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Patrick Smyth: French left facing unpalatable choices

‘The tension between the republican, secular state, caricatured as Paris and its elites vs rural France, is very much alive in its politics and daily life’

French energy utility EDF moves to end workers’ 10 weeks’ annual holidays

State-owned utilities offering employees once-off €10,000 to reduce holidays

History avenges France’s famous outcast empress Josephine de Beauharnais

An exhibition in Paris celebrates the woman Napoleon divorced because she could not bear children

Hollande caught between Pantheon and a hard place

The French president’s comment on the need to honour women heroes has created a dilemma

Second Houses – What they do elsewhere

French senate a regular irritant to presidents

France struggles to take hordes of jobless youth under bloated administrative wing of the state

Schemes to target socially challenged areas with jobs seem to be having limited success

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