France’s new PM Bayrou faces budgetary challenges as Moody’s downgrades credit rating No grace period whatsoever. It was 25 minutes past midnight on Saturday, December…
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Knights of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre surround the Holy Crown of Thorns during a procession for its return at Notre-Dame de Paris…
It was just past 5:00 pm on Friday, December 13, when France’s new prime minister, François Bayrou, walked alone across the courtyard of the Hôtel…
Over a year after he visited Marseille, Pope Francis returns to the Mediterranean shores. Whereas his predecessor , on September 12, 2008, inaugurated the Collège…
Although it was the Embassy in Paris that contacted the Elysée to inform that Don Felipe could not go to the inauguration of the cathedral,…
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…
As Poland prepares to take over the EU’s rotating presidency for six months on January 1, the threads of Europe’s diplomatic spider web are meeting…
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…
President Emmanuel Macron will reveal his choice for France’s next prime minister on Friday, the Elysée Palace confirmed, as the country grapples with months of political instability.
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 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.
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…
The Royal Family, which denies disagreements with the Executive, assumes the decision that the Kings will not travel to Paris after learning of the unrest…
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…
The rebirth of a stone phoenix, attended by political phoenix Donald Trump, and the French president, who was celebrating the genius of a nation of…