Analysis: Why Parisians have abandoned the Champs-Elysees
Champs-Élysées has emptied of residents and middle-income shops as luxury boutiques proliferate and rents soar, eroding its cultural life and everyday Parisian presence.
PODCAST: France shamed by Sarkozy and is the Champs-Elysees now the worst street in Paris?
Nicolas Sarkozy was convicted of criminal conspiracy and sentenced to five years in prison, potentially becoming France's first postwar leader to be jailed.
