Jacques Chirac

Macron set to become the uncontested leader of Europe with German chancellor’s exit

Exit of the EU's great deal-maker raises prospect for new configurations of power

Electoral calculations weigh heavily as the French president ponders raising the retirement age

French president describes incident southern town of Tain-l’Hermitage as ‘isolated event’

Former French president accused of spending almost twice legal limit on 2012 re-election campaign

An Irishman’s Diary

Final political eclipsing for former president who has admitted he will not run again next year

Former French president found guilty of attempted bribery and influence peddling

Former French president, up on corruption charges, expects to be ‘cleansed of infamy’

Trial could be a humiliating postscript to a political career tainted by a litany of legal investigations

Swiss rider wins stage 12 for Team Sunweb as Nicolas Roche plays captain’s role

Paris Letter: The French face the possibility Washington has reduced them to vassal status

The fallout from the decade of Blair and Clinton continues to shape today’s crises

For a president who won election claiming he could ‘transform’ France, Emmanuel Macron has a lot riding on his pension reform

Transport, schools and hospitals crippled in pension reforms stand-off with Macron

Jokes and high emotion as EU leaders step down after five turbulent years

Boris Johnson doesn’t mean what he says he might be sincere about avoiding an extension

Edouard Balladur, François Léotard and Nicolas Sarkozy are involved in Karachi trial

Putin and Clinton among dignitaries at funeral Mass for former president

Poised to take helm at ECB, French role model has talent for right place at right time

As US and French presidents make effort get along Vladimir Putin’s absence widely noted

French president’s ‘contemptuousness’ raised during meeting with 600 mayors

France and Germany have ‘obligation not to let the world slip into chaos,’ president says

World View: Paris at last starts to face up to state’s torture and murder in Algerian war

President’s admission France killed activist Maurice Audin provokes outcry from right

French team stages victory parade down the Champs-Élysées and visits presidential palace

Hague Letter: US, Britain and France failed to support UN peacekeepers by air

‘Sometimes words are harder than blows. When he said it for the third time, I reacted’

Thousands take part in demonstrations but labour movement split over Macron reforms

Unions accuse Edouard Philippe of arrogance and warn further strikes to go ahead

Railway traffic widely disrupted as unions to strike in two-day waves over three months

Phone taps of French ex-president allegedly reveal plan to bribe prosecutor and influence inquiry

Brexit has shone an unflattering light on Dublin’s relationship-building skills

The tag ‘président des riches’ has stuck in a country that invented the guillotine

For Merkel, ‘Macron arrived just in time, like Zorro’, says chancellor’s biographer

French president denounces labour reform critics as ‘slackers’ ahead of mass rallies

President still has more cause for optimism than the rivals he left in his wake

Video from Croke Park released by U2 shows the Air Corp’s four-plane flyover

Fall of 10 percentage points the biggest decline for a new president since 1995

French president tells Israeli PM ‘anti-zionism is the reinvented form of anti-Semitism’