Two brothers in impoverished Cantal steal money from the banks with the assistance of the locals to distribute it amongst the poor. The police are befuddled until Commissaire Viennot takes over.

Legendary Paris rock venue, the Bataclan, has reopened with an emotional gig by the British singer Sting, a year after jihadi gunmen burst in and killed 90 people during a series of terrorist attacks in the French capital. The former Police frontman, 65, appeared on stage to cheers as hundreds of concert-goers including families of the victims and survivors, crowded together struggling to comprehend how gunmen could have burst into the venue – now completely refurbished to cover up its lasting scars, including a new stage and red velvet curtains – and opened fire on music fans in one of the most brutal attacks on French soil since the second world war.

In July 2018, British band Arctic Monkeys revisited their formidable repertoire in twenty songs in the ancient theater of Lyon's Nuits de Fourvière.