At the time of the election campaign, France had a divided government, with a right-wing Gaullist president, Jacques Chirac, elected in 1995, and a Socialist Party majority in parliament ...

PM Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac have today declared their determination to combat international terrorism in the aftermath of the suicide bomb attacks on British targets in Istanbul.

French president Jacques Chirac was almost killed in the Concorde crash in Paris in July 2000, a new book claims. On that day, the burning Air France Concorde passed within seven yards of an Air ...

The latest trial for Nicolas Sarkozy kicked off Monday in Paris, roughly a month after his conviction for corruption and influence peddling was upheld. Experts say the case could reinforce the ...

Former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has joined the ranks of those warning against escalation with Algeria, led by ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal trouble in France, where Holocaust denial is illegal.

Jean-Marie Le Pen,, the leader of the French Front National (FN) from 1972 to 2011, who has died aged 96, appeared for many years as a rumbustious, rackety and outrageous figure on the margins of ...

The founder of France's National Rally party, and father of Marine Le Pen, pioneered Trump-style populist, anti-immigrant politics.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism, has died.

But Sarkozy is tainted by a number of unwanted firsts: while former French president and his mentor Jacques Chirac was also convicted of graft, Sarkozy is the first French former head of state to ...

In 1974, Le Pen makes the first of six bids for president, winning just 0.74 percent of ... Le Pen sends tremors through the ...