A tax on the rich proposed by President François Hollande when he campaigned for the presidency may not be quite as draconian as initially feared, according to a new report.
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A man is being held in police custody after confessing to the murder of two female police officers at the weekend.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">New speed cameras which record the average speed of a car over several kilometres appear on French motorways from Wednesday.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A 26-year-old fireman has made a formal complaint about a hazing ritual in which he was forced to parade naked and placed in a "humiliating position."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A 90-year-old pensioner who moved into a retirement home suddenly remembered he had stored five gold bars and a booty of other jewels in his cellar, valued at 200,000 euros ($250,000).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An angry wedding chauffeur took his rage out on the ornate gates of the historic Chateau de Versailles after he was told he could not drive the bride and groom in for some scenic photographs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Just a few hours after the release of the official portrait of France's new president, spoofs have appeared online.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A Parisian jewellery shop proprietor was not in the mood for any nonsense on Tuesday when a robber wielding a Taser gun burst into her upmarket store.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The last remaining manufacturer of the staple of French headwear, the beret, has been saved.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Procedures at two French child care centres are being investigated after a baby was locked inside one while a toddler was able to escape onto a busy road at another.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A restaurant owner in Corsica was shot several times as he lay in a hospital bed, despite being guarded by two police officers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Around 150 people attending a service in a church in the southern city of Carcassonne had to take cover when they were attacked with stones.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The holiday weekend ended in long delays for thousands of train passengers on Monday night.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">France's contestant for the Eurovision song contest has tried to rally her country behind her by reminding French people the contest is huge in Europe and that she's been working hard.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The southern city of Nice is clamping down on weddings that get overly boisterous.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A hotel owner in Brittany had a surprise when he saw an advertisement for his own hotel on the internet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A Paris suburb was the setting for dramatic scenes on Wednesday when a man armed with a gun started firing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An argument at a branch of the fried chicken restaurant KFC became ugly when a member of staff allegedly threw a cup of ice cubes over a customer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A Frenchwoman who caused a security scare on a US-bound flight after she claimed to have been fitted with some kind of device will be sent home without charge, US officials said Wednesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A deserted village in south-western France will go under the hammer on Monday, with a guide price of just 330,000 euros ($423,000).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hundreds of people invaded an unoccupied villa in the south of France in a party which resembled that from the film "Project X".</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A French athlete has run the equivalent of over 19 marathons over the course of six days.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A couple in the southern town of Cannes have been able to escape a string of parking fines by registering a car in the name of their four-year-old son.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A woman in her fifties is being questioned by police after admitting she put sleeping tablets and tranquillisers in drinks she made for her neighbours.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A man who took two flights a month to Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport just to steal the bags of other passengers has been caught by police.</span></p>
