End of an era as venerable ‘Herald Tribune’ to be reborn as ‘International New York Times’Change reflects aim to build international presence and bow to digital ageSat Oct 12 2013 - 01:09
Anne Hildalgo says when someone stands for election, Parisians want to know who they areDeputy mayor of Paris says she has a problem with Roma families living in the phone boothsThu Oct 10 2013 - 01:49
Sarkozy cleared of extorting funds from Liliane BettencourtCollapse of case strengthens possibility of political comeback for former French presidentTue Oct 08 2013 - 01:04
Strong National Front showing in French byelection alarms SocialistsFrench left has now lost eight legislative and three cantonal elections in the past yearTue Oct 08 2013 - 01:00
French ministers fight among themselves over RomaInterior minister accused of going ‘beyond what endangers the republican pact’Sat Oct 05 2013 - 01:00
Second Houses – What they do elsewhereFrench senate a regular irritant to presidentsTue Oct 01 2013 - 01:04
French rebuked over treatment of Roma‘Illusory’ to think Roma can be integrated into French life, says minister Manuel VallsThu Sept 26 2013 - 01:00
€18bn budgetary adjustment looms for French government80% of target to come from spending cuts and the remainder from new taxesThu Sept 26 2013 - 01:00
Not goodbye, but au revoirOutgoing French ambassador reflects on her time in IrelandMon Sept 23 2013 - 01:00
Gangland murders in Marseille, ‘the city that eats its children’, prompt crisis talksGangland killings sit uneasily with city’s status as European Capital of CultureSat Sept 07 2013 - 01:00
French left advocates action on Syria as right looks to UNPrime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault says passivity is ‘not an option against barbarity’Thu Sept 05 2013 - 01:00
Hollande considers parliamentary vote on military intervention in SyriaDiscord over Syria is provoking a constitutional crisis in FranceWed Sept 04 2013 - 01:00
Seamus Heaney’s last interview covered Homer, Virgil and DanteHeaney’s final formal interview took place in Paris last JuneTue Sept 03 2013 - 01:01
Hollande left waiting for US final decisionFrance was Obama’s only European ally in military action but has been left in limboTue Sept 03 2013 - 01:01
Seeing the light: what Henri Matisse discovered in ProvenceBorn in cool northern France, the artist decided to call Nice home after realising the difference its light could make to his work. Now the city is celebrating himSat Aug 31 2013 - 01:00
What kind of financial regulator will Cyril Roux be?The French official becomes financial regulator in OctoberThu Aug 22 2013 - 01:00
Hollande’s cabinet imagines France in 2025France must “choose, not suffer,” President François Hollande told his cabinet during a seminar on “France in 2025” at the Élysée Palace yesterday.Tue Aug 20 2013 - 01:00
‘Devil’s advocate’ Jacques Vergès dies in ParisFrench Lawyer gained notoriety for his defence of war criminals, dictators and terroristsSat Aug 17 2013 - 01:00
France prefers a strange class of socialistPopular interior minister Manuel Valls is somewhere to the right of SarkozyFri Aug 16 2013 - 01:03
Increasing numbers of French young people are emigratingRise in emigration sparks debateFri Aug 09 2013 - 01:00
French judges claim Dominique Strauss-Kahn was ‘king of the party’ at orgiesFormer head of the IMF knew women who attended sex parties were prostitutes, judges sayThu Aug 08 2013 - 01:00
Leaked report revives divisive French debate about headscarvesWearing of Islamic headscarves, yarmulkes and large crosses banned in public schools in 2004Wed Aug 07 2013 - 01:00
Spanish paedophile erroneously pardoned by Moroccan king is rearrestedDaniel Galvan, sentenced to 30 years for rape of 11 childrenTue Aug 06 2013 - 01:00
‘Young people don’t read paper’Newspaper vendors in Paris make so little money they are working for loveSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
Our Gallic cousins are melancholy, morose and depressed. Vive la différence!Would Beckett have spent his life in France if the country had not mirrored his pessimism?Fri Aug 02 2013 - 01:00
