French Protestants begin three-year commemoration of edict of NantesThere were no slick advertising campaigns, no live television broadcasts, no souvenir T-shirts or official CDs by famous musicians…Wed Sept 10 1997 - 01:00
Continuing campaign of violence claims lives of 11 women teachersThe last words of the Armed Islamic Group's (GIA) most recent diatribe summed up the group's strategy: "Blood, blood! Destruction…Sat Sept 06 1997 - 01:00
France's folly, France's FolliesIf there is such a thing as national character, one of the most salient features of the French is a dragging world weariness, …Fri Sept 05 1997 - 01:00
Establishment turns on photographersThe man who will decide the fate of Princess Diana's tormentors sat in a first-floor office at the Palace of Justice yesterday…Wed Sept 03 1997 - 01:00
Photographers indicted over death of princessIn an unprecedented step that shook the French media and legal professions yesterday, Magistrate Herve Stephan indicted six photographers…Wed Sept 03 1997 - 01:00
Princess's car driver was drunk - French prosecutorThe driver of the car in which Princess Diana and her Egyptian companion were killed was drunk and the car was travelling at …Tue Sept 02 1997 - 01:00
Seven `paparazzi' claim driver taunted themBefore leaving the Ritz Hotel after midnight, Princess Diana and Mr Dodi al-Fayed first sent two decoy cars in hopes of fooling…Tue Sept 02 1997 - 01:00
European integration accorded top priority by French leadersPresident Chirac, the Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, and the Foreign Minister, Mr Hubert Vedrine, accorded top priority to…Mon Sept 01 1997 - 01:00
Up to 300 Algerians dead in worst slaughter of civil warThe worst massacre in the 5 1/2 year Algerian civil war has left as many as 300 people deadSat Aug 30 1997 - 01:00
Creating jobs for youth key challenge for France's new `Joan of Arc'The French Minister of Employment and Solidarity, Ms Martine Aubry, is responsible for keeping three of Mr Lionel Jospin's most…Fri Aug 29 1997 - 01:00
Rwandans got combat training from US army, paper claimsThe US army provided combat and guerrilla warfare training for the predominantly Tutsi Rwandan army, according to a report by…Thu Aug 28 1997 - 01:00
Berbers see farther than corner shopParisians know them simply as l'Arabe du coin, the corner shop that sells fruit and vegetables, wine and breadWed Aug 27 1997 - 01:00
Rains bring relief to polluted citiesWhen two weeks of hot summer weather ended in thunderstorms yesterday, no one was more relieved than the French Environment Minister…Tue Aug 26 1997 - 01:00
Pope ignores Socialists' warning on 'provocation'Five hundred gendarmes wearing black boots and jackets cordoned off the wooded hillside where the cemetery is located 24 hours…Sat Aug 23 1997 - 01:00
Irish enjoy Papal 'Woodstock'The American gospel singer Dee Dee Bridgewater was belting out Oh Happy Day, the signal that the "Popemobile" had reached the…Fri Aug 22 1997 - 01:00
Youths mount anti-abortion protest on eve of papal visitThe day before Pope John Paul II's arrival in Paris was to have been one of reflection, prayer and catechisms in churches, the…Thu Aug 21 1997 - 01:00
The double life of Ali HabibOne Friday this summer, Paris police stopped Ali Habib on his way to the mosqueWed Aug 13 1997 - 01:00
Flop adds to hard times for Corsican nationalistsTimes are hard for A Cuncolta naziunalista, the legal branch of the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC)Tue Aug 12 1997 - 01:00
Papon's travel restricted in advance of trialIn the run-up to his trial for crimes against humanity, the former Vichy official Mr Maurice Papon (86) was yesterday banned …Fri Aug 08 1997 - 01:00
Jeanne Calment, the world's oldest person, dies in Arles in 123rd yearJeanne Calment used to say that smiling was the key to long lifeTue Aug 05 1997 - 01:00
Irish climber dies in fall from slopes of Mont BlancAn Irish climber was killed in a fall on the slopes of Mont Blanc in south-eastern France yesterday morning, the French Gendarmerie…Tue Aug 05 1997 - 01:00
Left's promise brings illegal aliens out in forceFor millions of French people, the front-page headline in yesterday's Figaro was a nightmare made inevitable by the left's parliamentary…Fri Jul 25 1997 - 01:00
Chirac and Jospin show strains of living togetherNobody said it was going to be easyThu Jul 17 1997 - 01:00
Summit to compound Chirac's woesNOTHING seems to go right for President Chirac these daysTue Jul 08 1997 - 01:00
Sequin, maverick Gaullist, assumes party leadershipMr Seguin's rise is all the more surprising because he has opposed EUMon Jul 07 1997 - 01:00
