A no-confidence vote in the French Parliament on Wednesday triggered the collapse of the government, plunging the country into political chaos and stoking anxiety about the euro zone’s second ...

Whether the fascist Marine Le Pen wins or loses in the second round of the French presidential elections on 7 May, the first round produced a profound upheaval in the country’s political landscape.

The current constitution, that of what is known as the Fifth Republic, dates from 1958, when an attempted putsch by several French generals in Algiers effectively brought Charles de Gaulle to ...

Across the country, millions have gathered in periodic protests to defend one of the crown jewels of the French welfare model: the pension system.

Keeping Marine Le Pen’s far right party from power in the French legislative election is one thing. How this new unwieldy and misshapen parliament will govern, is another, writes Marie Le Conte.

Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s administration becomes the shortest-serving government in the modern French republic and the first in six decades to be toppled by a no-confidence vote.

Playwright Joshua Harmon performs an absorbing and deeply dramatic balancing act with “Prayer for the French Republic,” now at the Huntington Theatre Company (through Oct. 8), toggling ...

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