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Formidable politician who faltered on reforms
The French defence group head and politician lived in his father’s shadow
One presidential candidate will offer a genuine jolt to its stalled economy, writes Anne Dias
Young invoke late British leader over zero-hour contracts, writes Anne-Sylvaine Chassany
Building what is meant to be an ultra-safe reactor has proved extremely difficult in France and Finland
For 10 years, the Quai Branly has been a museum like no other. How has this been achieved?
The choice is between the defence of founding principles and acceptance of a need to change direction
Gritty Gaullist who decried a dual danger to sovereignty
Elysée summons ambassador amid ‘unacceptable facts’ of phone call monitoring
White House silent on claims NSA tapped French presidents’ phones
Bonaparte’s legend has oscillated between the ‘dark’ and the ‘golden’, says Anne-Sylvaine Chassany
The former adviser to Margaret Thatcher is unapologetic about his less wholesome clients
Ex-president sucked into a less than statesmanlike Punch and Judy show, writes Hugh Carnegy
Cameron must win Hollande’s support on EU reform
France wants to use the mausoleum to manage gender relations
Charles Ratton raised the profile of tribal art and was ahead of his time in realising its commercial potential
The UK political realm’s moral state is not quite as clean as it likes to think
Christopher Louis McIntosh Johnson, 1931-2012, writer and economist
A sympathetic biography of Jacques Chirac is instructive in understanding the travails that beset today’s Gaullists
Lives are saved not by ideology or personality but by boring details
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