Kim Willsher

Dramatic life of the Little Sparrow, nation’s most famous singer, is remembered at the national library in Paris in year she would have turned 100

Sigolène Vinson survived the attack on the magazine and has given a chilling account of how one of the terrorist gunmen spared her life.

The French president is keeping mum on a matter he says concerns personal freedoms, refusing to answer questions about his personal life.

As thunderstorms raged in the area last week, the symbolism was potent: the picket-line bonfire hissed and went out.

If Francois Hollande becomes president of France, it will be a job he has worked for and hankered after for most of his adult life.

French social media users have been warned not to "bugger" the country’s election by talking about exit poll results before voting is officially over.

Damaging new claims have emerged about the funding of Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign and his links with slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Capital trials new electric car-sharing scheme — and hopes to have 5 000 vehicles on the roads by 2013.

An earthquake, hurricanes, cholera, political crises — it seemed Haiti’s woes could not get worse.

Austerity in Europe is in stark contrast to the experience of footballers in South Africa, say politicians.

Want to save the planet? Wear your jeans two days a week, wash them every fifth day, and let them dry by themselves. Or better still, don’t wash them at all. And don’t even think…

History contends that the ashes of Saint Joan of Arc were gathered up from the pyre on which she was burned alive and tossed into the River Seine. Anxious to avoid creating a…

As a call to arms, few national hymns are as bloody as La Marseillaise. Originally entitled the War Song of the Army of the Rhine, it exhorts citizens of France to take up arms:…

French prosecutors are taking action against the youngest son of the Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, who is alleged to have beaten a pregnant woman during a rampage in a Paris…