. After France was liberated from the Nazis in 1944, a wave of retributions swept through the country. Nazi collaborators…
When Queen Elizabeth paid France her first state visit in 1957, the manifestly Republican country welcomed her lavishly. Ceremonial parades…
Political connections are often controversial -- don't look further than Bullingdon -- and in France, a selected elite governs and…
This photo of love-struck teenagers in a cruise ship on the Seine, with a faint Eiffel Tower in the twilight distance,…
(continued from yesterday) On May 21, 1981, eleven days after his election, Francois Mitterrand officially took office as the French…
"Is photography art?" These days, we don't normally question photography's status as art, but back in the middle of…
Many world leaders claimed credit for tearing down the Berlin Wall metaphorically and thus ending the Cold War. Last year,…
No other issue divided France and other European countries more intensely in the last years of the 19th century than…
André Zucca was the only photographer to take colour photographs of Paris during the occupation. After working as a war…
On 13th May 1932, Radical Paul Doumer defeated the pacifist Aristide Briand in the second round of French Presidential elections.…