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Comme Plantu ICI , j’ai le sentiment que le métier de sondeur politique est pour les crétins. Ça ne sert rigoureusement à rien. Croit-on qu...

No ! We’re not boat people looking for a new land. We’re simply abandoning a sinking ship. In this political cartoon by Plantu , whic...

Even genuine Communists. Here's a typical specimen: Pierre Laurent , 49, French journalist and politician, senator, former editor-in-chi...

Patrick Balkany and his wife Isabelle . You can see from their smiles that they’re contented. They have a son, Alexandre Balkany , who ...

The French justice minister Christiane Taubira resigned this morning, and was rapidly replaced by the Socialist  Jean-Jacques Urvoas . ...

Like countless French people, I would have been immensely sad if the extreme right-wing Front National had succeeded in taking advantage of...

The region in which I live is now known as Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , and today's election is a so-called triangular , involving three candi...

The great ship France seems to have collided with something big and nasty. On the radar screen, it looks like this: Outside, ever...

Up until recently, the principal subject of discussion in France was the sad state of the nation and the apparent failure of François Hollan...

On the extreme left-hand side of the political chessboard, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a brilliant orator who has been trying to persuade us tha...

The writing is on the wall. France has spoken definitively through our prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault . The criminal Bachar al-Assad must...

In his wonderful book entitled Jerusalem, City of Mirrors (1989), the late Amos Elon [1926-2009] spoke of a mysterious affliction referred...

The erotic operation that English-speaking people designate curiously as blowing is generally looked upon, in France, as sucking . I...

These days, people who hear of the Sarkozy couple would have normally imagined this duo: There's an offspring. The extreme right-wing p...

This afternoon, Christine Lagarde was still in Paris, working at her everyday job as minister of Finance in the government of François Fill...

Objective methods make it possible to measure media buzz in a quantitative fashion. This statistical approach informs us, apparently, that D...