boss-sues-mag-that-outed-him-as-gay Gossip magazine Closer has caused controversy again after it made public the homosexuality of a top member of France's far-right National Front party by publishing photos of him with his alleged partner. Politicians and journalists have reacted angrily. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141212/row-after-french-mag-outs-gay-far-right-boss-florian-philippot-front-national Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:09:00 +0100 row-after-french-mag-outs-gay-far-right-boss-florian-philippot-front-national Celebrity magazine Closer was ordered to pay €12,000 ($16,500) to the French president's ex partner Valerie Trierweiler on Thursday over pictures of her in a bikini. On the same day, François Hollande's mistress Julie Gayet brought her own privacy suit against the magazine. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140306/hollandes-ex-wins-privacy-case-over-bikini-snaps Thu, 06 Mar 2014 16:00:00 +0100 hollandes-ex-wins-privacy-case-over-bikini-snaps President François Hollande has visited Valérie Trierweiler, the Elysée said on Friday, almost a week after she was admitted to hospital after news of his alleged affair hit the headlines. On Friday Closer magazine published another exposé on the president's alleged 'affair'. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140117/closer-publishes-more-revelations-of-hollande-affair Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:33:00 +0100 closer-publishes-more-revelations-of-hollande-affair French President François Hollande faced the media pack for the first time on Tuesday since news of his alleged affair with a French actress made headlines around the world. He's a recap of the main points from the press conference. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140114/live-hollande-media-gayet-trieweiler-affair-revelation Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:55:00 +0100 live-hollande-media-gayet-trieweiler-affair-revelation French President François Hollande is under pressure to clarify his relationship to Valérie Trierweiler, who reportedly told a French journalist that she wants her status as the unofficial first lady to be cleared up. Hollande's security chief was also in hot water on Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140113/hollandes-security-detail-missed-threats Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:32:00 +0100 hollandes-security-detail-missed-threats UPDATED: Valérie Trierweiler, the partner of French President François Hollande, has been in hospital since reports he was having an affair with an actress made headlines around the world, it emerged on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140112/trierweiler-in-hospital-after-hollande-affair-reports Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:14:00 +0100 trierweiler-in-hospital-after-hollande-affair-reports On the same day magazine Closer claimed to have revealed an affair between President François Hollande and French actress Julie Gayet, the magazine said it was removing the story from its website at the request of the actress not Hollande himself. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140110/hollande-affair-claims-magazine-to-remove-story-from-web Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:07:00 +0100 hollande-affair-claims-magazine-to-remove-story-from-web Claims from Closer magazine that President François Hollande is having an affair with an actress, will not undermine his flagging presidency, a French political analyst told The Local on Friday, but the revelations are a sign of a changing France he says. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140110/affair-claims-wont-harm-hollandes-presidency Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:50:00 +0100 affair-claims-wont-harm-hollandes-presidency Revelations about French President François Hollande's alleged affair with French actress Julie Gayet hit the headlines in France on Friday. But who is the woman who "the president loves in secret", as Closer magazine has claimed? Here are ten facts about the actress. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140110/francois-hollande-mistress-julie-gayet-10-facts Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:43:00 +0100 francois-hollande-mistress-julie-gayet-10-facts Lawyers for disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a woman named as his new girlfriend sought damages in court Tuesday from two French magazines for publishing "stolen photographs" of them together. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121016/dsk-and-new-girlfriend-go-to-court-over-snatched-shots Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:38:00 +0200 dsk-and-new-girlfriend-go-to-court-over-snatched-shots French magazine Closer on Monday said its editor Laurence Pieau had received death threats for publishing pictures of Prince William's wife Catherine sunbathing topless. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120924/french-editor-sent-death-threats-over-kate-pics Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:40:00 +0200 french-editor-sent-death-threats-over-kate-pics