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Throughout the coming week, we can expect some spectacular fireworks (akin to the final five minutes in a yet-undecided rugby match) as Nico...

Click here to see this final word—of a rather personal nature—that François Hollande offers his supporters on the eve of the first rou...

I love this photo, taken a year ago, which reveals the obvious sympathy, if not complicity, between the Socialist presidential candidate Fra...

François Hollande has just released his official electoral video for the presidential campaign. A constantly reoccurring concep...

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

Nicolas Sarkozy was not particularly prudent in his choice of this calm marine backdrop for his electoral poster, released yesterday. ...

Those are the lovely words— elegance and responsibility —employed by François Hollande as a reaction concerning the electoral exhortations...

It's a bit scary to see that Nicolas Sarkozy is visiting Libya today, at a weird moment when the ousted dictator Gaddafi still remains...

François Hollande is behaving correctly when he draws attention to the fact that his current success in voting-opinion polls is no guarante...

To be perfectly honest, I haven't yet actually paid my fees to become a genuine member of the Parti Socialiste , but this will no doubt ...

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

Long ago, when I had just arrived in France and was working with IBM, a French colleague told me a trivial parable that illustrates perfectl...

The "we" is France, and that includes me. I'm proud of the performance of our soldiers, both in Libya and in the Ivory Coast, ...

"Nothing to be done." - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot . The French president Nicolas Sarkozy is backed up by a political part...

Certain observers expressed their conviction, today, that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has produced firm signals that he intends to be a presiden...