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Aya Nakamura, the French Malian singer, did more than open the Games. She redefined what it means to be French. A new France was consecrated Friday evening during the opening [...]

In a blaze of French style blending history and artistic audacity, the Paris Olympic Games opened beneath plumes of blue, white and red smoke, as thousands of athletes defied a [...]

There is a glorious folly to the Paris Olympics, the first in the city since 1924, as if France in its perennial revolutionary ardor took a century to ponder something [...]

A left-wing bloc that won the most seats in legislative elections this month called the re-election of Yaël Braun-Pivet, an ally of President Emmanuel Macron, a denial of democracy. After […]

Marine Tondelier, leader of the Green Party, helped bring the left together to win France's parliamentary elections. Now can she help keep it from falling apart? When Marine Tondelier, the […]

Anne Hidalgo swam in the cleaned-up waters of the capital's river, fulfilling a promise that has become a symbol of the Olympic Games that start this month. After multiple delays [...]

The flame has been on a long journey since its arrival in May, but hopes that it would bring the country together have foundered on political division. Before an enthusiastic [...]

In an open letter, the French president rejected any role in government for the far-left France Unbowed party, setting the stage for a heated showdown. Expressing himself for the first [...]

Far from producing a 'clarification,' President Emmanuel Macron's snap election has yielded a muddle that could take months to sort out. Instead of waking up on Monday to a country […]

The outcome left no party with an absolute majority and France bracing for potential political paralysis. France faced a hung parliament and deep political uncertainty after the three main political [...]

In northern Burgundy, services have collapsed and the far-right National Rally has risen. Last month, Sophie-Laurence Roy, a conservative Paris lawyer with roots in Burgundy, decided to cross the political […]

Squeezed by the far-right National Rally party and the left, President Emmanuel Macron faces a country that may prove ungovernable. An era has ended in France. The seven-year domination of [...]

The U.S. presidential debate and Sunday's snap election in France have emboldened nationalist forces that could challenge NATO and undo the defense of Ukraine. This month, President Biden, flanked by [...]

President Emmanuel Macron's governing style has always been intensely top-down. But with far-right nationalists in France closing in on power, some believe he may have gone too far this time. [...]

In France, as in the United States, feelings harden against immigrants, and President Emmanuel Macron and President Biden take note. At the heart of the rapid rise of the nationalist [...]

An attack on a 12-year-old Jewish girl is inflaming an already tense and divisive situation. The alleged rape last weekend of a 12-year-old Jewish girl by boys who hurled antisemitic [...]

An overwhelming outpouring of tributes felt like a quest for some anchor in shared memory. It was like Françoise Hardy, the wistful singer and songwriter of a certain French melancholy [...]

The French president called on people of good will to come together to defend the Republic in the snap election he decided to call. Declaring himself an ''incorrigible optimist,'' President [...]

The announcement by the head of the Republicans was a historic break with his party's policy as dismay spread over a snap election. The head of France's conservative party on [...]

The president has challenged voters to test the sincerity of their support for the far right in European elections. Were the French letting off steam, or did they really mean [...]

The friendship between France and the U.S. endures. But tensions have mounted over the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and how Europe can step out of America's shadow. In the [...]

Charismatic and clean cut, shorn of the Le Pen name, the young National Rally leader seems poised to take his party to its best showing ever in European elections on [...]

D-Day at 80 They were ordinary. The young men from afar who clambered ashore on June 6, 1944, into a hail of Nazi gunfire from the Normandy bluffs did not [...]

The environment will come first as France tries to revitalize the global image of its cuisine. There will be no French fries for the 15,000 athletes at the Olympic Games [...]

The environment will come first as France tries to revitalize the global image of its cuisine. There will be no French fries for the 15,000 athletes at the Olympic Games [...]

Not on its own, in all likelihood. But it reflects a growing, global exasperation with Israel that might eventually lend momentum to a two-state solution. The decision by Spain, Norway [...]

Political violence and polarization stalk Europe today, with ominous echoes of the past. Dmitri A. Medvedev, the former Russian president and regular forecaster of a third World War, had no [...]

The ruthless assault that freed a prisoner and set off a manhunt has turned attention to a multibillion-dollar drug trade fueling gang warfare. If France is a country of illusions [...]

The French authorities said that armed assailants had attacked a prison convoy, killed two guards and freed an inmate. The black Peugeot 5008 rammed the police van carrying a prisoner [...]

The flame will be carried on a 79-day journey across France and its territories, culminating in Paris with the start of the Olympic Games on July 26. Before a crowd [...]

Talks in Paris with President Macron produced a call for an ''Olympics truce'' this summer but no concrete progress on Beijing putting pressure on Russia. President Xi Jinping of China, [...]

Jordan Bardella, 28, is the new face of the far right in France. Measured, clean-cut and raised in the hardscrabble northern suburbs of Paris, he laces his speeches with references [...]

The Chinese leader has carefully chosen three countries -- France, Serbia and Hungary -- that to varying degrees embrace Beijing's push for a new global order. On his first visit [...]

In a major speech, France's president returned to a familiar theme, warning that ''Our Europe is mortal'' if it does not become more self-sufficient. Challenged by the extreme right and [...]

A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France, leveraging diplomacy and guile to secure his nascent country's future. Sailing across the Atlantic to France in [...]

Gazing out from his 265-acre farm to the silhouetted Jura mountains in the distance, Jean-Michel Sibelle expounded on the intricate secrets of soil, climate and breeding that have made his [...]

Gazing out from his 265-acre farm to the silhouetted Jura mountains in the distance, Jean-Michel Sibelle expounded on the intricate secrets of soil, climate and breeding that have made his [...]

In four months, France will host the Paris Olympics, but which France will show up? Torn between tradition and modernity, the country is in the midst of an identity crisis. [...]

In four months, France will host the Paris Olympics, but which France will show up? Torn between tradition and modernity, the country is in the midst of an identity crisis. [...]

The leaders of France and Germany tried to heal an increasingly public rift over their approach to the war, holding talks alongside Poland’s prime minister on support for Kyiv. Chancellor [...]

A fraught relationship has recently turned bitter, with insults and barbs threatening European unity at a critical moment. It was a private dinner in a Parisian garden on the Boulevard [...]

A fraught relationship has recently turned bitter, with insults and barbs threatening European unity at a critical moment. It was a private dinner in a Parisian garden on the Boulevard [...]

The French president attempted to forge a united front on a harder line against Russia. But few were persuaded. Attacked at home and abroad for his statement last month that [...]

The French president attempted to forge a united front on a harder line against Russia. But few were persuaded. Attacked at home and abroad for his statement last month that [...]

The French president's openness to Western troops in Ukraine signaled a quest for military resolve. But some allies felt blindsided. With his jolting unexpected statement that sending Western troops to [...]

The French president’s openness to Western troops in Ukraine signaled a quest for military resolve. But some allies felt blindsided. With his jolting https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/world/europe/europe-ukraine-support-meeting.html?searchResultPosition=1 that sending Western troops to Ukraine [...]