Bittersweet memories, sunshine and tension at D-Day ceremoniesBarack Obama is cheered, Vladimir Putin booed at the international ceremony in OuistrehamSat Jun 07 2014 - 01:00
French fear spillover from Syrian warMembers of ‘poor man’s jihad’ choosing easy targets in EuropeTue Jun 03 2014 - 01:00
Steel-cube Soulages museum honours France’s ‘outrenoir’ painting masterAway from political protest outside, the space pays tribute to the Rodez artistSat May 31 2014 - 01:00
Iran seeks better relations with west, says envoyNormalisation and sanctions relief hang on nuclear negotiations, writes Lara MarloweWed May 28 2014 - 01:00
French political meltdown follows EU electionsMarine Le Pen sounds off as leadership of UMP resign, writes Lara MarloweWed May 28 2014 - 01:00
French results confirm Marine Le Pen as powerful forceFN leader now the most influential French voice on EuropeTue May 27 2014 - 01:00
Extreme right triumphs in French electionNational Front takes 25% of the vote and boasts it is ‘first party of France’Sun May 25 2014 - 21:14
French move on from EU founders to EuroscepticsMisunderstanding about nature of Europe at heart of French disaffectionSat May 17 2014 - 01:00
Le Pen’s party challenging strongly as apathetic electorate switches offFar right could lead European poll in France, writes Lara MarloweFri May 16 2014 - 01:00
France holds its fire in the blame gameFor fear of reviving old hostilities, one French version of responsibility for it has the war ‘appearing as a sort of natural disaster that no one wanted – a catastrophe in which all are victims and none are responsible’Wed May 14 2014 - 01:00
Home truths from trusted source shed light on French stagnationSocialist politician Hubert Védrine’s new book has all of France talkingMon May 12 2014 - 01:00
Omar Sharif: from desert prince to alone in ParisThe actor lived a glamorous life of fame and fun – now, with his fortune and memory fading, his frustration is palpableThu May 08 2014 - 01:00
‘The French have the Great War in their hearts’In France, the first World War is more important than the second, and still resonates 100 years after it began, according to the country’s leading historian of the conflictSat May 03 2014 - 01:00
National Front campaign is vehemently anti-EUEurosceptic party could win one third of French seats in Strasbourg, writes Lara MarloweFri May 02 2014 - 01:00
Almost half of French principals suffer abuse from pupils’ parentsStudy by International Observatory of Violence in Schools shows deterioration since 2005Wed Apr 30 2014 - 01:00
Alleged police gang rape sends shock waves through ParisTwo senior French officers arrested on suspicion of assaulting Canadian touristTue Apr 29 2014 - 01:00
‘We’re lucky to be French,’ say journalists freed in SyriaQuestions over whether France paid ransom for return of four hostagesMon Apr 21 2014 - 01:00
Hollande’s status sinks while Valls does dirty workAs PM begins task of fixing economy, president fades into backgroundSat Apr 19 2014 - 01:00
Radicals slow to make an impressionAn Irishwoman’s Diary about a painting movementThu Apr 17 2014 - 02:00
Ailing Algerian president heads for fourth termAbdelaziz Bouteflika did not appear in public during campaignThu Apr 17 2014 - 01:00
French prime minister heralds ‘new stage’ in Hollande presidencyManuel Valls makes ‘truth’, ‘efficacy’ and ‘confidence’ watchwords of policy addressWed Apr 09 2014 - 01:00
Threat of genocide stalks Central African Republic, Africa’s new heart of darknessInternational community hopes to help CAR but the slow drip of killings continuesMon Apr 07 2014 - 01:00
The Central African Republic, where Emperor Bokassa ruled with violence and greedHungry militiamen eat rats and dream of the army in ruined imperial estateSat Apr 05 2014 - 01:01
Children first victims of Central African Republic’s warUnder-18s are maimed and killed, recruited as soldiers and sex slavesFri Apr 04 2014 - 01:00
Clergy take a moral stand in Central African Republic conflictCatholic churchmen are being praised for showing ‘courage and leadership’ in protecting MuslimsThu Apr 03 2014 - 01:00
