Your Wednesday clicks:

Cycling: Tour de France hero Fignon dies (The Independent)
French Champagne Makers Try for a Greener Bottle (NYTimes.com)
French teacher ‘suspended for too much Holocaust’ (Expatica France)

Iranian newspaper says French first lady deserves to die (CNN.com)
Lending works of art to France is a risky business, warns curator (Telegraph)
Experimental French exhibition saturates senses with art for a new age (Guardian)
Frenchman convicted of shining laser into cockpits (Expatica France)
France defends Roma expulsions (The Guardian)
French court blocks deportation of Roma (Boston.com)
French Riviera Hijacked By Russian Mafia (newscastmedia)