List of France articles
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Singer Josephine Baker performs. Josephine Baker: First American to Enter France’s Panthéon
The Black expatriate singer, dancer, resistance hero, and civil rights warrior exits stage left into history.
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Bernard-Henri Lévy speaks to the United Nations General Assembly. Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Journey From Barricades to War Zones
In “The Will to See,” France’s great proponent of humanitarian interventionism chronicles the world’s forgotten wars.
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Candidates for the 2022 French presidential election lay a wreath for Charles de Gaulle France’s Mainstream Political Parties Are a Dying Breed
As the presidential election looms, the parties that ruled France for half a century are now fighting for their very survival.
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bluebeard-foreign-policy-illustration How a Bloody French Fairy Tale Explains France’s Sexual Politics
The tale of Bluebeard the serial wife-killer echoes in the #MeToo movement.
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Philippe Étienne in 2014 French Ambassador on AUKUS: ‘Every Crisis Is an Opportunity’
Philippe Etienne spoke about the controversial sub deal, his recall to Paris, and a new way forward for U.S.-French relations.
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French Gendarmerie stand guard by the main gates of the Palais de Justice, where the trial of the alleged perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks is taking place, in Paris on Sept. 7. The ‘Trial of the Century’ Will Test French Values
With 14 alleged terrorists on the stand and an election coming up, can politicians resist weighing in?
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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in Lens, France on Nov. 9, 2018. No One Does Self-Interested Arms Deals Like the French
Paris’s complaints about AUKUS are remarkably hypocritical given France’s history of selling weapons despite its allies’ objections.
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Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Sheean arrives for a logistics port visit on Apr. 1 in Hobart, Australia. Will AUKUS Hit China Where It Hurts?
The submarine deal could reshape the balance of power in the Pacific—and draw Australia into future conflicts.
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French President Emmanuel Macron takes part in a military ceremony. How France Can Avoid Being Reduced to a Symbolic Power
After AUKUS, the French face the same fate on the world stage as the British unless they pursue EU strategic autonomy led from Brussels rather than Paris.
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Biden and Macron at NATO in Brussels Don’t Underestimate the AUKUS Rift With France
Paris doesn’t speak for Europe, but it can disrupt trans-Atlantic ties.
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Mario Draghi and Emmanuel Macron speak during an EU summit. Europe Is Fighting Over Its Fiscal Future
France and Italy want to fend off the frugals and make COVID-19-era budget flexibility a feature, not a bug.
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U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron sit together at the G-7 summit in Cornwall, United Kingdom, on June 13. Spat With France Overshadows Biden Debut at UNGA
France recalls its envoys to Washington and Canberra over a dispute ahead of the major U.N. summit.
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Macron at nuclear submarine launch ceremony in France Sub Snub Has Paris in a Tizzy Over AUKUS
The French are right to be upset—but only about the money, not the strategy.
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French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Masoud Barzani in Erbil. Macron Uses Biden’s Afghan Retreat to Push ‘Strategic Autonomy’
But doubts remain whether he can cut his own path in the Middle East.
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French President Emmanuel Macron greets people at Félix Houphouët Boigny International Airport in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Dec. 20, 2019. Macron Isn’t So Post-Colonial After All
National sovereignty is one thing. Monetary sovereignty is another.
