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 06 2013 - 01:00
French lawsuit against Bob Dylan for ‘incitement to hatred’Croatian group demands apology for comment Dylan made in interviewWed Dec 04 2013 - 01:00
France to legislate again for Sunday tradingCountry going in circles– ‘a typically French mess’, says ‘Le Monde’Tue Dec 03 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 08 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 06 2013 - 01:02
French journalists’ deaths signal new phase in Mali strifeFrançois Hollande’s greatest success tarnished as jihadist organisations regroupTue Nov 05 2013 - 01:00
French journalists murdered ‘in cold blood’ in MaliMotive and identity of murderers unknown as killings are universally condemnedMon Nov 04 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 04 2013 - 01:00
The €500 note: a glamorous instrument for criminalsKnown as ‘the bin Laden’ by British intelligence, the note aids crimeMon Nov 04 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 01 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
France tells US that its spying is ‘unacceptable between friends’Government in Paris eager to avoid a confrontation with WashingtonTue Oct 22 2013 - 19:51
French PM demands answers on US surveillanceSnowden document showed US intercepted 3m French calls dailyTue Oct 22 2013 - 08:43
France says deported schoolgirl can return to FranceLeonarda Dibrani offered chance to return to school in France but without her familyMon Oct 21 2013 - 01:00
Hollande caught between Pantheon and a hard placeThe French president’s comment on the need to honour women heroes has created a dilemmaMon Oct 21 2013 - 01:00
Rise in polls gives Le Pen hope for presidencyThe National Front leader as France’s head of state may not be such a far-fetched ideaFri Oct 18 2013 - 01:00
French senator praises rejection of Seanad referendum‘The Irish case should serve as an example to European countries that might be tempted to renounce the bicameral model’Thu Oct 17 2013 - 11:09
End of an era as venerable ‘Herald Tribune’ to be reborn as ‘International New York Times’Change reflects aim to build international presence and bow to digital ageSat Oct 12 2013 - 01:09
Anne Hildalgo says when someone stands for election, Parisians want to know who they areDeputy mayor of Paris says she has a problem with Roma families living in the phone boothsThu Oct 10 2013 - 01:49
Sarkozy cleared of extorting funds from Liliane BettencourtCollapse of case strengthens possibility of political comeback for former French presidentTue Oct 08 2013 - 01:04
Strong National Front showing in French byelection alarms SocialistsFrench left has now lost eight legislative and three cantonal elections in the past yearTue Oct 08 2013 - 01:00
French ministers fight among themselves over RomaInterior minister accused of going ‘beyond what endangers the republican pact’Sat Oct 05 2013 - 01:00
Second Houses – What they do elsewhereFrench senate a regular irritant to presidentsTue Oct 01 2013 - 01:04
€18bn budgetary adjustment looms for French government80% of target to come from spending cuts and the remainder from new taxesThu Sept 26 2013 - 01:00
French rebuked over treatment of Roma‘Illusory’ to think Roma can be integrated into French life, says minister Manuel VallsThu Sept 26 2013 - 01:00
Not goodbye, but au revoirOutgoing French ambassador reflects on her time in IrelandMon Sept 23 2013 - 01:00
Gangland murders in Marseille, ‘the city that eats its children’, prompt crisis talksGangland killings sit uneasily with city’s status as European Capital of CultureSat Sept 07 2013 - 01:00
French left advocates action on Syria as right looks to UNPrime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault says passivity is ‘not an option against barbarity’Thu Sept 05 2013 - 01:00
Hollande considers parliamentary vote on military intervention in SyriaDiscord over Syria is provoking a constitutional crisis in FranceWed Sept 04 2013 - 01:00
