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Jail fortress takes liberties with prisoners, book alleges

The French tricolour flutters over the giant steel gate of La Sante prison

Wed Jan 19 2000 - 00:00

Corsica peace process invoked at trial

Seven Corsican nationalists went on trial in Paris yesterday for attempting to extort four million francs (£480,192) in "protection…

Tue Jan 18 2000 - 00:00

One of the `immortal ones' helps enrich the Louvre

English-speaking journalists are received royally in the former apartments of Napoleon III's equerry, for we are part of Mr Pierre…

Wed Nov 24 1999 - 00:00

Assassination of Islamist leader deals blow to hopes of negotiated settlement in Algeria

The assassination of the moderate Islamist leader, Mr Abdelka der Hachani, in Algiers yesterday represents a serious blow to …

Tue Nov 23 1999 - 00:00

French upbeat on beef despite EU legal move

French officials last night said they were confident that the six-week-old "mad cow war" between France and Britain could be …

Wed Nov 17 1999 - 00:00

La belle Colette: she still inspires fascination, admiration and revulsion

Forty-five years after her death, Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette, known simply as Colette, still inspires fascination, admiration …

Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00

France honours `peace militant'

While the French Minister spoke, it nestled on a gold-edged velvet pillow, waiting for the magical incantation: "John Hume, in…

Thu Nov 11 1999 - 00:00

Palestinians `still knocking at door'

Mr Yasser Arafat looked vulnerable on the stage of the Socialist International Congress

Wed Nov 10 1999 - 00:00

Crossing language's invisible frontier

The inside of John Lalor and Janet Ryan's apartment in Montmartre feels like an Irish cottage, with its painted board floor, …

Wed Nov 10 1999 - 00:00

Desperately Seeking Joan

Three grimy Englishmen with cockney accents and rotten teeth burst into a medieval French cottage

Sat Nov 06 1999 - 00:00

Chirac, Jospin square up for battle

Twin financial scandals involving France's two leading political parties have claimed their second casualty this week - peaceful…

Fri Nov 05 1999 - 00:00

Strauss-Kahn cites sense of responsibility for resignation

For once, the French left and right used almost the same words

Wed Nov 03 1999 - 00:00

Iranian leader calls for a `radical and profound change' in political morality

President Mohammad Khatami likes the United Nations

Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00

Khatami reflects on the role played by man in building human civilisation

It was a deeply symbolic gesture, whose significance was perhaps lost on President Mohammad Khatami's French hosts, and on his…

Fri Oct 29 1999 - 01:00

France bars Iranian exiles as Khatami arrives in Paris

For the first time since the Shah was overthrown in 1979, an Iranian head of state has come to Paris

Thu Oct 28 1999 - 01:00

EU ruling may enable `mad cow war' truce

Tomorrow's decision by the EU's Scientific Steering Committee could mean a ceasefire in the "mad cow war" between France and …

Thu Oct 28 1999 - 01:00

Ben Barka's son to renew quest to find father's body

DID Mehdi Ben Barka's killers put his body on a cargo aircraft at Rouen and dump him into the sea? Or was the Moroccan opposition…

Wed Oct 27 1999 - 01:00

Jiang insulated from French dissent

President Jacques Chirac couldn't have shown his Chinese counterpart a better time

Tue Oct 26 1999 - 01:00

Supreme Court rejects appeal by Papon, now France's most wanted man

As the French lawyer Mr Arno Klarsfeld said: "The government and the justice system are responsible for Papon's escaping

Fri Oct 22 1999 - 01:00

Dumbfounded first lady of Paris defends her record

In her pinstriped black suit and white beads, Mrs Xaviere Tiberi, wife of the Mayor of Paris, looked small and helpless as she…

Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00

Papon still missing on eve of appeal

The 89-year-old former French cabinet minister Maurice Papon, who was last year sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role …

Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00

Liaisons dangereuses

The wife of the mayor of Paris goes to Mass every day and takes her rosary beads when she is questioned by magistrates

Sat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00

Touche Trichet as Banque prepares for bicentennial

With a carefully calculated balance of pride and power projection, sobriety and restraint, Mr Jean-Claude Trichet, the governor…

Thu Oct 14 1999 - 01:00

Sad case of `Sir Alfred' who has tied himself to an airport's apron strings

Mehran Karimi Nasseri takes the 610

Wed Oct 13 1999 - 01:00

Shirts store buttons up for Irish inquiries

Charlie Haughey must have loved shopping at Charvet

Thu Oct 07 1999 - 01:00

France takes to streets in autumn ritual

When Mr Lionel Jospin attended the UN General Assembly two weeks ago, American journalists asked him why French people were always…

