Cruel Crossing charts the history of the escape routes in the Pyrenees used by Spanish republican, then French Jewish refugees. It is a thoughtful memorial to these brave and desperate people

Sacre bleu! Why bother learning any French when in France you’ll just be humiliated? Let’s study Mandarin, or Arabic, or Spanish in schools instead.

‘Hollande’s ministers are falling out among themselves and criticism from his left-wing allies is getting ever more strident’

The infamous French libertine should be enjoying a reviva. The trouble is, he was a rotten pornographer