France

PARIS, FRANCE (GaeaTimes.com)- French actress Maria Schneider died on Thursday at the age of 58 in her native city of Paris.

LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com) -- According to the famous magazine People, Natalie Portman is currently engaged to a ballet dancer and choreographer named Benjamin Millepied and the couple are expecting their first child soon.

ST TROPEZ - This ultra-chic town in southern France is the playground of the world's rich and famous.

PARIS - Fashionistas breathed a fatigued sigh of relief as the spring-summer 2011 ready-to-wear collections that took them from New York to London to Milan and finally to Paris for nine show-packed days wrapped up Wednesday with an equestrian show at French heritage saddle-maker Hermes that marked the end of designer Jean Paul Gaultier's seven-year tenure there.

PARIS - Punk isn't dead. It's alive, and if not well, at least kicking in Paris, where - after hardcore-steeped shows earlier in the week at Balmain and Balenciaga - Jean Paul Gaultier sent out Saturday kinder, gentler Joan Jetts in spiky wigs and rose-emblazoned jean jackets.