Lionel Jospin

When the results of the first round of the presidential election were announced on Sunday night, militants from Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left party, L(...)

Extreme right-wing presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has promised “a referendum revolution” to change the French constitution because “only the peo(...)

Christiane Taubira, the former Socialist justice minister who won a so-called popular primary of the French left and environmentalists on Sunday night(...)

If there were a prize for sheer dogged indestructibility in French politics, Ségolène Royal would surely win it. The first woman to make it to the ru(...)

When an English-speaking politician loses an election, he or she usually leaves public life. Not in France, where politicians appear to be indestructi(...)

Donald Trump’s election may seem a strange place to begin to recount the French presidential campaign, but it was the moment when, in the words of Mar(...)

Both candidates for the “parties of government” that have alternated in power since 1981 failed to make it to the second round of the French president(...)

In more than 20 years as a pollster, Frédéric Dabi, the director of Ifop, France’s oldest polling company, says he has never seen anything as “unthink(...)

France’s first socialist government was elected in May 1936, against a backdrop of economic crisis, the rise of populist nationalism in France and fas(...)

Paris in the springtime. Around the tables in the country garden on this balmy evening, pals, old schoolfriends, and family celebrated last weekend on(...)