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This Paris suburb gets a facelift amid controversy ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games

Summer Olympics 2024

Paris won the bid to host this summer’s Olympics, in part, on a promise to rejuvenate one of the country’s most notorious suburbs: Seine-Saint-Denis. But not all residents are sure the transformation will work.

Francois Fillon, member of The Republicans political party and 2017 presidential candidate of the French centre-right, attends a political rally in Charleville-Mezieres, France, February 2, 2017.

Can François Fillon still win the French presidency?

Global Politics
Paris Police

What we know about the foiled terror plot in Paris

Conflict
Speech writer Arthur Vlaminck (Raphaël Personnaz) tries to high-five French Foreign Minister Alexandre Taillard de Worms (Thierry Lhermitte) in Bertrand Tavernier’s new film, THE FRENCH MINISTER, a comedy based on the graphic novel "Weapons of Mass Diplom

Here’s how the life of a French official became the satirical film, ‘The French Minister’

Arts, Culture & Media
Speech writer Arthur Vlaminck (Raphaël Personnaz) tries to high-five French Foreign Minister Alexandre Taillard de Worms (Thierry Lhermitte) in Bertrand Tavernier’s new film, THE FRENCH MINISTER, a comedy based on the graphic novel "Weapons of Mass Diplom

Here’s how the life of a French official became the satirical film, ‘The French Minister’

Arts, Culture & Media
Julie Gayet at Deauville

What the French president’s affair and separation say about love, politics and French culture

Arts, Culture & Media

This weekend, French President François Hollande confirmed that he is separating from his partner Valérie Trierweiler. The French seemed to shrug at the news of Hollande’s affair with actress Julie Gayet, seeing love and politics as separate. But France’s neighbors and its former colonies don’t necessarily agree.