The end of Yeats: work and women in his last days in FranceYeats had a late creative surge – including ‘one of the greatest ever death-bed utterances’ – before he died surrounded by his muses in France 75 years agoTue Jan 28 2014 - 01:00
Shades of the monarchy in Hollande's Trierweiler statementFrancois Hollande repudiated Valerie Trierweiler with one sentenceMon Jan 27 2014 - 01:00
Survey: Two-thirds of French people say there are too many immigrants in FranceSome facts and figuresThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
French National Front focuses on Islam in third phase of far-right strategyPolls show FN could win biggest percentage of vote in European parliamentary electionsThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Renewal for ex-underage prostitute at centre of sex trialFranck Ribéry and Karim Benzema, whose trial began yesterday, are at risk of three years in prison and a fineTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:00
Inside Hollande’s love triangleThe French are entertained by the antics of President François Hollande, but will his new lover, Julie Gayet, become first lady, and will Valérie Trierweiler, his spurned former mistress, seek retribution?Sat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
Hollande’s political future is likely to be decided by the economy, not his affairThe French are ‘interested, amused, even shocked’ by the president’s infidelity, but if he can secure a recovery it is expected that all will be forgivenSat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
François Hollande’s new centrism wrong-foots right and leftThe shift in the French president’s policies has been praised by business management and the EU commissionThu Jan 16 2014 - 01:00
Hollande puts focus on affairs of the nation with economic plansUnder-fire French president promises to attack old chestnuts waste and fraudWed Jan 15 2014 - 01:00
French affair a trial for a wincing HollandeInstead of boudoir secrets, those at the yesterday’s press conference had to listen to the president droning on about spendingWed Jan 15 2014 - 01:00
Paris taxi drivers attack private chauffeurs as protest turns violentBattle between old and new economies evident in day-long strikeTue Jan 14 2014 - 01:00
French president to be questioned on his private lifeBorrowed apartment where Hollande and Gayet met linked to mafiaTue Jan 14 2014 - 01:00
France’s first lady hospitalised amid reports of Hollande affairValerie Trierweiler reportedly distraught over report about president and actor Julie GayetMon Jan 13 2014 - 01:00
Gossip magazine sells out as Hollande’s alleged affair fascinates French publicPresident threatens to sue ‘Closer’ after magazine publishes ‘dossier’ on alleged affair with actorSat Jan 11 2014 - 01:00
French National Front leader calls for the ‘explosion’ of EuropeRight-wing eurosceptics will do utmost to block next parliament, claims Marine Le PenFri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00
‘Newsweek’ broadside stirs Gallic pride as French ridicule journalist’s errorsPoliticians and media strike back over ‘French-bashing’ articleThu Jan 9 2014 - 01:00
Tyre executives released unharmed after “boss-napping”Communist trade unionists demand more severance pay as factory closesTue Jan 7 2014 - 20:02
Paris pursues comedian in ‘quenelle’ caseInterior minister’s crusade against Dieudonné dominates newsTue Jan 7 2014 - 01:00
Renaissance exhibition at Musée du Luxembourg in Paris the stuff of dreamsRenaissance artists found dreams a rich source of inspiration and self-expressionSat Dec 28 2013 - 01:00
All the Presidents’ menus: life as the top chef at the Élysée PalaceFried fois gras and stuffed fish were among French presidents’ favourites served up by chef Bernard Vaussion during his four decades at Élysée PalaceFri Dec 20 2013 - 11:27
Tour Montparnasse contaminated with asbestos5,000 employees who work in the tower at riskMon Dec 16 2013 - 01:00
What does the future hold for France?One of the euro zone’s biggest economies has 11 per cent unemployment, falling exports and significant budget deficits. How can the French turn this around?Sat Dec 14 2013 - 01:00
In the soupWith a high minimum wage and generous welfare system, France is tolerant of the poorSat Dec 14 2013 - 01:00
France considers sending Delacroix masterpiece to ChinaCulture minister says ‘Liberty Leading the People’ too fragile to travelFri Dec 13 2013 - 01:00
