Closer defence links planned at summitTHE English occupied the Breton seaport of Saint-Malo throughout the Middle Ages, and President Chirac and the French Prime Minister…Fri Dec 04 1998 - 00:00
Irish chase Lyon share of French businessIt is 7.15 at the Gare de Lyon on a dark and frozen Paris morningFri Dec 04 1998 - 00:00
Cultural insights at `SciencesNiall Lawlor from Tra more, Co Waterford, is enjoying his course at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, better known as…Wed Nov 25 1998 - 00:00
Faithful protest as Le Pen's penalty upheldSupporters of the extreme right-wing National Front (FN) visited party headquarters throughout France last night to collect pots…Wed Nov 18 1998 - 00:00
`Red' Danny gets Green light to contest Euro pollJust when French politics was beginning to look as grey as the onset of winter, the man whom Gen de Gaulle called "the troublemaker…Tue Nov 17 1998 - 00:00
Spectres of Churchill and de Gaulle return as Paris remembersIt was a perfect day for fin de siecle nostalgia, cold and clear, with church bells pealing for the dead and bright leaves falling…Thu Nov 12 1998 - 00:00
Dispute erupts over executed first World War mutineersToday's 80th anniversary of the first World War armistice has triggered a bitter political dispute over the execution by firing…Wed Nov 11 1998 - 00:00
Army Officer is accused of spying for SerbsA French army officer accused of spying for Belgrade has told the French counter-intelligence agency DST how he betrayed NATO…Thu Nov 05 1998 - 00:00
Game, set and MatchWith nerve and arrogance, hype and money, Paris Match has chronicled half a centurySat Oct 31 1998 - 00:00
French take pleasure in seasonal mellownessMore than any other season, autumn has inspired French poets and songwriters with nostalgia, regret and longing for lost love…Wed Oct 28 1998 - 00:00
Recalling the war France wanted to forgetFor 36 years, it was the war France wanted to forgetThu Oct 22 1998 - 01:00
Lycee students continue street protestsSixteen-year-old Lucas sat on the pavement in the Boulevard RaspailWed Oct 21 1998 - 01:00
French stress sovereignty within EMUFrench politicians have used two main arguments to "sell" EMU to the publicMon Oct 19 1998 - 01:00
Main dailies fail to appear in row over `suffocation of free press'At least 25 people were killed in Algeria over the weekend and more than 60 have been murdered this monthMon Oct 19 1998 - 01:00
Jacques Chirac made in France and proud to sell itAbout the time Americans saw the video of President Clinton's testimony regarding Monica Lewinsky, the French public discovered…Fri Oct 16 1998 - 01:00
Rioters mar protests by 500,000 studentsAn estimated 500,000 lycee students descended onto the streets of France yesterday intent on demanding more teachers, smaller…Fri Oct 16 1998 - 01:00
Marriage law debacle set to continueIt began as a discreet Socialist campaign promise, brought up in public only in response to questions, outlined in letters to…Wed Oct 14 1998 - 01:00
Opulent new line brings driverless trains to metroEverybody who is anybody in Paris is invited to a gala dinner tonight in, of all places, a metro stationWed Oct 14 1998 - 01:00
Solana warns `countdown' has startedMr Javier Solana, Secretary-General of NATO, has joined calls for tough action against Serbia to prevent "a humanitarian catastrophe…Thu Oct 08 1998 - 01:00
Le Pen is stripped of political immunityDozens of lawsuits and fines have not diminished the penchant of Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right-wing National…Wed Oct 07 1998 - 01:00
Wining and dining signals warm phase of relationshipWhen Germans talk about having a fine time, they say they are living wie Gott in Frankreich - like God in FranceThu Oct 01 1998 - 01:00
Verdict on surviving French rebel without a cause todayShe sits in the dock in the Paris assize court, small and frail, hunched over between two gendarmesWed Sept 30 1998 - 01:00
Boys' rape of girl (13) highlights rising child crime rateFrench police at the Brigade des Mineurs, which deals with juvenile offenders, had never seen anything like it.Fri Sept 25 1998 - 01:00
Parisians look on car-free day as breath of fresh airOn normal days, the intersection of the Boulevards St Germain and St Michel is the busiest, noisiest and most polluted in Paris…Wed Sept 23 1998 - 01:00
Art experts disagree over the need to give `Mona Lisa' a faceliftThe two Mona Lisas staring out from the front page of the latest issue of Le Journal des Arts sum up the debate raging between…Thu Sept 03 1998 - 01:00
Proud coiffeur keeps faith and flame aliveJacques and Jacqueline, Georges and Frederic were the salvation of television cameramen searching for emotion at the golden flame…Tue Sept 01 1998 - 01:00
