Marriage law debacle set to continueIt began as a discreet Socialist campaign promise, brought up in public only in response to questions, outlined in letters to…Wed Oct 14 1998 - 01:00
Opulent new line brings driverless trains to metroEverybody who is anybody in Paris is invited to a gala dinner tonight in, of all places, a metro stationWed Oct 14 1998 - 01:00
Solana warns `countdown' has startedMr Javier Solana, Secretary-General of NATO, has joined calls for tough action against Serbia to prevent "a humanitarian catastrophe…Thu Oct 08 1998 - 01:00
Le Pen is stripped of political immunityDozens of lawsuits and fines have not diminished the penchant of Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right-wing National…Wed Oct 07 1998 - 01:00
Wining and dining signals warm phase of relationshipWhen Germans talk about having a fine time, they say they are living wie Gott in Frankreich - like God in FranceThu Oct 01 1998 - 01:00
Verdict on surviving French rebel without a cause todayShe sits in the dock in the Paris assize court, small and frail, hunched over between two gendarmesWed Sept 30 1998 - 01:00
Boys' rape of girl (13) highlights rising child crime rateFrench police at the Brigade des Mineurs, which deals with juvenile offenders, had never seen anything like it.Fri Sept 25 1998 - 01:00
Parisians look on car-free day as breath of fresh airOn normal days, the intersection of the Boulevards St Germain and St Michel is the busiest, noisiest and most polluted in Paris…Wed Sept 23 1998 - 01:00
Art experts disagree over the need to give `Mona Lisa' a faceliftThe two Mona Lisas staring out from the front page of the latest issue of Le Journal des Arts sum up the debate raging between…Thu Sept 03 1998 - 01:00
Proud coiffeur keeps faith and flame aliveJacques and Jacqueline, Georges and Frederic were the salvation of television cameramen searching for emotion at the golden flame…Tue Sept 01 1998 - 01:00
Ex-MI6 man says Diana's driver was an agentA former MI6 agent, Mr Richard Tomlinson (35), was yesterday questioned for two hours by Judge Herve Stephan, the French magistrate…Sat Aug 29 1998 - 01:00
Novelist pioneers new genre in revengeMost of us know couples like Catherine and Francois KellyWed Aug 26 1998 - 01:00
Chirac link raised as Juppe is examined in scandalHis 18-year stint as mayor of Paris and the murky finances of his Gaullist party came back to haunt President Jacques Chirac …Wed Aug 26 1998 - 01:00
Iran visit bolsters France's Middle East roleFrance has strengthened its position as Europe's main interlocutor with the Muslim world by sending the French Foreign Minister…Tue Aug 25 1998 - 01:00
Minister will aim to consolidate French-Irish opposition to CAP cutsTo commemorate General Humbert's landing in Mayo 200 years ago, Paris has dispatched a minesweeper and 75 troops - including …Sat Aug 22 1998 - 01:00
Magistrate wages war on growing tide of French financial corruptionShe has been called the most powerful woman in France, the terror of the financial and industrial establishment.Fri Aug 21 1998 - 01:00
France moves to new level in battle against pollution from private carsFrance officially adopted the pastille verte, a green windshield sticker, to combat air pollution yesterday. Henceforward, 7Tue Aug 18 1998 - 01:00
France introduces a tax-cutting budgetWhen the French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, Mr Strauss-Kahn, presented his 1999 budget yesterday , he said…Thu Jul 23 1998 - 01:00
Tough Gaullist wants generosity on immigrants to follow multi-racial team's World Cup victoryJust when the Jospin government thought it could forget about France's messiest issue - illegal immigrants - Mr Charles Pasqua…Thu Jul 23 1998 - 01:00
Assad gets red carpet as France seals new partnershipThe Syrian President, Mr Hafez Al-Assad, strode down the red carpet of the neo-Renaissance reception hall to the tune of baroque…Sat Jul 18 1998 - 01:00
Glory days and nights keep going as football euphoria meets national dayIt was a Bastille Day like no other - as if the country could not stop celebrating its unexpected World Cup victoryWed Jul 15 1998 - 01:00
Ahern meets French prime minister to press CAP caseThe Taoiseach yesterday met the French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, as part of a round of talks on the reform of the EU'…Tue Jul 14 1998 - 01:00
Magazine gives details of remarriage of French murder victim's husbandThe remarriage of Mr Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the widowed husband of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, who was murdered in west Cork…Thu Jul 02 1998 - 01:00
France honours Jordan, MorrisonThe two Irishmen looked out of place in the former bedroom of Napoleon's youngest brother, King Jerome of WestphaliaWed Jul 01 1998 - 01:00
