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A Day That Shook The World: the Liberation of Paris
Thursday 25 August 2011
On 25 August 1944, following four years of occupation, Paris was finally liberated from Hitler's control.
Former French President Chirac to stand trial
Sunday 06 March 2011
After years of claiming presidential immunity to avoid legal proceedings, Jacques Chirac is finally facing a court.
It's not just the UK – the Continent is suffering too
Monday 20 December 2010
Airports were closed, motorists were stranded, football matches were cancelled, politicians were blamed.... Britain? Yes, but the picture was the same in almost every other European country.
Anglo-French deal rewrites military history
Tuesday 02 November 2010
Britain and France will today announce a landmark defence alliance ranging from military operations in land, sea and air to nuclear weapons.
Something To Declare: Lake Como; Ski & Snowboard Show; Dutch Caribbean; cash in Russia
Saturday 09 October 2010
Marine le Pen: Mightier than her père?
Monday 13 September 2010
Daughter of the Right lays out for John Lichfield the future course of a party she says was 'misunderstood'
French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets Prince Charles on wartime broadcast anniversary
Friday 18 June 2010
French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a symbolic visit to London today to mark the 70th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's radio broadcast urging his nation to resist the Nazi occupation of France.
Sarkozy seeks to railroad his grand vision for Paris
Thursday 08 October 2009
Go-ahead for ambitious scheme to bind capital's centre to troubled suburbs
Simon Calder: Air France tragedy calls for real risk assessment
Saturday 06 June 2009
By Tuesday morning, media intrusion of grieving relatives at Paris's main airport had become so intensive that Air France felt obliged to send a message to editors: please keep reporters and camera crews away from the hotels around Charles de Gaulle.
Dylan Jones: Charles de Gaulle was once a halfway house between '2001' and 'The Ipcress File'
Saturday 14 March 2009
Talk of the Town
Something To Declare: France; Iberian sleep; Antananarivo
Saturday 01 November 2008
Where to go, how to save, what to avoid
Sarkozy's military plans 'put independence at risk'
Wednesday 09 April 2008
France's left-wing opposition has accused President Nicolas Sarkozy of placing French "independence" at risk by seeking to rejoin Nato's integrated military command and by promising to send extra troops to Afghanistan.
Anonymous art: the posters that inspired the uprising of 1968
Thursday 13 March 2008
The identity of the artists that created them is one of the great unsolved mysteries in the modern history of protest art, yet the body of work these anonymous designers produced remains one of the most powerful testaments to the revolutionary spirit of the age in which they worked.
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