A conservative pundit's short-lived radio slot reveals basic flaws in French public broadcasting

Underfunding and crumbling schools only explain part of the lycéens’ revolt

A French rebel remembers how an old hatred resurfaced among post-1968 revolutionaries

At the Cannes festival, the French film industry erupts into farce

Meet the banlieue boy in a dark suit knocking on the Elysée's door

Shockingly, a business owner fires a star employee who disagrees with him

What his complicated legacy tells us about France.

A Paris exhibition provides a rare window onto one of France's most original authors

Roger Caillois, un des écrivains français les plus originaux du XXe siècle, fut un des rares penseurs à récuser frontalement Freud.

L’un des esprits français les plus originaux du XXe siècle dit ce qu’un poète ne doit jamais faire.

Killing people is wrong. Exploiting their death, apparently, is just as bad.

Why the flamboyant former minister Jack Lang and the disgraced financier were made for each other

Pourquoi Georges Bernanos est un des rares auteurs à avoir mis en scène la Terreur

Much ado about Stratford

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The BBC and its French counterparts face populist assault. Only one has the neutrality to survive it

A memoir by Pierre Boncenne, a French writer with Colombian ancestry, reveals uncomfortable truths about dual heritage

par Bernard Chappedelaine

The jailing of Nicolas Sarkozy marks a watershed in French democracy, but is this really justice?

An exhibition of sketches and studies shows the artist's raw genius

How a bold centrist project left illiberal radicals poised to take power

Relentless instability is destroying France’s center.

Fears of political violence are rising in both countries - which is better equipped to handle it?

A prime minister falls in France and one in the UK stumbles. Which nation's political system is more broken?

France is pushing the limits of its Fifth Republic constitution.

Both governments are deep in the red, but which is more broke?

Both governments are deep in the red, but which is more broke?

Discovering why people have been drawn to Arctic Norway for 12,000 years

My Arctic trip starts in a Norwegian outpost honouring heroes who reached both ends of the earth

The final episode of our Nordic breakdown saga offers a cautionary tale for travellers

In the third part of our Nordic car-rental saga, we make it out of the country in one piece, but considerably poorer

Where I find that Scandinavian efficiency can fall short

How I learned to stop worrying and love art for art's sake

Wherein classical legends prove indispensable to understanding marble warriors and bronze birds

Wherein I relaunch a blog and fly to Rome

Forty years ago in New Zealand, I watched my country descend into state terrorism

A powerless EU is dissolving like a sandcastle as the authoritarian tide rises, warns the French senator

How revolutionary justice found a convert in Mar-a-Lago

But it does have a street violence problem, which is largely ignored

For the same reason they make good cheese, as a newly released movie illustrates

How French and American journalists misunderstood Cambodia's Tragedy

Trump has been compared to Argentina's Javier Milei. A better parallel would be with Juan Perón

The French free-trade champion exposed Trump's tariff madness 180 years ago