Overview
- Nathalie Baye’s public funeral mass takes place Friday at Paris’s Saint‑Sulpice, followed by a private burial, after AFP confirmed she died from dementia with Lewy bodies, a disease that blends Alzheimer’s‑like memory loss with Parkinson’s‑type motor symptoms.
- A separate service for actor Nadia Farès is set for Friday afternoon at Saint‑Jean‑de‑Montmartre, as police say their inquiry into her April 17 death after a pool incident has found no infraction so far.
- Emmanuel Macron is in Athens to deepen Franco‑Greek cooperation on defense, with talks centered on renewing a 2021 strategic partnership that underpins Greece’s purchases of Rafale fighter jets and Belharra frigates.
- Nice’s new municipal team is rolling out property‑tax relief aimed at reversing last year’s increases, including an about 20% cut to the land tax that city leaders say would return hundreds of euros to many owners.
- The Vénus d’Arles, usually displayed at the Louvre, is being shown in Arles as part of a major exhibition with dozens of Louvre loans, a symbolic homecoming for a Roman statue long tied to the city’s identity.