France

On the eve of its five-year closure, the Centre Pompidou is hosting an exhibition of Constantin Brâncuși’s work that is only the second of its kind in France

The art that brought Paris back from the dead

A call for peace remains an integral part of France's annual workers' march

The film festival is now about making deals, but in its early days it was about making stars, as young Europeans mixed with Hollywood’s elite

It's time Westminster put its money where its mouth is

In doing so, the party must prepare for the inevitable backlash from the far right fringes

After years of false starts, the Channel Tunnel opened 30 years ago this week. Yet Brexit shows that it has failed to bring us closer to Europe

Protesters at the Paris Institute of Political Studies have taken a leaf out of Columbia University’s book

An exhibition of 150 objects found in the river opens at the Archaeological Crypt on Île de la Cité, Paris

Amid all the glories of Paris, the Pompidou Centre stands as a monument to modernism and to the man whose name it bears

Despite not being a Francophile, post-Brexit Britain pushed me to find work and a future in France

A dream provided an epitaph inadvertently appropriate for a man who spent his life producing art and literature that shocked and appalled the unsuspecting

As the Entente Cordiale turns 120, more reasons to celebrate

Prime minister Gabriel Attal’s decision to bring the format to parliament is already proving controversial

Even for all her success and the wealth that came with it, Valadon’s bohemianism remained undiminished

I’ve spent time with refugees in French coastal camps where they've told me the policy hasn't put them off the journey

The polls opened at the Russian embassy in Paris – what I saw there gave me hope

Finesse, sensuality and richness are what Debussy brought to a staid musical world unprepared for such an emphatic upending of form and technique

In Britain, unbelievably, abortion technically remains a crime. That must change

According to French linguist Bernard Cerquiglini, the two languages are much more similar than we think

In a new book by a best-selling French author, ancient onlookers watch a family come to terms with a disabled child

In a subterranean game of cat and mouse beneath the streets of the French capital, cataflics hunt cataphiles in the city’s prohibited labyrinths

Every summer, the locals of Arnage near Le Mans look on in bemusement as Brits descend on the village in search of booze

The enormous Future Circular Collider is set to replace the Large Hadron Collider by the end of the century. But do we really need it?

French actor Judith Godrèche’s allegations of rape and abuse by star directors have opened up a second wave of #MeToo in France

No other writer has captured the singular beauty of the northern French coast like Rebecca Gisler in her debut novel

Rothko’s Seagram murals come to Paris

PM Attal is using Britain’s struggles as a weapon against Le Pen in his EU election campaign

The guardians of the French countryside are posing a headache for the very new, very young PM

In a bold reinvention, Sam Spade, the hardboiled San Francisco private eye made famous by Bogart, surfaces in 1960s France

The farmer blockades show that Emmanuel Macron and the City of Light must put on a winning show this summer for a deeply divided country

A thawing ice rink, frosty relations between some competitors and a distinct lack of fans couldn’t stop the success of Chamonix 1924