New RPR regime a blow to ChiracNEVER before in the history of the Fifth Republic has a ruling president lost control of the political party he foundedMon Jul 07 1997 - 01:00
Government's record is defended by JospinTHE French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, last night defended the record of his month-old government in his first television…Fri Jul 04 1997 - 01:00
French nuclear power under scrutinyTHEY were so confident, those French nuclear physicists of the 1970sWed Jul 02 1997 - 01:00
France honours citizen of the worldIF Jacques-Yves Cousteau's spirit hovered about his casket in Notre Dame Cathedral yesterday morning, it must have been at home…Tue Jul 01 1997 - 01:00
Dying to go to schoolAT 8.15 a.m., six men holding hatchets, sawn off shotguns and knives burst into the classroom at Oued Djer, a small village 50…Sat Jun 28 1997 - 01:00
Jospin accused of making `too many promises' in major policy statementTHE FRENCH Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, mixed moralising, lofty rhetoric and deficit-digging promises in his first major…Fri Jun 20 1997 - 01:00
Jospin aide jolts summit by raising EMU doubtsTHE French minister delegate for European affairs, Mr Pierre Moscovici, a long-time aide to the Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin…Wed Jun 18 1997 - 01:00
Jospin government lays down conditions likely to delay EMUTHE new French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, was only half-joking when he told other European Socialist heads of government…Sat Jun 07 1997 - 01:00
Poll will not change powerTHE posters for Algeria's parliamentary elections yesterday were an odd sight: alongside the coloured snapshots of candidates…Fri Jun 06 1997 - 01:00
Juppe and Seguin battle it out for leadership of defeated GaullistsMR Philippe Seguin, the outgoing speaker of parliament, set the tone on the fatal night of the June 1st election when he predicted…Thu Jun 05 1997 - 01:00
Jospin delivers broad cabinet placing emphasis on jobsTHE French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, did what he said he would his government, announced last night, is small with 27…Thu Jun 05 1997 - 01:00
Mitterand's rebellious heir chooses another difficult pathWHEN Lionel Jospin was a student at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) the French institute that trains high-ranking …Wed Jun 04 1997 - 01:00
A depressed but well-dressed Juppe hands over palace privileges to a rumpled JospinTHE REPUBLICAN guards of the French gendarmerie's second infantry regiment were waiting on the steps of the Matignon palace for…Wed Jun 04 1997 - 01:00
Disarray on French right risks driving more to FrontPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac's decision to dissolve parliament now seems so insane that the French have resorted to pseudo Freudian…Tue Jun 03 1997 - 01:00
Jospin accepts Chirac's request to form government during harmonious meetingPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac did not waste any time cleaning up the mess after his RPR UDF centre right coalition was devastated …Tue Jun 03 1997 - 01:00
Win likely to help create more socially oriented EULIKE a man who was trying to hammer one nail into the wall, President Jacques Chirac ended up destroying not only his apartment…Mon Jun 02 1997 - 01:00
A tale of three cities, three candidates and rejection of the right's vision for FranceMANTES LA JOLIE, a town of 45,000 people, 50 kilometres west of Paris, is that rare phenomenon sought after by journalists and…Mon Jun 02 1997 - 01:00
Chirac, Jospin line out togetherMAYBE they'll discover a shared interest in rugbySat May 31 1997 - 01:00
Centre-right believes it may have winning ticketTHREE days before parliamentary elections, secretaries are boxing up archives and shredding documents in the ministries that …Fri May 30 1997 - 01:00
Jospin and Lafontaine project EU visionTHE FRENCH Socialist party isn't in government yet, but that didn't stop Mr Lionel Jospin from issuing a joint declaration on…Thu May 29 1997 - 01:00
Political catchphrases that possess the elan of a mooseEVERY election campaign has its vocabularyThu May 29 1997 - 01:00
Chirac searches for elusive `elan'IT DIDN'T look or sound like a desperate plea for supportWed May 28 1997 - 01:00
West refrains from saying who lost the Cold WarWHILE they euphorically announced the end of the division of Europe that began at the 1945 Yalta Conference, NATO leaders in …Wed May 28 1997 - 01:00
Yeltsin surprises NATO with promise to disarm warheadsEIGHTEEN men in dark suits buried the Cold War at the Elysee Presidential Palace yesterday.Wed May 28 1997 - 01:00
