Category: Frenchman

Real Madrid Says Zidane Stepping Down as Team’s Coach

May 27, 2021
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MADRID—Zinedine Zidane is stepping down as Real Madrid coach, again. The club said Thursday the Frenchman is leaving his job, a few days after a season in which Madrid failed to win a title for the first time in more than a decade. The club said Zidane “decided to bring an end to his current…

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Record-Breaking French Centenarian Cyclist Dies Aged 109

May 22, 2021
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PARIS—Frenchman Robert Marchand, who won fame late in life by setting world records for centenarian cyclists, has died at the age of 109, a local official said on Saturday. Marchand died overnight in a retirement home in Mitry-Mory, the mayor of the suburb east of Paris wrote on Facebook. Marchand, an amateur cyclist who was…

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Frenchman Tests Positive for New Coronavirus Variant

December 25, 2020
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PARIS—A Frenchman who recently arrived back in France from London has tested positive for the new variant of the coronavirus, the French Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday. The ministry said that the case—the first in France—had been found in the city of Tours. The man in question arrived from London on Dec….

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First Case of New COVID Variant Found in France as Cases Rise

December 25, 2020
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PARIS—France recorded its first case of the new variant of coronavirus, as the number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 mounted in the country, increasing concerns of a new wave of the virus hitting the euro zone’s second-biggest economy. The French health ministry said a Frenchman who recently arrived back in France from London had…

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