Ex-MI6 man says Diana's driver was an agentA former MI6 agent, Mr Richard Tomlinson (35), was yesterday questioned for two hours by Judge Herve Stephan, the French magistrate…Sat Aug 29 1998 - 01:00
Novelist pioneers new genre in revengeMost of us know couples like Catherine and Francois KellyWed Aug 26 1998 - 01:00
Chirac link raised as Juppe is examined in scandalHis 18-year stint as mayor of Paris and the murky finances of his Gaullist party came back to haunt President Jacques Chirac …Wed Aug 26 1998 - 01:00
Iran visit bolsters France's Middle East roleFrance has strengthened its position as Europe's main interlocutor with the Muslim world by sending the French Foreign Minister…Tue Aug 25 1998 - 01:00
Minister will aim to consolidate French-Irish opposition to CAP cutsTo commemorate General Humbert's landing in Mayo 200 years ago, Paris has dispatched a minesweeper and 75 troops - including …Sat Aug 22 1998 - 01:00
Magistrate wages war on growing tide of French financial corruptionShe has been called the most powerful woman in France, the terror of the financial and industrial establishment.Fri Aug 21 1998 - 01:00
France moves to new level in battle against pollution from private carsFrance officially adopted the pastille verte, a green windshield sticker, to combat air pollution yesterday. Henceforward, 7Tue Aug 18 1998 - 01:00
France introduces a tax-cutting budgetWhen the French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, Mr Strauss-Kahn, presented his 1999 budget yesterday , he said…Thu Jul 23 1998 - 01:00
Tough Gaullist wants generosity on immigrants to follow multi-racial team's World Cup victoryJust when the Jospin government thought it could forget about France's messiest issue - illegal immigrants - Mr Charles Pasqua…Thu Jul 23 1998 - 01:00
Assad gets red carpet as France seals new partnershipThe Syrian President, Mr Hafez Al-Assad, strode down the red carpet of the neo-Renaissance reception hall to the tune of baroque…Sat Jul 18 1998 - 01:00
Glory days and nights keep going as football euphoria meets national dayIt was a Bastille Day like no other - as if the country could not stop celebrating its unexpected World Cup victoryWed Jul 15 1998 - 01:00
Ahern meets French prime minister to press CAP caseThe Taoiseach yesterday met the French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, as part of a round of talks on the reform of the EU'…Tue Jul 14 1998 - 01:00
Magazine gives details of remarriage of French murder victim's husbandThe remarriage of Mr Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the widowed husband of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, who was murdered in west Cork…Thu Jul 02 1998 - 01:00
France honours Jordan, MorrisonThe two Irishmen looked out of place in the former bedroom of Napoleon's youngest brother, King Jerome of WestphaliaWed Jul 01 1998 - 01:00
Thousands mourn assassinated singerMatoub Lounes was buried between a fig tree and a cherry tree in the garden of the house where he was born in the mountain village…Mon Jun 29 1998 - 01:00
Le Grand Stade fails to impress viewed from the slums of BelairThe Belair quarter of Saint-Denis looks a lot like North Africa - bars on windows, plywood over broken panes of glass, laundry…Wed Jun 24 1998 - 01:00
Iran and US use football to score diplomatic goalsIt wasn't by chance that President Clinton and the US Secretary of State, Ms Madeleine Albright, made speeches friendly to Iran…Tue Jun 23 1998 - 01:00
Hooligans' lethal tactics alarm policeAs a French gendarme hovered between life and death in a Lille hospital yesterday, French and German leaders and football federation…Tue Jun 23 1998 - 01:00
Chateau puts on sober face to match Iran's footballersIn living memory, the Haute-Loire town of Yssingeaux, population 6,700, has not seen such a commotionFri Jun 12 1998 - 01:00
Airline beats pilots one-nil - with the help of competitorsThe first match of the World Cup was over before the Brazilian and Scottish football teams set foot in the stadium last night…Thu Jun 11 1998 - 01:00
Own-goal strike costs state airline £8,000 a minuteIt was the first inkling I had that France's temperamental "social climate" was changingWed Jun 10 1998 - 01:00
France in turmoil as strike by pilots intensifies World Cup `madness'Twenty-four hours before the World Cup is to begin here, chaos in the French transport sector, a strike by medical interns, and…Tue Jun 09 1998 - 01:00
Crash witnesses confrontedHad she been an ordinary person, the files on Princess Diana's fatal car crash would long ago have been consigned to police archives…Fri Jun 05 1998 - 01:00
France is back, says Chirac in regional power playThe Lebanese Prime Minister, Mr Rafic Hariri, fought his way through the forest of acute and grave accents, carefully enunciating…Mon Jun 01 1998 - 01:00
