List of France articles
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French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin Macron and Putin Meet in Bid to Defuse Russia-Ukraine Crisis
The French president wants to assert European leadership. But he’s still got an election to win.
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Russian President-Vladimir Putin shakes hands with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as outgoing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev stands nearby during a ceremony inaugurating Vladimir Putin as the new Russian President at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 7, 2018. Europe Must Shed Its Illusions About Russia
Only if Britain, France, and Germany abandon their post-Cold War fantasies will the West stand a chance of stopping Putin.
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French President Emmanuel Macron addresses a plenary session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Macron Hitches His Reelection to Europe
The French president rattled Washington—and his domestic political rivals—with a full-throated defense of Europe’s centrality.
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An illustration of French President Emmanuel Macron and the word emmerder. Macron’s Vulgarity Is a Big Deal
What the French president’s choice of swear word reveals about his style of governance.
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Valérie Pécresse gives a talk at a Paris high school. France’s Iron Lady
Can Valérie Pécresse reunite the right and defeat French President Emmanuel Macron?
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Water vapor rises from the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant shortly before it was permanently shut down as part of Germany's phaseout of all nuclear power, near Grafenrheinfeld, Germany. on June 11, 2015 Amid Energy Crisis, EU Fights Over Whether Nuclear Is Green
Brussels’s plans to cut emissions by promoting nuclear power has parts of the bloc up in arms.
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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech after a visit to a factory of manufacturer Valeo in Etaples, near Le Touquet, northern France on May 26, 2020 as part of the launch of a plan to rescue the French car industry. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) The Real Philosophy of Emmanuel Macron
The key to reconciling the French president’s many political contradictions is his widely misunderstood philosophical mentor.
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An inflatable craft carrying migrant men, women, and children crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel on July 22. The Channel Is Now a Charnel House
When at least 27 migrants, mostly Kurds, drowned last month, it was the culmination of a century-long Anglo-French tragedy.
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Eric Zemmour is photographed in Paris on April 22. France’s New Far-Right Firebrand
Professional provocateur Éric Zemmour makes Marine Le Pen look like a moderate.
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People protest France’s vaccination law. For Europe’s Far-Right, Vaccine Skepticism Is a Trap
Playing to the anti-vaccine base hasn’t led to electoral gains—yet.
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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.
