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Brigitte Macron at the Elysée Palace in Paris, on October 4, 2024. BENOIT TESSIER / EPISODE Four men will appear in court next year in…

Newly appointed Prime Minister Francois Bayrou walks in Paris, France, December 13, 2024. STEPHANIE LECOCQ / REUTERS French President Emmanuel Macron appointed François Bayrou as…

It was a fleeting moment. A rare sign of empathy. On January 11, 2015, after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdoa teacher from the northern…

François Bayrou arrives at the Elysée Palace in Paris on August 23, 2024. LAFARGUE RAPHAEL/ABACA In 2015, Nicolas Sarkozy won the prize for political humor…

On the long wooden table reserved for consulting the riches of the Fraternité des Capucins library in the Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris, the in-house archivist…

Pope Francis at a mass at the Stade Velodrome, Marseille, September 23, 2023. VATICAN MEDIA VIA ABACA For the third time, Pope Francis is preparing…

A court in France on Friday, December 13, jailed three rugby players formerly with French side Grenoble for 12 to 14 years over the 2017…

Signage is seen outside the Moody’s Corporation headquarters in Manhattan, New York on November 12, 2021. ANDREW KELLY / REUTERS Ratings agency Moody’s downgraded France’s…

French President Emmanuel Macron was expected Thursday to name a new prime minister a week after MPs toppled the government, shortening a visit to…

Along with an institution dedicated to the French language, which opened its doors in Villers-Cotterêts, Picardy, in 2023, it was to be the other major…

French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister on Friday morning, his office said on Thursday, December 12, as pressure mounted to fill…

French luxury brand Chanel on Thursday named former Bottega Veneta creative boss Matthieu Blazy as its new artistic director, one of the biggest jobs in…

Feminist megaphone Bretonne by birth, Parisian by adoption, Lauriane Nicol founded the online media outlet Lesbien Raisonnable in 2017. First in the form of a…

  “This hearing must remind us of the forbidden, who was the adult, who was the child, it must set the world straight.” It was…

“Paquita,” by Pierre Lacotte, at the Opéra Bastille, December 2, 2024. MARIA-HELENA BUCKLEY/ONP Christmas celebrations at the Opéra National de Paris promised to be flamboyant.…

US President-elect Donald Trump defended his choice of Charles Kushner for US ambassador to France, describing him as a “family member” and a “very successful man” in an interview released on Wednesday, December 11.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged the release of protesters “arbitrarily” arrested in a crackdown on pro-EU demonstrations in Georgia, in telephone talks with the billionaire former premier Bidzina Ivanishvili, the Elysée said.

  The embezzlement trial threatening Marine Le Pen with a ban from running for public office is not deterring her far-right Rassemblement National (RN) from…

Béatrice Zavarro was sworn in in 1996 and still wears the same dress, doing what she can to mend her worn-in collar or patched fabric…

France’s largest internet operator Orange was, on Tuesday, December 10, slapped with a €50 million ($53 million) fine for sending unsolicited adverts resembling emails to…

An Argentine court, on Tuesday, December 10, dismissed rape charges against two French international rugby players accused of assaulting a woman after a match in the country in July. A judge in Mendoza dismissed the case on the advice of the prosecution, which called for the charges to be dropped over inconsistencies in the woman’s version of events.

French President Emmanuel Macron aims to name a new prime minister for France “within 48 hours,” sources close to him Tuesday, December 10, told Agence France-Presse.

A French prosecutor demanded the filmmaker Christophe Ruggia be put under house arrest for two years over sexually assaulting an actor when she was a…

A French filmmaker accused of sexually assaulting actor Adèle Haenel when she was 12 went on trial in Paris on Monday, December 9, five years…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, December 9, called cross-party talks aimed at “forming or making possible a government of national interest” after the ouster…