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Emboldened by united trade unions, the tug of war between the street and the government over Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform had mostly taken on the form of strikes and demonstrations since mid-January.

‘I am 100% Russophile’ declares US actor at meeting of International Movement of Russophiles in Moscow

Newly released files show officials warned that despite ‘warm rhetoric’ the Russian leader maintained Cold War levels of spying against UK.

What was the effect of ‘le rock’n’roll’ on the youth of France? By Emma Beddington

Some seven million French people watched live broadcasts of the funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II last week, showing a fascination with the British monarchy that might seem surprising in the country of the Revolution. But the idea of the monarchy has never disappeared in France.

The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

Wartime leader survived most serious of many assassination attempts 60 years ago in Paris suburb

Top French officials, including French President Charles de Gaulle, sought to conduct atmospheric nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara following the former French colony’s independence in 1962. These plans, described in recently declassified French documents, never came to fruition. If they had, they would have violated a request made several…

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said geopolitics today requires “Nixonian flexibility” to help defuse conflicts between the U.S. and China as well as between Russia and the rest of Europe.