Franois Hollande, Europe’s chief critic of one-size-fits-all austerity measures, is facing the headache of inescapable belt-tightening at home.
Detectives investigating alleged illegal campaign-financing by L’Oreal heir Liliane Bettencourt, have raided the former French president’s mansion.
Reading habits were back on the political agenda in France this week when Hollande’s government, vowing to protect the printed word.
A woman confronting daunting challenges wonders how to spend more time with her family. Angelique Chrisafis reports.
Leading France’s Front National to its best first-round result in her first presidential campaign, Marine Le Pen counts herself as the big winner.
Despite an often fawning portrayal in the Western media, they were the Lady Macbeths.
The deaths in Syria of journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik and scores more civilians, have prompted renewed calls for an end to the Assad regime.
Police raids mar the luxurious haven of the super-rich leaders and their families.
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/ 27 January 2012
Francois Hollande close to becoming France’s first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand.
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/ 2 December 2011
Paris’s most talked-about exhibition of the season opened with a sense of shock and soul-searching at the exhibiting of people from European colonies.