The President of the Republic is intelligent, good-humoured, and likeable, but it's hard to shake the feeling that his time in office has been disastrous

From inner-city Paris to la France profonde, immigration has changed everything

Mme de Staël's works are once again being read, but she deserves to be remembered as a realist as well as a fabulist

During the Second World War, a "perpetual association" between France and the UK was proposed — in effect, the EU Mark I