Thousands mourn assassinated singerMatoub Lounes was buried between a fig tree and a cherry tree in the garden of the house where he was born in the mountain village…Mon Jun 29 1998 - 01:00
Le Grand Stade fails to impress viewed from the slums of BelairThe Belair quarter of Saint-Denis looks a lot like North Africa - bars on windows, plywood over broken panes of glass, laundry…Wed Jun 24 1998 - 01:00
Iran and US use football to score diplomatic goalsIt wasn't by chance that President Clinton and the US Secretary of State, Ms Madeleine Albright, made speeches friendly to Iran…Tue Jun 23 1998 - 01:00
Hooligans' lethal tactics alarm policeAs a French gendarme hovered between life and death in a Lille hospital yesterday, French and German leaders and football federation…Tue Jun 23 1998 - 01:00
Chateau puts on sober face to match Iran's footballersIn living memory, the Haute-Loire town of Yssingeaux, population 6,700, has not seen such a commotionFri Jun 12 1998 - 01:00
Airline beats pilots one-nil - with the help of competitorsThe first match of the World Cup was over before the Brazilian and Scottish football teams set foot in the stadium last night…Thu Jun 11 1998 - 01:00
Own-goal strike costs state airline £8,000 a minuteIt was the first inkling I had that France's temperamental "social climate" was changingWed Jun 10 1998 - 01:00
France in turmoil as strike by pilots intensifies World Cup `madness'Twenty-four hours before the World Cup is to begin here, chaos in the French transport sector, a strike by medical interns, and…Tue Jun 09 1998 - 01:00
Crash witnesses confrontedHad she been an ordinary person, the files on Princess Diana's fatal car crash would long ago have been consigned to police archives…Fri Jun 05 1998 - 01:00
France is back, says Chirac in regional power playThe Lebanese Prime Minister, Mr Rafic Hariri, fought his way through the forest of acute and grave accents, carefully enunciating…Mon Jun 01 1998 - 01:00
Remembering times past at Sorbonne anniversaryIt wasn't like this when I was here 21 years agoWed May 27 1998 - 01:00
Police hold 80 Islamists in Europe in run-up to World CupPolice in five European countries arrested more than 80 suspected Islamist militants early yesterday in raids intended to prevent…Wed May 27 1998 - 01:00
France seeks to standardise EU higher learning"I have a dream," the French Education Minister, Mr Claude Allegre, told a colloquium at the SorbonneTue May 26 1998 - 01:00
First Ladies find lots in commonWith that special talent of First Ladies, Bernadette Chirac and Hillary Clinton walked into the Council Chamber at Tulle, the…Wed May 13 1998 - 01:00
Paris provoked CIA and KGB alarmIn mid-Cold War, the US and Soviet intelligence agencies watched the May 1968 events in France with alarmSat May 09 1998 - 01:00
Jacques, Helmut build bridge at Avignon summitThe chumminess was a little forced, but the leaders of France and Germany yesterday rose above their differences over the European…Fri May 08 1998 - 01:00
A heroine of the vie bohemeThe illegitimate daughter of a country sewing maid, Suzanne Valadon grew up as a street urchin in MontmartreWed May 06 1998 - 01:00
Mitchell ready to talk turkey with DustinThe 10 boys and girls from the fifth class of Mount Hanover School in Duleek, Co Meath, did not recognise the tall man who greeted…Tue May 05 1998 - 01:00
French unruffled by presidency rowPresident Jacques Chirac felt not the tiniest bit embarrassed about keeping the leaders of Europe up until 2:00 a.m.Mon May 04 1998 - 01:00
`She seems to swim so easily, it's so natural'The men in white shirts and trousers had to hold back the television cameras and photographers as Michelle de Bruin approached…Sat May 02 1998 - 01:00
French jobless rate falls below 3 millionFrance received good news yesterday, two days before the euro is to be launched in BrusselsFri May 01 1998 - 01:00
French greet euro with dispassionate embraceWhen President Jacques Chirac went on television earlier this month to calm French fears about EMU, newspaper editorial writers…Fri May 01 1998 - 01:00
Former minister is investigatedFrance's most outrageous corruption scandal moved closer to resolution yesterday when the former foreign minister and head of…Thu Apr 30 1998 - 01:00
May 1968: `the last great collective dream'They had everything, but they wanted moreWed Apr 29 1998 - 01:00
Hearing told French had no part in Rwandan massacresThe man known throughout Africa as "Papa m'a dit" - "Daddy told me" - arrived half an hour late to testify before the French …Thu Apr 23 1998 - 01:00
Jospin converges with Chirac on EMU issueFrench politics have come to a strange pass when the right-wing president and Socialist prime minister are more in accord with…Wed Apr 22 1998 - 01:00
