France: Images of the Week

: 06 Apr 2013, Paris, France — Guests wearing costumes and ball gowns pose for photographs with French fashion designer Martin d’Autry (4-L) during the Imperial Ball in the Opera Ballroom of The Grand Hotel in Paris, France, 06 April 2013. The annual ball is organized by French charity ‘Les Oeuvres des Saints Anges’ (lit: Work of the Holy Angels) and its President, Baroness de Saint-Didier. EPA/YOAN VALAT PLEASE REFER TO ADVISORY NOTICE epa03657488 FOR FULL FEATURE TEXT — Image by © YOAN VALAT/epa/Corbis

: 09 Apr 2013, Marseilles, France — Marseille, France. 9th April 2013 — C as a couch. — Capital letters is a new exhibition dealing with design and the relation to capital letters. It is held in the Maison des Artisan-ant and will show there for a month. — Image by © amit mendelsohn/Demotix/Corbis

: 11 Apr 2013, Paris, France — epa03657703 Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico speaks to media after meeting with French President Francois Hollande (unseen) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, 11 April 2013. EPA/IAN LANGSDON — Image by © IAN LANGSDON/epa/Corbis

: 05 Apr 2011, Paris, France — epa03658009 (FILES) A file picture dated 05 April 2011 shows the Chief Rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim attending the UMP party’s debate on secularism in Paris, France. He resigned 11 April 2013 after admitting to plagiarizing texts in several books and exaggerating his academic credentials, local media reported. Bernheim, who was elected grand rabbi in 2008, asked the Central Consistory of the Jews of France to relieve him of his functions, BFM television, L’Express news magazine and other media reported. The religious leader of France’s 600,000-strong Jewish community had been under pressure to step down after admitting to several cases of copying the works of others and for perpetuating the belief that he was a certified philosophy professor – a rank he never obtained. EPA/IAN LANGSDON — Image by © IAN LANGSDON/epa/Corbis

: 26 Mar 2013, Paris, France — 26th March 2013 – FIFA 2014 World Cup Qualifier – Group I – France v Spain – Franck Ribery of France – Photo: Marc Atkins / Offside. — Image by © Marc Atkins/OFFSIDE/Corbis

: 12 Apr 2013, Paris, France — epa03659427 General view of the French Ministry for Economy and Finance, in Bercy, Paris, France, 12 April 2013. Reports state that the French Government is facing an alleged tax scandal after France’s ex-Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac has been charged with alleged fraud over a secret Swiss bank account, and French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici is charged by opposition leaders for allegedly having tried to hide this information. EPA/YOAN VALAT — Image by © YOAN VALAT/epa/Corbis

: 23 Mar 2013, Paris, France — Raymond Domenech Photographed in PARIS — Image by © Eric Fougere/VIP Images/Corbis

: 16 Mar 2013, Paris, France — Director Gaspar Noe Photographed in PARIS — Image by © Eric Fougere/VIP Images/Corbis

: 12 Apr 2013, Paris, France — Paris, France. 12th April 2013 — The President of the Republic of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, organizes a meeting to promote his latest book, titled The invention of democracy. — Tunisian president’s visit to Paris to promotion his new book was very eventful. Tunisian youth events took place before the Institut du Monde Arabe and Femen disrupted the meeting. — Image by © Emir Ben Ayed/Demotix/Corbis

: 12 Apr 2013, Marseilles, France — Marseille, France. 12th April 2013 — Sea camel. — Time to swap the animals in the funny zoo in Marseilles’ renewed old port, this superb attraction for the tourists and locals is still attractive but with different animals. — Image by © amit mendelsohn/Demotix/Corbis

: 12 Apr 2013, Marseilles, France — Marseille, France. 12th April 2013 — The weird zebra. — Time to swap the animals in the funny zoo in Marseilles’ renewed old port, this superb attraction for the tourists and locals is still attractive but with different animals. — Image by © amit mendelsohn/Demotix/Corbis

: 12 Apr 2013, Marseilles, France — Marseille, France. 12th April 2013 — Gnu from one side. — Time to swap the animals in the funny zoo in Marseilles’ renewed old port, this superb attraction for the tourists and locals is still attractive but with different animals. — Image by © amit mendelsohn/Demotix/Corbis

: 12 Apr 2013, Marseilles, France — Marseille, France. 12th April 2013 — Hippopotamus. — Time to swap the animals in the funny zoo in Marseilles’ renewed old port, this superb attraction for the tourists and locals is still attractive but with different animals. — Image by © amit mendelsohn/Demotix/Corbis

: 12 Apr 2013, Marseilles, France — Marseille, France. 12th April 2013 — Deer. — Time to swap the animals in the funny zoo in Marseilles’ renewed old port, this superb attraction for the tourists and locals is still attractive but with different animals. — Image by © amit mendelsohn/Demotix/Corbis