Wed Oct 06 1999 - 01:00

Employers in France march streets in protest

Has the conservative French employers' association begun imitating the leftist trade unions it detests? You could be forgiven…

Mon Oct 04 1999 - 01:00

French firm designed plant

The Tokaimura nuclear plant was designed by the French company SGN (Societe Generale des Techniques Nouvelles) and has been operating…

Fri Oct 01 1999 - 01:00

Socialist Jospin's European vision faces new challenges

Who will go down in history as the leader of the European left? With socialists in government in 11 of 15 EU countries and the…

Wed Sept 29 1999 - 01:00

Mitchell in France for UNESCO peace award

It must have been like waiting for Sinn Fein and the Ulster Unionists to agree

Sat Sept 25 1999 - 01:00

Israel rebukes France over Syria

The first official visit to Paris by the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Ehud Barak, was marred by a diplomatic contretemps when Israel…

Fri Sept 24 1999 - 01:00

A great silence

Jean-Simeon Chardin was perhaps the greatest painter of the 18th century

Sat Sept 18 1999 - 01:00

Algerian president tests his policies with a poll

Algeria's 17.5 million voters were called to the polls yesterday for the sixth time in four years.

Fri Sept 17 1999 - 01:00

French hail end of budgetary `spiral of debt'

The French Minister of the Economy and Finance, Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has promised lower taxes, higher growth and more jobs…

Thu Sept 16 1999 - 01:00

Journalist who carries a camera as if it were a pen

In the small, highly competitive world of photo-journalism, 72 year-old Goksin Sipahioglu, founder of one of the world's largest…

Wed Sept 15 1999 - 01:00

TotalFina, Elf Aquitaine agree terms for merger

France's two largest oil companies, TotalFina and Elf Aquitaine, have announced they will merge, creating the world's fourth-…

Tue Sept 14 1999 - 01:00

French economy leaps from economic horror to euphoria

Like President Clinton the French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, came to office at the tail-end of a particularly bad stretch…

Fri Sept 10 1999 - 01:00

Cresson may now face criminal investigation

As the European Parliament began screening 19 new EU commissioners for ethical probity yesterday, Mrs Edith Cresson, the woman…

Tue Aug 31 1999 - 01:00

French retail groups agree to friendly merger

France's two largest retail groups, Carrefour and Promodes, are expected to announce a friendly merger based on an exchange of…

Mon Aug 30 1999 - 01:00

Regulator struggles to end bank row

The fate of two of France's biggest banks, Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and the Societe Generale (SocGen) was to be decided…

Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00

Mitterrand accused of anti-Semitic remark

Was President Francois Mitt errand an anti-Semite? France's Socialist Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, and Mitterrand's illegitimate…

Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00

Aircraft carrier a floating French joke

What takes 12 years to build, is 15 per cent over budget at a cost of Ffr 20 billion (£2

Fri Aug 27 1999 - 01:00

Lead pipes create poisoning risk in French tap water

Hundreds of years from now, scientists analysing the bones of 20th century Parisians may discover that they - like the ancient…

Thu Aug 26 1999 - 01:00

Diana crash report holds Dodi Fayed partly to blame for accident

In a further blow to Mr Mohamed al-Fayed, the Egyptian millionaire whose son was killed in a car accident with Princess Diana…

Wed Aug 25 1999 - 01:00

French farmers stampede against McDonald's beef

Perhaps Ronald McDonald guessed he was symbolising the world's biggest restaurant chain when the first golden arches rose in …

Tue Aug 24 1999 - 01:00

French deny risk to health from contaminated feed

The French government has made no attempt whatsoever to trace meat and bonemeal contaminated by sewage in six French plants as…

Thu Aug 19 1999 - 01:00

Latest killings wake Algeria to grim statistics of president's rule

The gunmen set up their faux barrage (fake checkpoint) at Beni Ounif, on the desert highway parallel to the Moroccan border on…

Wed Aug 18 1999 - 01:00

Inquiry into mixing of sewage with animal food demanded

A French opposition parliamentarian, Mr Jean-Jacques Guillet, has called for a commission of inquiry into the animal feed scandal…

Tue Aug 17 1999 - 01:00

Defiant SocGen chief rules out sale of bank

As French banking authorities begin to consider the fate of the bank he chairs, Mr Daniel Bouton has warned that "the Societe…

Tue Aug 17 1999 - 01:00

BNP secures effective control of Paribas after bitter fighting

Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) has obtained control of the French investment bank Paribas, the French Council for Financial …

Mon Aug 16 1999 - 01:00
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