US billionaire to loan three paintings to Dublin exhibition he financed research for

David Cameron, François Hollande, Michael D Higgins and Prince Charles lead tributes

The story of one of the largest first World War battles on the Western Front is being seen in a wider context

After the hard years of the recession, a new sense of confidence is starting to return

France and the jihadists seem locked in a wrestlers’ hold, a mutual fascination and loathing which neither can escape

Hollande criticised by former president Nicolas Sarkozy for use of word ‘war’

Second World War marked the beginning of the end of France’s colonial empire

Claims French soldiers sexually abusing children in Central African Republic

Assailant had tried to reach jihad in Syria, writes Lara Marlowe

France unveils measures two weeks after Paris attacks, including €725m in new spending

A young sailor from Ringsend was the first Irish casualty of the Great War

An ‘Irish Independent’ article highlights the French army’s lack of preparedness for a war with Germany

Queues at polling stations despite heavy security and mortar fire

Central Africans are convinced that Paris imposes everything in beleaguered CAR

No novelist would dare dream up the Dreyfus affair, the spy scandal that engulfed France, but the author of ‘Fatherland’, ‘Enigma’ and ‘Ghost’ effectively tells its story in his new book, ‘An Officer and a Spy’

Self-taught tactician drove French and American forces out of Vietnam

With his new series, Oliver Stone wants to revise the accepted version of American history. It’s controversial, unapologetic and, says the director, the culmination of a lifetime’s work