Dominique Strauss Kahn

The French celebrity public intellectual on Brexit, his enemies and changing the world

The former film mogul, facing a landmark trial, has recruited a tough new legal team

The painter fell in and out of favour with critics. A new exhibition shows his continuing relevance

The party of Mitterrand and Jaurès is set to lose 90% of its nearly 300 seats

She's been called a ‘cougar’, but the 64-year-old is poised to become France’s first lady

No sentence for IMF head for failure to oppose €403m payment to Bernard Tapie

IMF head unflustered despite accusation of negligence over state’s €400m arbitration

Sarkozy alleged to have put pressure on Lagarde to approve award for Bernard Tapie

EELV member Denis Baupin accused of sexual aggression and harassment

British chancellor of the exchequer offers his backing to current IMF head

Paris prosecutor opened inquiry after businessman who lost €500,000 filed a lawsuit

Moroccan author Leila Slimani has taken a bold step in writing about a bored woman addicted to sex at a time when publishers in the region expect her to ‘describe sand dunes and camels’, and women's sexuality is an explosive topic in her country and the wider Muslim world

It’s taken 10 years but the former partner of Francois Hollande is once again combative, energetic and engaged at the heart of French politics

Left and right at loggerheads in National Assembly over Greek crisis

Lagarde and others uninhibited in warning Greeks they will be cast out from respectable company

Finance official’s 380 page submission says AIB and BOI wanted broad bank guarantee