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In a TV interview published yesterday, the former president Nicolas Sarkozy , in charge of the political party called Les Républicains , has...

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

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

This man is our main hope of defeating Sarkozy and bringing the French nation back onto a road towards the republican goal of liberté, éga...

Many people in France are in a state of shock after learning today at dawn (French time) that Dominique Strauss-Kahn —the brilliant French e...

Tomorrow morning, the new president of France will be sworn in. So, this evening at eight o'clock, Jacques Chirac spent five minutes on...

Back in the days of Charles de Gaulle , few people would have used the word "couple" to designate the General and his wife Yvonne ...

Click here to see the victory website of Nicolas Sarkozy.

An encouraging aspect of the final round of the French presidential elections was the massive turnout of voters (in a nation where voting is...

I've already stated my opinion that the "tough guy" image of Nicolas Sarkozy could become a provocation for countless individu...

To my way of thinking (which is biased, of course), Ségolène Royal was a far better performer than Nicolas Sarkozy in last night's gra...

Often, I spend a good part of the day trying to solve some kind of computing problem. Subsequently, if somebody were to ask me, on the phone...

The TV encounter between Ségolène Royal and François Bayrou turned out to be extremely polite and friendly, with no rudeness, aggressiveness...

At the moment I'm writing (eleven o'clock in the morning), the TV is turned on and I'm waiting, like countless French viewers, t...

Everybody is reassured to discover that the two contenders in the final sprint bear the respective colors of the Left and the Right. In the ...

Tomorrow evening, the tradition of election-night parties will be in full swing from one end of France to the other. The general idea, to av...

We're four days away from the first round of the French presidential elections. Since I'm not French, I won't be voting, but I h...

I've translated into English the flyer for a big outdoor reunion in Paris, next Sunday at the Trocadéro, organized by the Nicolas Hulot ...

Looking at recent posts, Freudian readers of my blog might conclude that I've got some kind of a fixation for women in white. Now, that ...

Up until today, the Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal had a dynamic and outspoken spokesman, 44-year-old Arnaud Montebourg . ...