France

Godard’s A Bout De Souffle is needlessly repetitive and unbearably sexist

The art of slipping away from a party without saying goodbye is known across the Channel as ‘leaving in the English style’

The far right populist is likely to be the next president of France. A new book explains why

French trains have caused a stir by introducing age limits on certain services. Unfair, perhaps. But do you like peace and quiet? Or do you prefer screaming toddlers?

To succeed, you have to forget a fundamental law of walking in the Pyrenees: what comes down must go up

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

One guilty purchase was all it took for the algorithm to start stalking me

Exhibitions in London and Paris show a big-time director whose remarkable attention to detail comes from thinking small

Online trolls who claimed the French president’s wife was secretly a man, have been convicted in a Paris court. Does that mean misgendering someone – including trans people – now means jail time?

Newly super-rich Paris FC face Paris St Germain in France’s top flight for the first time in nearly 50 years. But can the city support two teams?

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