A Frenchman miraculously survived an attempt to take his own life on Wednesday when the bullet fired from his gun became lodged in his sinuses. The man then drove himself to the hospital to have it removed.
A French tourist, described as "agitated", has jumped to her death off a moving cross-country train as it passed through a small town in the miswestern US state of Iowa, it was reported this week.
The new owner of an apartment near Paris made an appalling discovery on moving in to his new home when he found the previous proprietor hanged inside, it was revealed on Wednesday. Even more shocking was the fact that the dead man had lain undisturbed for a whole eight years.
Colleagues and politicians have reacted with shock and sadness after a dedicated school teacher in Marseille killed himself on the eve of the new school year. Pierre Jacque left a suicide note containing fierce criticisms of France’s education system.
An 84-year-old woman died on Monday when she and her husband plunged their car into a canal in Paris in what was believed to be a suicide attempt. Her husband was pulled out of the canal alive.
Neighbours have been left shocked after the bodies of an entire family were discovered in a hotel room in the south-western city of Bordeaux on Monday. A man and woman in their 40s were found hanged next to two teenagers lying in a bed.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris was evacuated by police on Tuesday after a man threatened to throw himself off the famous monument. Reports suggest, however, that emergency services personnel have succeeded in apprehending the man.
A British national, suspected of being the mastermind of €1.6 million bank fraud scam in France was found hanged in his cell in a French prison this week.
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was evacuated for the second time in two days on Wednesday when a topless feminist staged a mock suicide in front of the altar the day after far-right historian Dominique Venner shot himself in the church.
Notre Dame cathedral in the heart of Paris had to be evacuated on Tuesday when 78-year-old writer and far-right figure Dominique Venner, a firm opponent of gay marriage, shot himself in the head by the church's altar.
A man in his fifties, with a history of family problems shot himself in the head on Thursday in front of a dozen young children in the hall of a Catholic primary school in Paris.
The doctor for the French version of hit reality TV show "Survivor" killed himself in Cambodia on Monday, saying in a suicide note that the media had "sullied" his name after a contestant in his care died of a heart attack.
A French woman's loyal German Shepherd dog saved her from committing suicide by knocking aside a rifle she tried to fire into her heart, local police said.
A young man from the south of France who announced his intention to commit suicide on his Facebook page was saved after youngsters hundreds of miles away saw his post and alerted authorities.
A teenage pupil at a school in western France and a jobless man in Paris deliberately set themselves on fire on Friday, raising fears of a trend of copycat acts after an unemployed man committed suicide by self-immolation earlier this week.
A French teacher who asked her students to write an essay in which they imagined themselves as a suicidal teenager has been suspended pending an investigation, education officials said Monday.
A couple in their in their 50s have been found dead in the snow at a ski resort in the Savoie region, where they are presumed to have committed suicide,
Parents of an 18 year old who committed suicide after being blackmailed over Facebook are pressing charges against the culprit, despite their identity not yet being known.
A 14-year-old girl who is in a critical condition in hospital after falling from her seventh floor flat apparently jumped because she is being bullied at school in a suburb of Lyon.
A Frenchman committed suicide by throwing himself out of his third-floor apartment window when a bailiff arrived to tell him he was being evicted for not paying his rent, police said Tuesday.
<p><span lang="EN-GB">A French helicopter rescued a girl who climbed up the Eiffel Tower on Monday. This is the second incident at the Parisian landmark in two days. </span></p>
<p>A 30-year-old pregnant woman, and a 54-year-old man, both employees of France Télécom, have killed themselves in the past two weeks.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A third person has jumped from a window in a Paris housing estate where two other people, including a nine-year-old girl, have leapt to their death in the last ten days.</span></p>
