“I’m socialist.” Emmanuel Macron was 36 years old, and had just been appointed as economy minister. In front of an audience of startuppers and business…
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Virtually extinct at the beginning of the 20th century, Europe’s largest rodent is now well established along French waterways. Its presence, which can give rise…
On Wednesday, December 18, the Cour de Cassation, France’s highest court of appeals, upheld the sentence to which former president Nicolas Sarkozy had been condemned…
French President Emmanuel Macron extended his visit to cyclone-devastated Mayotte on Friday, December 19, after angry residents vented exasperation and despair over the scale of…
New French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Thursday, December 19, said he hoped to name a government to lead the country out of its political…
On Monday, December 16, at 9:55 am, the very first direct Paris-Berlin high-speed train departed from the Gare de l’Est station in the French capital…
The fruit of a singular history of emancipation of the State from the Catholic Church, the French understanding of secularism, known as secularismis difficult for…
France’s highest appeals court on Wednesday, December 18, confirmed a verdict against former president Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling, ordering him to wear…
Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Bygmalion appeal trial in Paris on November 24, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP For the first time in the history…
On November 16, 2016, a couple, she in sunglasses and leather pants, he in a slim-fitting black suit and thin matching tie, slipped incognito under…
French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, imprisoned by Algerian authorities on national security charges, was again hospitalized on Monday, December 16, according to his French editor, raising…
Survivors wandered through streets littered with debris, searching for water and shelter, after Cyclone Chido leveled entire neighborhoods on December 14, 2024. AP France said…
Visiting French special envoy for Syria Jean-François Guillaume said Tuesday, December 17, his country was preparing to stand beside Syrians after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster by rebels…
France’s new prime minister, François Bayrou, was on Tuesday, December 17, facing a torrent of criticism less than a week into the job after choosing…
On Monday, the prosecutor requested 10 and 12 years’ imprisonment for the two men behind the ‘hate campaign’ that targeted Samuel Paty, and 14 and…
Agnès Fichot will never forget that day in 1977 when, just a few years out of law school, she picked up the phone to call…
A watch worn by French war-time hero and president Charles de Gaulle fetched more than half a million euros as part of an auction of…
Since the start of the Pelicot mass rape trial, there has been talk of the defendants’ sexuality. In particular, the defense and experts invited to…
French mass rape trial adjourns ahead of verdict set for Thursday The trial of a French man and dozens of strangers who he enlisted to…
Pelicot rape trial: Time for humility There were just a few more words left. The last ones from the 50 defendants – the 51st…
French prosecutors on Monday, December 16, sought jail terms of between one and 16 years for eight people on trial over the 2020 beheading of…
The Cinémathèque française, Paris, February 15, 2013. JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP There was no screening as planned of Last Tango in Paris (1972), by Italian director Bernardo…
The Comoros, on Monday, December 16, declared a national week of mourning after Cyclone Chido devastated the neighbouring French overseas department of Mayotte, where the…
The Perrier bottling plant in Vergèze, the site of the Bouillens spring LODI FRANCK/SIPA The most famous of sparkling water brands is under threat of…
Mass rape trial: 50 defendants make their final statements One last word each. After three and a half months, on the 64th day of the…