"Laughing So France has managed to get through an entire week without losing any of its national heritage, a government collapsing, or an ex-leader going to jail. Outstanding, mes amis. Formidable. Yes OK, perhaps it's a little too easy to joke about France right now - but I actually don't think foreigners are laughing at France as much as the French fear it is. READ ALSO: OPINION: Relax France, the world isn't laughing at you (not much, anyway)"
"Despite the chaos and uncertainty over the Budget or the future of the government, the parliament is continuing to function in some ways, with the bill to enshrine the notion of consent into France's rape laws now approved by the Senate and therefore set to pass into law. Thursday saw another parliamentary milestone - the first time that a bill proposed by the far-right Rassemblement National was passed in the Assemblee nationale."
France experienced a relatively calm week without major national disasters, government collapse, or imprisonment of an ex-leader. Public anxiety about international ridicule persists, illustrated by an anecdote about an Austrian dressing her son as 'the Louvre heist' for Halloween. The Senate approved a bill to enshrine consent into rape laws, paving the way for it to become law. The Assemblée nationale passed, for the first time, a bill proposed by the far-right Rassemblement National. That bill seeks to 'condemn' the 1968 France-Algeria agreement that normalised relations after colonisation and Algeria's brutal war of independence.
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