France

The film-making pair have already won the Palme d’Or twice – can they win a third?

The country’s rentrée – the return from summer holidays – is in progress… and so are political blackmail, mass protests, corruption and the probable collapse of the government

The controversial band defied local critics and pro-Israeli protestors at a riotous gig in Paris

Sandy Baltimore’s name has surprising links to Gaelic-speaking Ireland, colonial plantations and Caribbean migrations

The Louvre’s 69-foot ‘diamond of Paris’ contains 118 glass triangles and 675 ‘lozenges’. One man (and his robot) is in charge of washing them all…

Tall and glamorous, Demulder did not seem meant for war zones. And then she made them her life’s work

The city is quite obscenely beautiful, and the people are as warm as the weather

When Nazism came to her adopted home of France, the New Zealand journalist became a leading member of the resistance

Simple screen-age guidance offers what Britain’s crackdown doesn’t: clarity and trust

Conspiracy theorist Candace Owens claims that France’s first lady was born a man. Now the president and his wife will face her in court

The capital’s culinary identity has been forged by outsiders – from rural charcoal sellers to the migrants who staff its signature restaurants

France used to revere its intellectuals – but the men moaning about ‘le wokisme’ are intellectual lightweights

The PM’s meeting with Emmanuel Macron has brought the Brexit ghouls out in a chorus of whingeing. It seems they prefer Britain to be isolated

Five years after the fire, the resurrection of the breathtaking cathedral tells a whole new story

The Arles photographic fair is now probably the best in the world – the town’s provincial roots are a long way behind it

With drive-thru wine outlets on the rise, the French love of wine is coming face to face with their almost equally passionate disdain for le fast food

Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely turned machines and myths into joyful rebellion

The charming town of Llivia, a Spanish exclave in France, thrives with Catalan investment, in sharp contrast to its forgotten French surroundings

When it comes to building the person you’re meant to become, there are no shortcuts

The modest aristocrat was perhaps aware that she wasn’t the only woman who went the extra mile in the jungles of Indochina

The American indie stalwart's latest film tells the story of the making of another: Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle

Victims of sexual assault are harmed twice: first by their abuser and then by the justice system. Recognising this is just the start

Interior designer Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann is celebrated in the first of three exhibitions marking the movement’s centenary

The cemetery, opened by Napoleon, was unpopular at first. But then the VIPs came – followed by the ghosts

Mocked for speaking English with a Clouseau-esque accent, Lufbery’s time in American fatigues saw him become a wartime legend

A force of nature, Barclay was a boulevardier who made music and love with equal enthusiasm

How do you decide, for certain, that the place you emigrated to has changed you for good?

A newly discovered, signed script for Jean-Luc Godard’s first and greatest movie, Breathless, could fetch more than £400,000 at auction

More people are put to death in Iran than anywhere else on earth. Around the world, the protests are beginning

Britain and France both have atomic weapons. Now that the US is no longer a reliable ally, how should Europe deploy its nuclear deterrent?

The philosophical power couple lived in freedom, but that came at a cost for others around them

The Oscar-winning director of The Artist returns with a fairytale rooted in horror