Suspicions over French role in CAR run deepCentral Africans are convinced that Paris imposes everything in beleaguered CARWed Apr 02 2014 - 01:00
Militia leaders trade rhetoric in Central African RepublicMuch of state has been laid waste and a fifth of population ethnically cleansedTue Apr 01 2014 - 01:00
Hatred festers as Muslims and Christians suffer in Central African RepublicHungry and damaged factions are the agents of each other’s miseryMon Mar 31 2014 - 01:00
Chadian peacekeepers kill eight in Central African RepublicPeacekeeping commander claims Chadian brigade had been fired onMon Mar 31 2014 - 01:00
Another Rwanda?Twenty years after the Hutu genocide of almost a million Tutsis, the lawless, forgotten Central African Republic is suffering a similar outbreak of violence. And the world is doing little to stop itSat Mar 29 2014 - 01:00
Low-key diplomatic heroism saved Paris from Hitler’s wrathGen Dietrich von Choltitz spared the French capital 70 years agoWed Mar 26 2014 - 01:00
Moving images that freeze timeThe work of US video artist Bill Viola, on show in Paris, has an otherworldly quality that astonishesMon Mar 24 2014 - 01:00
Sarkozy compares French judges to East German StasiFormer French president criticises media, judiciary and government in open letterSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00
John Montague: in Heaney’s shadowPoet John Montague was 10 years older than Seamus Heaney and a good friend to the fellow northerner, whose gifts and good fortune overshadowed him and othersSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00
Sarkozy phone recordings add to suspicions over alleged corruptionWire taps include former president and his lawyer rehearsing ‘fake’ conversationThu Mar 20 2014 - 01:00
Tánaiste brings Franco-Irish relations to 'new register'Irish diplomats hope Paris meetings will become tradition, comparable to Taoiseach’s Oval Office visit to WashingtonSat Mar 15 2014 - 01:01
Ukraine and Syria dominate Gilmore’s French tripForeign minister says he and French counterpart Laurent Fabius share ‘deep preoccupation’ with CrimeaFri Mar 14 2014 - 01:00
Tánaiste breaks the ice at French frozen food summitEamon Gilmore plays the role of economic diplomat while visiting ParisFri Mar 14 2014 - 01:00
Wire taps backfire on socialist governmentFrench prime minister admits he knew Sarkozy’s phone was tappedThu Mar 13 2014 - 01:00
History avenges France’s famous outcast empress Josephine de BeauharnaisAn exhibition in Paris celebrates the woman Napoleon divorced because she could not bear childrenWed Mar 12 2014 - 01:00
Court retains use of Sarkozy’s datebooksFormer president had hoped to bar evidence in cases against himWed Mar 12 2014 - 01:00
Sarkozy phone tapped in inquiry into suspected Gadafy linkPhones of former French president, his lawyer and two former ministers tappedSat Mar 08 2014 - 06:42
Presidential mistresses sue ‘Closer’ magazineValerie Trierweiler is awarded €12,000 while verdict in Julie Gayet case is awaitedFri Mar 07 2014 - 01:00
‘Sarko leaks’ scandal embarrasses French right prior to municipal electionsRecordings of former president made secretly by adviser denounced as ‘a kind of rape’Thu Mar 06 2014 - 01:00
French conservative leader denies impoverishing party to enrich his friendsTwo of Jean-Francois Copé’s closest aides allegedly raked in millions organising rallies for Sarkozy campaignSat Mar 01 2014 - 01:00
Jacques Demy rides a new wave of interest all the way to CorkThe director is enjoying a comeback as an icon of French New Wave cinema, having fallen out of fashion by the time of his death in 1990Fri Feb 28 2014 - 01:00
French entertainment workers protest at move to cut welfare regimeA special welfare arrangement stretching back to 1936 is under threatFri Feb 28 2014 - 01:00
New evidence in case of French billionaire accused of vote-buyingSenator Serge Dassault believed to have given away €7mThu Feb 27 2014 - 01:00
