Syrian missile strikes Macron’s most significant military actionFrench president keen to limit risk of retaliation and preserve Russian relationsSun Apr 15 2018 - 19:00
Macron to persevere with rail reform ‘until the end’President defends proposed removal of automatic pay rises and tenure amid train strikesThu Apr 12 2018 - 21:08
Robert Doisneau: the humanist photographer who loved ParisArtist’s work reminds us how much our world has changed and forms a tender memory of a romantic ParisSat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00
Woman who ‘shared’ French supermarket gunman’s life arrestedRedouane Lakdim (25) killed three people in series of terrorist attacks in south of countryFri Mar 23 2018 - 20:44
Unrest over reforms could be Macron’s ‘defining moment’Almost 50,000 marched in Paris as part of civil servant and transport demonstrationsThu Mar 22 2018 - 18:55
Nicolas Sarkozy formally placed under investigation in Libya financing scandalFormer France president ‘mis en examen’ after release following two days in custodyWed Mar 21 2018 - 18:00
Nicholas Sarkozy in police custody over campaign fundingFormer French president questioned about allegations Libya funded 2007 campaignTue Mar 20 2018 - 09:00
Repeal campaigners will not accept a No vote, says MinisterRegina Doherty says her previous opposition to legalisation of abortion ‘born out of ignorance’Sat Mar 17 2018 - 01:00
Merkel visits Macron amid slow progress on European ‘road map’French and German leaders show solidarity in condemning ‘toxic nerve gas’ attack in UKFri Mar 16 2018 - 20:57
Regina Doherty eyes French labour reforms on visit to Paris‘If we do nothing on the provision of pensions, they are not going to be able to be paid,’ Minister saysFri Mar 16 2018 - 15:55
Eva Illouz: Sex, power and the behaviour of men‘Die Zeit’ newspaper listed her as one of 12 people ‘most likely to shape the thought of tomorrow’Wed Mar 14 2018 - 05:00
Front National name change adds to Marine Le Pen’s woesRechristening of party as Rassemblement National deemed ‘political assassination’Tue Mar 13 2018 - 01:00
Battle over Johnny Hallyday’s will becomes a ‘sordid vaudeville’Paris Letter: Over the past decade, the rock legend’s widow progressively took over his financesTue Mar 13 2018 - 01:00
Le Pen hopes to rally support with party’s name-changeNew name will remove ‘psychological brake’ for voters, Front National leader tells congressSun Mar 11 2018 - 19:00
Emmanuel Macron refuses to recognise Jerusalem as capital of IsraelTrump’s recognition an error France will not repeat, says presidentThu Mar 08 2018 - 16:26
Jean-Marie Le Pen: Self-portrait of a vulgar but at times erudite politicianGrand-daddy of Europe’s extreme right publishes his first memoirs and takes a parting shot at his daughterSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:30
France prepares for union battle amid radical rail reformsSNCF labour group threatens month-long strike as French PM pushes for changeTue Feb 27 2018 - 01:00
Marion Maréchal Le Pen gets warm welcome from US right wingMarine Le Pen’s niece tells US conservatives at CPac: ‘We want our country back’Fri Feb 23 2018 - 15:57
A writer, his ashes and Paris’s delay in giving him a final resting placeParis Letter: After months of political wrangling, Michel Déon is finally to be buried at MontparnasseWed Feb 21 2018 - 01:00
Macron seeks to found ‘progressive, reforming’ EU-wide partyPolitical regrouping required in European Parliament , French president saysSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:01
Sex on the canvas: Picasso’s most erotic year laid bareThe year 1932 saw Picasso at the height of his fame and painting his most explicitly sexual work, fuelled by his torrid affair with his young model, Marie-Thérèse WalterSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
An insider’s view of the Macron administration‘He’s not satisfied with status quo. If you tell him something is impossible, he says it isn’t’Wed Feb 14 2018 - 01:00
Macron offers hospitals and phones to Corsica – but no autonomyTension with island’s nationalists over tax and language at French president’s speechWed Feb 07 2018 - 19:10
Macron navigates Corsica’s ‘painful past’ on visit to islandFrench president adopts hard line against nationalists on anniversary of assassinationTue Feb 06 2018 - 19:23