Electronic cigarette ruling prompts huffing, puffing and appeal in FranceA Toulouse court has ruled that ecigarettes constitute unfair competition for tobacconistsWed Dec 11 2013 - 01:00
Hollande and Sarkozy refuse to fly together to South Africa ‘for puerile reasons’The president and his predecessor had not met since June 2012Wed Dec 11 2013 - 01:00
Professional classes join French tax revoltDoctors, lawyers and others say they are ‘asphyxiated’ by increasesTue Dec 10 2013 - 12:57
France gets UN mandate for intervention in Central African RepublicMove given increased urgency as latest clashes leave more than 100 deadFri Dec 6 2013 - 01:00
French lawsuit against Bob Dylan for ‘incitement to hatred’Croatian group demands apology for comment Dylan made in interviewWed Dec 4 2013 - 01:00
France to legislate again for Sunday tradingCountry going in circles– ‘a typically French mess’, says ‘Le Monde’Tue Dec 3 2013 - 01:02
French identity crisis inflates chronic immigration issueFrance grapples with influx from Muslim Africa and eastern EuropeSat Nov 30 2013 - 01:00
In search of Proust: 100 years of Swann’s Way‘In Search of Lost Time’ is ‘the most famous and least read French novel’ – which is a pity, as it still rewards with its deep insightsTue Nov 26 2013 - 01:00
Three companies honoured at Ireland-France business awardsPremium given to digital innovationFri Nov 22 2013 - 01:00
Spoof photos try to “de-dramatise” the “Franco-German couple”‘Le Monde’ chronicles Merkel-Hollande relationshipSat Nov 16 2013 - 01:01
Secret report warns France on verge of revolt on tax issueUsually careful corps of prefects warns of ‘a possible social explosion’Fri Nov 15 2013 - 01:00
French PM condemns ‘racist’ attack on justice ministerRight-wing magazine cover compares minister to a monkeyThu Nov 14 2013 - 01:00
State to spend €200m on youth jobs guaranteeTaoiseach tells EU summit of four-month deadline for Ireland’s unemployed youthTue Nov 12 2013 - 22:34
Paris EU summit on youth jobs looks to spend €6bnTaoiseach says there is ‘real focus on having the money available’ by year’s endTue Nov 12 2013 - 22:20
Braque is back: French cubist finally escapes PicassoThe inventors of cubism were inseparable for seven years, then remained frenemies, observing one another’s work with suspicion. A Braque exhibition in Paris considers his work on its own meritsMon Nov 11 2013 - 01:00
Hollande urges French to pull together on economy in spirit of first World War effortPresident launches commemoration of war with appeal to French public to overcome crisisFri Nov 8 2013 - 01:00
New French centrist alliance launched with merger of two partiesFrançois Bayrou and Jean-Louis Borloo form The Alternative as an ‘alternative to impotence of politicians’Wed Nov 6 2013 - 01:02
French journalists’ deaths signal new phase in Mali strifeFrançois Hollande’s greatest success tarnished as jihadist organisations regroupTue Nov 5 2013 - 01:00
French journalists murdered ‘in cold blood’ in MaliMotive and identity of murderers unknown as killings are universally condemnedMon Nov 4 2013 - 01:00
The €500 note: a glamorous instrument for criminalsKnown as ‘the bin Laden’ by British intelligence, the note aids crimeMon Nov 4 2013 - 01:00
How absurd: the world as Albert Camus saw itThe writer, always his own man, refused to take sides on Algeria and was an anti-Soviet leftist even though it led to a rupture with fellow intellectual SartreMon Nov 4 2013 - 01:00
Le Pen provokes outrage over comments on freed hostagesNational Front leader appears to suggest four French hostages were ‘turned’ by kidnappersFri Nov 1 2013 - 01:00
Hollande’s tax U-turns fail to impressRecent reversals of fiscal measures suggest a lack of state muscleWed Oct 30 2013 - 19:30
A lasting impression: George Moore in FranceThe writer left the country he loathed when he was 18 to move to Paris, and became a key figure in the city’s artistic communityTue Oct 29 2013 - 01:00
Tapie tax arrangements in spotlight againExamination of controversial businessman’s tax file details his quest to whittle down taxes on compensation settlementSat Oct 26 2013 - 01:01
Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s parents on life without herIt is 17 years since Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s violent death in Cork. For her parents, the pain and grief enduresSat Oct 26 2013 - 01:00
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