Strauss-Kahn to stand trial for ‘aggravated pimping’Former IMF chief had been under investigation over Lille sex partiesSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:31
Polanski’s victim tells her side of storySamantha Geimer’s autobiography to be published in SeptemberSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:03
Mali heads into crucial presidential electionLegitimate poll would free up €3.25bn in aid promised at donor conferenceFri Jul 26 2013 - 01:23
UMP members walk out of fraud Cahuzac inquiryParliamentary commission in crisis after walk-outFri Jul 26 2013 - 01:00
Paris train crash investigation under scrutiny in wake of Santiago derailmentIncident a fortnight ago killed two passengers and four people on platformFri Jul 26 2013 - 01:00
French deputy condemned for for saying ‘Hitler didn’t kill enough’ TravellersMayor faces expulsion from centre-right UDI partyWed Jul 24 2013 - 01:00
Cahuzac’s memory fails him at tax fraud inquiryCommission investigates Hollande administration’s handling of former budget minister’s tax evasionWed Jul 24 2013 - 01:00
Streamlining the system? If only it were that simpleParis letter: to an observer who long felt she was watching bureaucracy sap the lifeblood of France, the ‘choc de simplification’ looks like the best thing goingMon Jul 22 2013 - 01:00
Francophile Bono receives honour from a grateful nationU2 singer made commandeur de l’ordre des arts et des lettres in ParisWed Jul 17 2013 - 01:00
James Joyce’s historic sojourn in Nice recalledBono and Guggi among guests at unveiling of plaqueTue Jul 16 2013 - 01:00
Bastille Day festivities fall flat as Hollande itemises work donePresident promises to fight French pessimismMon Jul 15 2013 - 00:00
At least six dead and 22 injured after train derails near ParisRailway cars fell on their sides, crushing waiting passengers on the platformSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
French nobles give Bastille Day right royal ‘non’France’s 6,000 aristocrats struggle to slow the erosion of their traditionsSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
Yasmina Reza: Drama queenShe is the most successful French playwright of her generation and her work is performed around the world. Lara Marlowe talks to Yasmina Reza, author of ‘Art’ and ‘Carnage’, about writing, working with James Gandolfini, and a rumoured liaison with disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-KahnSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
There’s nothing very convincing about Sarkozy’s retirementFormer French president says again he might have to come back, ‘if I am needed, out of duty’Fri Jul 12 2013 - 06:00
French judges order seizure of substantial Tapie assetsLagarde's status may change from ‘assisted witness’ to being placed under investigationThu Jul 11 2013 - 02:00
Fire causes ‘irreversible’ damage to historic Parisian mansionBlaze destroyed the 17th century Hotel Lambert on the Île Saint-Louis, half a kilometre from Notre Dame cathedralThu Jul 11 2013 - 01:00
Rogue trader Kerviel fails in bid for SocGen sacking inquiryJérôme Kerviel is free pending a second appeal against his 2010 convictionFri Jul 05 2013 - 01:01
Marine Le Pen loses immunity over Muslim ‘occupation’ commentsNational Front leader can now be prosecuted in France for inciting hatredWed Jul 03 2013 - 01:00
French ex-con still ‘coming up from ashes’ at 70Paris letter: Businessman Bernard Tapie says the system is out to humiliate himWed Jul 03 2013 - 01:00
France struggles to take hordes of jobless youth under bloated administrative wing of the stateSchemes to target socially challenged areas with jobs seem to be having limited successMon Jul 01 2013 - 00:00
Disgraced former French minister protects socialist government in hearingJérôme Cahuzac faces commission of inquiry over tax fraud chargesThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Row between Barroso and Paris deterioratesFrance will not take orders from Brussels, says French prime minister Jean-Marc AyraultTue Jun 25 2013 - 22:27