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam goes on trial in BrusselsOnly surviving member of group that carried out attacks in 2015 refuses to answer questionsMon Feb 05 2018 - 15:05
Four migrants in critical condition after Calais brawlFrench aid charities and police blame each other for clashes in Channel port cityFri Feb 02 2018 - 20:22
Ian Bailey to ‘exhaust all options in Toscan du Plantier case’Solicitor responds as Bailey loses appeal to have homicide charges dropped in FranceFri Feb 02 2018 - 01:00
Inquiry into intelligence failures around French priest’s murderAgency warnings of imminent church attack unheeded ahead of Fr Jacques Hamel’s deathWed Jan 31 2018 - 19:20
French climber rescued on ‘killer mountain’ after being forced to abandon partnerElisabeth Revol was climbing with Kildare-based mountaineer Tomasz MackiewiczTue Jan 30 2018 - 20:12
Call for French minister to resign over former prostitute’s claimSophie Spatz alleges Gérald Darmanin coerced her into sex with promise of letterMon Jan 29 2018 - 21:30
Eir’s next owner is dreaming bigFrench billionaire Xavier Niel, who is poised to buy Eir, on his start-up campus, workplace diversity, Brexit, and digital taxationSat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
Police called over Nutella ‘riots’ in French shops‘People rushed in ... it was an orgy!’: 70 per cent discount sends shoppers into a frenzyFri Jan 26 2018 - 16:40
French court postpones Ian Bailey appeal rulingEnglish journalist is appealing against decision to charge him in France with voluntary homicide of Sophie Toscan du PlantierThu Jan 25 2018 - 15:23
‘Terrorist landlord’ on trial for sheltering Paris attackersMan who lent jihadists flat appears in court in first trial linked to November 2015 killingsWed Jan 24 2018 - 16:30
Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘contingent’ lovers fight over lettersLong after existentialist philosopher’s death, simmering rivalry links protagonistsWed Jan 24 2018 - 01:00
Macron and Merkel issue declaration to reaffirm deeper co-operationFrance and Germany mark treaty anniversary by calling for a ‘prosperous, competitive, more sovereign, unified and democratic Europe’Mon Jan 22 2018 - 20:30
Macron’s European dream on hold as Merkel tends to homeEuro zone reforms delayed by German domestic politics as chancellor visits ParisFri Jan 19 2018 - 20:36
Brigitte Bardot calls harassment accusers ‘hypocritical nobodies’Former film star says lots of women in industry are ‘teases’ who use sex to get rolesThu Jan 18 2018 - 17:03
Macron pledges to prevent another ‘jungle’ in CalaisFrench president addresses each of the players in port town migrant dramaTue Jan 16 2018 - 20:51
Marine Le Pen re-emerges whistling the same old tuneFar-right leader blames sexual harassment on immigrants who ‘do not respect women’Tue Jan 16 2018 - 01:00
Catherine Deneuve and the French #MeToo battleWomen who denounce the ‘puritanical witch-hunt’ are out of touch, say younger criticsSat Jan 13 2018 - 06:00
Macron’s method a pragmatic, calculated approach to autocratsFrench president's China visit again showed his ability to do business and hold his noseSat Jan 13 2018 - 01:00
Young but dissimilar French and Austrian leaders meet in ParisMacron and Kurz emphasise areas of accord rather than disagreementFri Jan 12 2018 - 19:57
Ritz robbery: Jewellery worth millions stolen from hotel in ParisFive men wearing ski masks armed with guns and hatchets smashed the display windowsWed Jan 10 2018 - 21:27
Macron: Tax proposal for US tech giants ‘no threat’ to IrelandFrench president hoping to stop companies booking profits through low-tax countriesMon Jan 08 2018 - 01:00
Macron and Erdogan have a delicate lunch at the ElyséeTurkish president Erdogan an awkward guest for the French presidentFri Jan 05 2018 - 20:43
Three years after Charlie Hebdo, magazine’s staff live in fearSatirical weekly paying €1.5m a year for private security says state protection lackingFri Jan 05 2018 - 01:00
Call for reforms after police brutally attacked in run-down Paris suburbsShocking attack on policewoman in city’s banlieues attracts condemnationTue Jan 02 2018 - 18:45
The disappearing world of French village lifeThe French affection for their little towns is tinged with guilt rooted in neglectTue Jan 02 2018 - 01:04
The anti-Trump: Emmanuel Macron’s winning streak continuesFrance’s pragmatist president is shaking up politics around the globeThu Dec 28 2017 - 03:00