: 12 Apr 2013, Marseilles, France — Marseille, France. 12th April 2013 — And its other side. — Time to swap the animals in the funny zoo in Marseilles’ renewed old port, this superb attraction for the tourists and locals is still attractive but with different animals. — Image by © amit mendelsohn/Demotix/Corbis

: 14 Apr 2013, Paris, France — Gwyneth Paltrow poses during ‘Iron Man 3’ Premiere at Le Grand Rex Cinema, in Paris. — Image by © Stephane Cardinale/People Avenue/Corbis

: 12 Apr 2013, Paris, France — A Paris court ruled today that the auction sale of ancient Native American Hopi sacred masks can go ahead in the Paris Drouot auction house Néret-Minet despite protests to halt the sale by such persons as the U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin and actor Robert Redford. The Hopis who number 18,000 are from Arizona consider the Katsinam (masks) as sacred and those outsiders who buy them as committing sacrilege. In total 70 masks were auctioned with sales totalling over 900,000 euros. Photo John van Hasselt — Image by © John Van Hasselt/Corbis

: 14 Apr 2013, Paris, France — Paris, France. 14th April 2013 — LGBT Group, Collective Yes, Yes, Yes (Oui, Oui, Oui) Happening, stage a mock Same Sex Marriage Ceremony at the Paris CIty Hall in the 18th district, In support of the new Marriage For All Law. A lesbian couple kisses. — The fight for access to Marriage for all doesn’t end in France. Groups against the Law and for the law continue to hold separate happenings and protests in the streets. A symbolic Gay Marriage was held by a lesbian couple. — Image by © Tom Craig/Demotix/Corbis

: 15 Apr 2013, Paris, France — Terence Stamp attends Song for Marion Premiere, in Paris. — Image by © Stephane Cardinale/People Avenue/Corbis

: 11 Apr 2013, Montpellier, France — Montpellier, France. 11th April 2013 — About two thousands people attended a meeting against financial politics, with Jean Luc Melenchon, former candidate in the presidential election for the Left Front, Clementine Autain, FASE’s member, and Olivier Dartigolles, French Communist Party spo — Far-left Parti de Gauche (PG) party leader Jean-Luc Melenchon and far-left activist Clementine Autain meet employees of Sanofi pharmaceutical during a rally to protest against the restructuring of the group in Montpellier, and organize a meeting. — Image by © Xavier Malafosse/Demotix/Corbis

: 15 Apr 2013, Paris, France — Paris, France. 15th April 2013 — Inaugural speech of the Solar Central Pajol. From left to right: Anne Hidalgo, Daniel Vaillant, Bertrand Delano. — The Mayor of Paris Delano has participated at the inauguration of the Solar Central Pajol, the biggest central solar cell in Paris, with his 1988 solars panels, covering 3500 square meter and a evaluated production of 410.000 kWh/Year. — Image by © Davide Del Giudice/Demotix/Corbis

: 16 Apr 2013, Paris, France — These are general views of the Hospital Necker – Enfants Malades – the Necker Hospital for Sick Children. According to local reports it is one of the first places to benefit from David Beckham’s salary give-away in Paris. The Brit, amid great fanfare, announced in his first press conference as a Paris St Germain player that he would be giving away all his salary – vaguely to a children’s charity in the city. Now, after some controversy over whether this was a tactic to avoid France’s vicious tax laws, it seems the mystery of the recipient has allegedly been solved. The Le Parisien newspaper has said the hospital along with a second unnamed charity would share a sum totalling above 500,000 euros. The hospital, in the city’s fifteenth district, is said to be among the first children’s hospitals in the world. Pictured: Views of Hopital Necker in Paris — Image by © Splash News/ /Splash News/Corbis

: 17 Apr 2013, Marseilles, France — Marseille, France. 17th April 2013 — A victim to the breast implant scandal shields her face from being photographed outside the court room. The French government urged some 30,000 women to have their PIP implants removed after a spate of ruptures. — In Parc Chanot conference hall has been converted to a court room where the legal proceedings of five managers of the PIP silicon implants manufacturer begins. — Image by © amit mendelsohn/Demotix/Corbis

: 17 Apr 2013, Marseilles, France — Marseille, France. 17th April 2013 — Jean-Claude Mas, 73, spent eight months in detention after his company’s breast implants were revealed to be prone to rupturing. The French government urged some 30,000 women to have their PIP implants removed after a spate of ruptures. — In Parc Chanot conference hall has been converted to a court room where the legal proceedings of five managers of the PIP silicon implants manufacturer begins. — Image by © amit mendelsohn/Demotix/Corbis