Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s French election defeat is starting to feel like a victory
Far-left party leader relishing the role of arbiter and kingmaker
Far-right presidential candidate Le Pen promises ‘referendum revolution’
If she wins the presidential run-off on April 24th the status of 5.2m foreigners living in France will be threatened
‘Popular primary’ does nothing to mitigate shambles on French left
Poll intended to whittle down number of left and Green candidates in presidential race
Ségolène Royal staging umpteenth comeback in French politics
Politician’s new book takes aim at Macron, former partner Hollande and sexism
Ségolène Royal resists being frozen out with North Pole assignment
Former presidential candidate still keen to use her influence from the Arctic wilderness
French election: A tumultuous campaign leaves Macron poised
How France slowly, but surely, came round to the idea of a Macron presidency
Macron broke French politics – now he must fix it
Centrist has promised to end France’s two-party system designed by de Gaulle
French election is ‘unthinkable, unprecedented’ says pollster
Director of France’s oldest polling company thinks Le Pen will be defeated in run-off
Hollande a long way from French socialism’s early days
The 80th anniversary of the ‘Front populaire’ is an embarrassment to the ruling socialists
Patrick Smyth: French left facing unpalatable choices
‘The tension between the republican, secular state, caricatured as Paris and its elites vs rural France, is very much alive in its politics and daily life’
French energy utility EDF moves to end workers’ 10 weeks’ annual holidays
State-owned utilities offering employees once-off €10,000 to reduce holidays
History avenges France’s famous outcast empress Josephine de Beauharnais
An exhibition in Paris celebrates the woman Napoleon divorced because she could not bear children
Hollande caught between Pantheon and a hard place
The French president’s comment on the need to honour women heroes has created a dilemma
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