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Just before the France-Ireland football match in Paris, I met my charming, gentle, retired, 60-something, French neighbour on the stairs of our Paris apartment building. “No,” he said. “I’m not watching the match. I never watch...
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Given the Panthéon’s function as the final repose for France’s greatest heroes, it’s perhaps not surprising that efforts are now afoot to relocate the ashes of writer and philosopher Albert Camus to a site beneath the 18th century...
France is considering the compulsory “chemical castration” of sexual criminals after a woman jogger was murdered in a forest south of Paris by a convicted rapist.
The “voluntary” use of drugs to destroy or limit the libido is...
The main French opposition party, the Socialists – delighted to have an issue to distract from their own internal back-stabbing – have accused the President of “scandalous collusion” with parts of the media.
The Elysée Palace,...
Some of the world’s biggest banks have revealed they are victims of an alleged fraud which has lost $50bn (£33bn).Bernard Madoff, who was arrested on Thursday, has been charged with fraud in what is being described as one of the biggest-ever such...
French authorities were hostageworking Saturday to free a luxury cruise yacht and its 30-member crew taken hostage by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
“The defence and foreign affairs ministries are working to act as quickly as possible, I hope...
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s rightwing party is bracing for a disappointing weekend in the final round of local polls expected largely to favour the left-wing oppostion. A look ahead to the consequences of Sunday’s election, which could see the...
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