Marine Le Pen won the French elections after all. The new government of Michel Barnier has no working majority in parliament.

The largest bloc is a loose left-wing alliance calling itself the New Popular Front (NFP in the French acronym), and the ...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier succeeded in forming a government after long negotiations, but its days are already ...

Badinter said later he had "never felt so lonely" in fighting capital punishment, which in France was carried out by beheading with the guillotine – a practice dating back to the French ...

Light as air and as French as the guillotine. One impeccable croissant ... to the upheavals brought on by climate change commitments, to France's almost religious devotion to certain culinary ...

Although it is an unlikely weapon, the “flying guillotine” was a big hit with martial arts fans when it featured in the eponymous film The Flying Guillotine in 1975. The gruesome invention ...

Ten monumental golden statues representing French women from the worlds of art, literature, sport and politics are shortly to ...

France, only 7 years earlier, was under German occupation and consequently banned all American cinema. When the war ended, French movie theaters began screening a plethora of never-before-seen ...

The leftist France Unbowed party has called for popular demonstrations on September 7, with leaders from the Socialist and Communist parties also saying they would take to the streets in protest.

Eight weeks after the snap elections triggered by the dissolution of the Assemblée Nationale, France finds itself in an unprecedented and dangerous political situation. Neither Macron's prolonged ...

Almost eight weeks after an inconclusive legislative vote, France is still struggling to put together a new government. In other European countries, used to stitching together painstaking ...

The second time the Eiffel Tower was almost destroyed was during the German occupation of France during World War II. Hitler planned to get rid of the tower, but never ended up going through with ...