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"Bonjour Monsieur Monster", is the Mail's greeting for Mr Mugabe.
The Daily Telegraph deplores what it says is the shaming presence of a tyrant in Europe.
According to the Times, the French authorities seemed to be doing all they could to pamper and protect him at his luxury hotel - described by the Guardian as a much chandeliered establishment, and by the Mail as the last word in Gallic opulence.
Attack
The Telegraph says Mr Mugabe chose the hotel because it was convenient for his wife's shopping.
A number of papers manage to carry a picture of Grace Mugabe leaving the hotel for a suspected shopping trip, in spite of a bodyguard's attempt to block the photographers' view with his raincoat.
As for Jacques Chirac, the Sun has printed a special front page for an edition being distributed in Paris.
In an article written in French, the paper attacks his stance on Iraq.
It describes him as a worm, and to emphasise the point, it prints a picture of one - with Mr Chirac's head.
In the Mail, the journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil, accuses Mr Chirac of becoming a pimp to some of the world's worst regimes.
Another man in the sights of some of the papers is Mr Justice Collins - he's the High Court judge who ruled that the law denying some asylum seekers the right to claim benefits was illegal.
'Robust'
The judgment is the main story for the Telegraph, Mail and Express - which describes Mr Justice Collins as the asylum seeker's friend.
The Telegraph points out that whenever the government has been at the wrong end of an asylum ruling in recent years, he has often been the villain of the piece.
This particular judge, it says, is considered a serial offender in Whitehall.
The Guardian, however, describes the ruling as a robust judgment and urges the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, to stop denouncing judges and their constitutional role.
Amid the extensive reporting of the latest developments in the Iraq crisis, several articles consider the plans being drawn up by Washington for the future of Iraq after a war.
The Financial Times warns that bringing down Saddam Hussein will be the easy part.
Music without 'fizz'
Getting a grip on post-Saddam Iraq - an ethnic, religious, tribal and political patchwork - makes the Balkans look relatively straightforward, it says.
In the Telegraph, the head of the opposition Iraqi National Congress, Ahmad Chalabi, rejects the idea of a foreign military government or a United Nations administration for Iraq.
There must be no gap in the sovereignty over Iraq by Iraqis, he declares.
As the British music industry gears up for its big party night of the year - the Brit awards - the Independent asks why, in its words, the fizz is going out of British pop.
It quotes an un-named senior executive as saying: "This is as bad as I've ever seen it.
"Sales are slipping, internet piracy is rising, and people are finding other things to spend their money on, such as DVDs and computer games."
Pop goes the drink
Offering a possible answer, the paper suggests that the home-grown market has shown an inability to produce acts that captivate the public imagination.
It seems spectators at Cricket World Cup matches have been falling foul of what the Guardian calls South Africa's draconian sponsorship rules.
Under legislation passed last year, the paper explains, any spectator carrying a product made by a competitor of one of the main sponsors is liable to have it confiscated.
But with Pepsi one of the four main sponsors, the main problem appears to be with fans carrying bottles of Coke.
According to the paper, stewards nicknamed by crowds as the Coke police have been removing the drink from spectators' cooler bags to protect Pepsi's investment.
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