The living held their hands. They knew they were dead, but they would not let them go.

The French Foreign Ministry said on Friday that there were no Lebanese nationals among the victims of the Nice attack, the National News Agency reported.

“The search operations and the verification of the identity of the victims continue. Until this moment no Lebanese individuals were injured in the aggression,” NNA quoted the French Ministry.

French President Francois Hollande congratulated Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May on her appointment Wednesday and urged her to quickly begin talks on the country's divorce from the EU, the Elysee Palace said.

Amid fears of a fiscal "race to the bottom" French Finance Minister Michel Sapin on Monday slammed British plans to reduce corporation tax as part of plans to keep attracting foreign investment after last month's Brexit vote.

The Eiffel Tower was closed to the public on Monday after clashes between fans and police at the Parisian landmark during the Euro 2016 final, its operator said.

The Eiffel Tower management said the tower could "not be opened in the proper security conditions" after the clashes in which youths set alight rubbish bins, a car and a scooter before being dispersed by police with tear gas and water cannon.

Socialist French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday invoked a constitutional measure to force through contested labor laws, bypassing parliament.

A French inquiry into the terror attacks that rocked Paris in 2015 on Tuesday recommended the fusion of the country's intelligence services after the "global failure" of the country's myriad agencies.

Facebook said Tuesday it was cooperating with French authorities probing the killing of a police commander and his partner in an incident that included a live-streamed video statement on the leading social network.

"We are working closely with the French authorities as they deal with this terrible crime," Facebook said in a statement following Monday's fatal stabbing of 42-year-old police commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his 36-year-old partner Jessica Schneider in a town near Paris.

A defiant French prime minister on Wednesday vowed to stand firm on a disputed set of labor reforms, despite mass protests against them that spiraled into violence.

France's highest administrative court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by five men stripped of their nationality after being convicted for terrorism.

"Due to the nature and seriousness of the terrorist acts committed... the punishment of the stripping of nationality was not disproportionate," said the State Council in its ruling.