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An Australian article sent to me by my old friend Bruce Hudson was my first encounter with rumors about Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla...

Late Saturday afternoon, my dog Sophia raced out into the dark and started to bark in the direction of the crest of the hill up behind our ...

For the first time ever in the history of the Fifth French Republic, a former president will be put on trial. It's alleged that, when he...

French youth are shocked to discover retrospectively that the former president Jacques Chirac once had a deplorable habit. Even at public m...

I don't usually include French-language videos in my blog, but this one is a must, and you don't need to understand French to apprec...

Once, when I was chatting about family-history research with my father-in-law Jacques Mafart , he told me that such investigations would ine...

Hard times. In France, as elsewhere, the employment situation can be grim. Today, we were reassured to learn that a famous Frenchman and his...

Clearly, the only efficient tool for trashing computer files is a hammer. The destruction process should of course encompass, not only the c...

We've heard a strange financial allegation concerning Jacques Chirac , former president of France. Apparently he has an account at the T...

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

Everybody in France is familiar with the time-honored satirical weekly named Le Canard enchaîné (the duck in chains)... including people wh...

On Friday, the French PM Dominique de Villepin visited Harvard University, invited by the political science professor Stanley Hoffmann. Fou...

In most of the films he directed, Jacques Tati [1908-1982] played the role of a comic character called Monsieur Hulot . This pipe-smoking e...