French media consistently prioritized the escalating heatwave throughout the day, extending red vigilance across 16 departments as temperatures reached 40°C, making it the dominant editorial focus. Discussions broadened from immediate impacts like widespread school closures and public health concerns to long-term climate adaptation strategies, economic consequences, and calls for vigilance. Concurrently, news outlets gave significant attention to the renewed condemnation of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in prison in Algeria, analyzing its political implications. Later, President Macron's phone call with Vladimir Poutine, their first since 2022, emerged as a major international story, reportedly covering Ukraine and Iran. Domestically, Prime Minister François Bayrou survived a Socialist-led motion of censure in the evening, maintaining his position.