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White House executive chef Cris Comerford holds dishes during a media preview for the State Dinner with President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. The dinner will include a butter poached Maine lobster, beef with shallot marmalade, American artisanal cheeses, and an orange chiffon cake for desert. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mainers seeing red over Biden serving lobster at state dinner while federal regs threaten lobstermen

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron during a State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden welcomes France’s Emmanuel Macron for first official state visit

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden bows to France’s Macron, admits Democrats’ $740 billion climate law contains flaws

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine in response to a question during a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden: I’ll talk to Putin only if he agrees to end Ukraine war

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her son actor Charlie Hall arrive for the State Dinner with President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Hunter Biden among star-studded guest list for Biden’s first state dinner

By Dave Boyer and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Tunisia's Wahbi Khazri, right, scores his side opening goal during the World Cup group D soccer match between Tunisia and France at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan , Qatar, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

France loses to Tunisia 1-0 but still wins World Cup group

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron review the troops with Col. David Rowland, commander of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, during a State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

European blowback over Biden’s tax-and-climate law shakes up state visit by France’s Macron

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

France's Kylian Mbappe, jokes with teammates during a training session at the Jassim Bin Hamad stadium in Doha, Qatar, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. France will play in the World Cup against Tunisia on Nov. 30. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

France can win WCup group in style, Tunisia simply must win

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron whispers to U.S. President Joe Biden following their dinner at the G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany, June 26, 2022. Macron is heading to Washington for the first state visit of Biden’s presidency—a reviving of diplomatic pageantry that had been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden, Macron ready to talk Ukraine, trade in state visit

By Aamer Madhani and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

France's Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring his sides second goal during the World Cup group D soccer match between France and Denmark, at the Stadium 974 in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Kylian Mbappe scores 2, France reaches knockout stage of World Cup

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

France's Olivier Giroud celebrate after he scored during the World Cup group D soccer match between France and Australia, at the Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Mbappe, Giroud lead defending champion France to decisive win over Australia

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris lifts the trophy after France won 4-2 during the final match between France and Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, July 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) **FILE**

France faces weight of history in bid to retain World Cup

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

Some of the migrants rescued from the sea are seen on board of the humanitarian ship Ocean Viking cruising in the Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. The SOS Mediterranee humanitarian group said the Norwegian-flagged ship is heading toward the French island of Corsica in hopes that France will offer its 234 passengers a safe port, after Italy backed down and allowed migrants from three other rescue ships to disembark on Italian soil. (AP Photo/Vincenzo Circosta)

France grants port to migrant rescue ship amid Italy rift

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in front of people involved in fighting wildfires last summer, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Emmanuel Macron meets firefighters, rescuers, and volunteers who battled brutal summer blazes (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

Marcon welcomes French questions on climate ahead of COP27

Associated Press

A woman lays flowers outside the building where the body of 12-year-old schoolgirl was discovered in a trunk, in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. France has been &quot;profoundly shaken&quot; by the murder of a 12-year-old schoolgirl, whose body was found in a plastic box, dumped in a courtyard of a building in northeastern Paris, the government spokesman Olivier Veran said on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France ‘profoundly shaken’ by schoolgirl’s slaying in Paris

By Sylvie Corbet and Barbara Surk - Associated Press

Tankers line up to refill Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in For-sur-Mer, southern France. French President Emmanuel Macron promised the situation in the country's gas stations will soon be back to "normal" as the government started requisitioning some workers at ExxonMobil's Esso gas stations amid an ongoing strike that is making life difficult for French drivers. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

France starts exporting gas to Germany amid energy crisis

Associated Press

French author Annie Ernaux leaves her home in Cergy-Pontoise, outside Paris, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. 2022's Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to French author Annie Ernaux. The 82-year-old was cited for "the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory," the Nobel committee said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature

By David Keyton, Jill Lawless and Masha MacPherson - Associated Press

FILE - Workers walk to the Lusail Stadium, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums, in Lusail, Qatar, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. Paris has decided not to display the matches of the World Cup in Qatar on giant screens in fan zones amid concerns over rights violations of migrant workers and the environmental impact of the tournament that have led some other French cities to make the same decision. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Paris joins big screen boycott of World Cup games from Qatar

By Jade Deley and Barbara Surk - Associated Press

In this image from video broadcast by RTB state television, coup spokesman Capt. Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho reads a statement in a studio in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, on Friday evening, Sept. 30, 2022. Members of Burkina Faso's army seized control of state television late Friday, declaring that the country's coup leader-turned-president, Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, had been overthrown after only nine months in power. The statement announced that Capt. Ibrahim Traore is the new military leader of Burkina Faso, a volatile West African country that is battling a mounting Islamic insurgency. (RTB via AP)

Protesters attack French Embassy in Burkina Faso after coup

By Sam Mednick and Arsene Kabore - Associated Press

Emmanuel Macron, President of France, addresses the 77th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Italy’s European Union partners are signaling discomfort and vigilance after one of the bloc’s founding members swung far to the political right, raising troubling questions about whether Rome will maintain its commitments to EU principles, laws and ambitions. The French prime minister on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, said that France, along with EU officials, would be watching closely to ensure that basic human rights rights along with access to abortion, are guaranteed in Italy after Giorgia Meloni’s neo-fascist Brother’s of Italy Party topped the vote count in Sunday’s parliamentary election. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Biden to host France’s Macron for first state visit

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times