The sexually abusive behaviour by Abbé Pierre, the late French Catholic priest who became revered in France for his ...

April 17th marked the bicentenary of France’s recognition of the independence of Haiti, its former colony, when in return it ...

Just as a long period of soured relations between France and Algeria, its former North African colony, appeared to be on the ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou was this week further engulfed in controversy over whether he knew but kept quiet about ...

Following the expulsion earlier this week of 12 French officials from Algeria after an Algerian consulate official in France ...

President Emmanuel Macron said France plans to recognise a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a ...

Retired French surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, is standing trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting 299 people, many ...

French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen, who has appealed her conviction for diverting European Parliament funds for the ...

An association representing private forest owners in France, many of who are smallholders, has warned of gangs of thieves who ...

The trial of Nicolas Sarkozy and 11 others on corruption charges relating to the alleged funding of the former French ...

French culture minister Rachida Dati, 59, who is eyeing the post of mayor of Paris and who is targeted by an investigation ...

As of the start of the new academic year in September, French 'collèges' - secondary schools for 11- to 15-year-olds - will ...