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...One of Macron’s allies, the centrist politician François Bayrou, will go on trial in October on charges regarding parliamentary assistants for the MoDem party....
...The couple lived nearby and openly in an extramarital relationship that lasted almost a decade (Sand’s other lovers included writers Prosper Mérimée, Jules Sandeau and Alfred de Musset, and the actress Marie...
...Marie Gane, 52, one of the anti-Sall protesters in New York, said she wanted “to show our president . . . we’re tired of being in poverty”, adding: “We want our country back.”...
...Delors met and married his wife, Marie Lephaille, in 1948. The elder of their two children is Martine Aubry, who followed her father into politics and led the French Socialist party from 2008 to 2012....
...Its exhibition will feature the desk designed by Pierre Paulin in 1983 for François Mitterrand’s presidential office....
...Every day, I walk past the restaurant and marvel at the selection of wines displayed in the window, including those by Anne and Jean-François Ganevat, Kenjiro Kagami and Pierre Overnoy....
...Or perhaps it was April 21 2002, when far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen reached the run-off of the presidential elections....
...For those of you who read French, take a look at this commentary by Marie Astier for the Reporterre website....
...François de Poortere, head of Old Master paintings at Christie’s New York, says: “The no-reserve aspect creates buzz and it is a signal of our faith that the market will support these pictures and that the...
...Godard was married twice, to two actresses who appeared in his films — Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky — and is survived by his partner Anne-Marie Miéville....
...Like Madame Swann, Proust in Helleu’s affectionate tribute still appeared exquisite and youthful as if, François Mauriac said, “Time didn’t dare touch him who had tamed and vanquished it.”...
...Where François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol never wholly abandoned traditional storytelling modes, for all their radicalism of theme or style, Godard insisted that a story should have a “beginning, middle...
...But it’s not been a disaster as some people say,” said François-Marie Bréon, a researcher at France’s Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment....
...Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, the Paris mayor whose party political forebears include presidents François Mitterrand and François Hollande, won just 1.75 per cent of the votes in the first round of the...
...In 2002, Jacques Chirac, the incumbent president, was elected with more than 80 per cent of the votes against Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the Front National....
...In 2002, she joined the 1.5mn French who protested when Marine Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie made the presidential run-off against Jacques Chirac....
...I remember the television debate between the standard-bearer of the moderate right, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and the Socialist party candidate, François Mitterrand; Giscard d’Estaing landed a decisive blow...
...Lawyer François Feuillat is sufficiently embedded in the Burgundy wine scene that Volnay grower Frédéric Lafarge stays with him when in London....
...The piece passed down through the family of Eudoxe Marcille, a 19th-century connoisseur who inherited numerous works by influential artists such as Boucher and Fragonard from his father, François Marcille...
...Also in the lot is a version of Magritte’s masterpiece L’Empire des Lumières, which the Belgian artist gifted to his muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet....
...’s “Cocodoll”, which is shaped like a seagull — seems as if it’s waiting for Marie-Antoinette to lounge on it....
...Many voters who see themselves as centre-right — those who supported disgraced centre-right politician François Fillon in his failed bid for the presidency in 2017 — may be inclined to back Zemmour even...
...Jean-Marie Guéhenno, a peacekeeping expert who heads a programme on conflict resolution at Columbia University in New York, said: “I think when you are more distanced from day-to-day events you are sometimes...
...His predecessor, the Socialist François Hollande, turned down the same petition to honour a woman celebrated by the French left....
...The account of Richelieu’s navigation between competing power centres personified by Marie de Medicis and Anne d’Autriche in a religiously divided France and Europe is both instructive and entertaining....
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