Emmanuel Macron has filed a legal complaint against a photographer who he says breached his right to privacy by taking holiday snaps of him and his wife in Marseille this week.

The French president has already gone to great lengths to keep the details of his summer holiday private, declining to reveal where he was heading - other than that it would be somewhere in France.

His demand for privacy is in stark contrast to his predecessors Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy. Mr Hollande invited the press to join him on walkabouts in the Cote d’Azur, while Mr Sarkozy headed to New Hampshire in the US to stay in a luxury villa with his family.