Today’s links:

France’s sordid housing crisis (BBC)
SocGen plight worsens as second trader questioned on rogue losses (Times)
Lazare Ponticelli, France’s Last Veteran of World War I, Is Dead at 110 (NYT)
French hunter on trial over killing of bear (Reuters)
Don’t mess with the camembert, say French cheese experts (Times)
France mulls lawsuit against Continental over Concorde crash (AFP)
Georges Simenon, the existential hack (Times)
French artist chosen to fill Tate (BBC)
F1 rookie Bourdais keeps reality in check (The Age)