A new museum in France reflects Mediterranean civilisation and culture.
Whatever the PR, things are not looking sunny for Franois Hollande. Opinion polls show that normal is not enough.
Sofie Peeters’s account of the everyday sexist insults that women face has triggered debate about the inaction over the universal problem.
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.
The French president was hoping to be hailed at the G20 summit as the saviour of the euro.
Sexism in politics and the country in general is under siege, signifying a welcome change.
The latest sensation in France’s love-hate relationship with its first lady has been whether Carla Bruni is pregnant.
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/ 15 November 2010
Editors say Nicolas Sarkozy is using the French secret service to spy on journalists.
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/ 15 November 2010
Three African leaders and their families are to be investigated in Paris for allegedly embezzling state funds to acquire vast assets in France.
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/ 7 November 2008
The €100-million restoration of the massive 19th-century parlour is Paris’s art event of the year.
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/ 2 February 2008
Jerome Kerviel, an introverted young city trader, lived on a tree-lined street in Neuilly-ÂÂÂÂsur-Seine, a wealthy Paris suburb. Its yuppies live by Nicolas Sarkozy’s mantra "work more to earn more". So when a handsome, well-dressed but solitary young banker rose at dawn every day for work and returned late at night to his one-bedroom flat, neighbours thought his dedication was to be encouraged.
Couscous could now provide the surprise recipe that saves France from cultural decline.