Agnes Poirier

Women's Rights30 Apr 2017 14:06 GMT

The far-right leader is using her gender to give the National Front a veneer of respectability and modernity.

Arts & Culture10 May 2016 09:29 GMT

Intimacy meets politics at this year's film festival at Cannes.

Human Rights06 Jan 2016 08:43 GMT

Most of France supports the limitations on their liberties in the fight against terrorism - for now.

Politics09 Dec 2015 12:02 GMT

National Front's cunning rhetoric is working if French voters now trust Marine Le Pen to keep them safe from terror.

War & Conflict16 Nov 2015 09:01 GMT

Will France now treat Frenchmen ready to blow themselves up as traitors, or continue seeing them as lost children?

Arts & Culture26 May 2015 11:36 GMT

This year's Cannes showed us a world where redemption has become an old forgotten concept.

Arts & Culture13 May 2015 12:45 GMT

Cannes has always been a place where the greatest art meets the biggest market.

Arts & Culture19 Nov 2014 13:09 GMT

You may be able to convince Londoners that a flashy new tower in the city is a good thing - but not

Human Rights25 Sep 2014 07:01 GMT

France's beloved balladeer, after 70 years of exporting nostalgia and Gallic charm, now advocates fo

Poverty & Development09 Sep 2014 11:49 GMT

In seeking to settle accounts with her ex-lover, has Valerie Trierweiler also damaged French democra

Politics03 Jul 2014 10:19 GMT

After Chirac and Strauss-Kahn, Sarkozy is the latest French politician embroiled in a scandal.

Arts & Culture26 May 2014 05:34 GMT

Turkish film bags Palme d'Or award and Ankara's congratulations. But was it a metaphor for the country's social malaise?