France

The actor, activist and icon didn't care what anyone thought of her. That was both her greatest strength and her fatal flaw

Non-French speakers don’t fully understand the phrase “sales connes”. But we do, which makes the president’s wife using it even more awful

National Rally’s Jordan Bardella is no backer of Frexit, despite meeting Nigel Farage in London

A speedy stop at Bouillon Chartier is exemplary value at just over 15 euros

The German artist’s epic Paris retrospective reveals an artist who can’t be pigeonholed

A pacy and ferocious player, disappointments weren’t uncommon throughout the Frenchman's life. Nor was depression

Eugene Hütz and his band turn the Council of Europe into a carnival of defiance

It is a decade since the worst terror attack in French history left 132 dead. Where people died, Parisians now drink beer and smoke cigarettes

Ten years on, a new drama shows how seven hostages came face-to-face with death

When philosopher Manon Garcia went to the Gisèle Pelicot trial, what struck her most was the defendants’ sheer lack of remorse. If we can’t change this, she asks, can we live with men?

Macron and Lecornu have got away with it for now - but the country has forgotten the art of compromise

The V&A’s new exhibition shows Marie Antoinette as both icon and casualty of luxury

After just 27 days in office, France’s prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned and threw the country into chaos – again

Hunting season has begun in France but the participants’ lack of etiquette and disregard for the rules is frustrating locals

The sport’s familiar – but often baffling – terminology has its origins in Anglo-Norman instructions, Old French numbers and Arabic palms

Affecting one in six adults, obesity has doubled in France during the last 25 years

As the Pompidou Centre in Paris prepares to close for a five-year renovation, it is staging the largest single show in its entire history

François Ozon makes bold artistic decisions in his adaptation of L’Étranger

A coalition of hard right and hard left are both attacking Macron, which is just what the Kremlin wants

There’s only one person to blame for this cycle of collapsing governments

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