In his first parliamentary address in mid-January after coming to power, France's Prime Minister, François Bayrou, offered the chance to renegotiate the contested plan to increase the retirement age ...

Colonisation was a terrible thing, but with music we hope we can take something that was very bad and find something good, to ...

“Au Fil de L’Or” — in English, “Golden Thread” — is to retrace the art of incorporating gold into women’s ceremonial clothing ...

Marie Le Pen's tomb was vandalised, less than three weeks after the founder of France's far-right National Front party was ...

President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to live forever is getting panned—and may be headed for court ...

This allowed the FN, with 9.8 per cent of the vote, to return 35 members. Jacques Chirac, who became prime minister in 1986, ended proportional representation, and in the legislative elections of ...

At the time of the election campaign, France had a divided government, with a right-wing Gaullist president, Jacques Chirac, elected in 1995, and a Socialist Party majority in parliament ...

A new exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi is exploring a thousand years of African history through the lens of the continent’s ...

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi offers an immersive journey into the traditions of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups, ...

Front-runner and incumbent President Jacques Chirac made an appeal against extremism. It worked. Chirac won the runoff with more than 80% of the vote. Daughter Marine Le Pen took over the party in ...

2002: presidential 'earthquake' - Le Pen sends tremors through the French establishment in the 2002 presidential election, when he secures the coveted second spot in a run-off with Jacques Chirac.