France: Vive la difference?
All you need to know about Europe's most turbulent nation
In France
The only woman in Ealing Southall
- By Sarah Edwards
- 18 July 2007
Affordable homes are a Green priority, not endlessly cramming in new “executive” flats
What is French for "twunt"?
- By Petite Anglaise
- 09 April 2007
I have been sacked for blogging. My "slices of Paris life" aren't racy or controversial - but I did admit I might have taken a duvet day in 2005 . . .
The days of grandeur are over
- By David Lawday
- 09 April 2007
Whoever wins France's presidential elections will enjoy more power than any other western leader. Expect big changes in foreign policy, from America to Africa
France: Vive la différence?
- By Gérard Grunberg
- 09 April 2007
French voters go to the polls in two weeks in search of change but fearful of its consequences. Gérard Grunberg, who introduces our special report, wonders if any of the candidates has what it takes to lead the country out of its crisis
We don't need your foreign models
- By Jacques Attali
- 09 April 2007
Jacques Attali says France must modernise but not copy others
New Huguenots with a love of danger
- By Agnès Poirier
- 09 April 2007
Agnès Poirier explains why so many French have moved to London
Lyons: City of outsiders
- By Andrew Hussey
- 09 April 2007
Beneath the civilised, bourgeois exterior of the "gateway to the south" lie the sharpest racial and social divisions in France. By Andrew Hussey
Photographs by Nick Danziger
Lost youth
- By Frederic Niel
- 09 April 2007
Young French people are deeply frustrated by lack of opportunity and a lack of respect from their parents' generation.
The last auteur
- By Daniel Trilling
- 09 April 2007
Director Bruno Dumont talks about the decline of art-house cinema in France and explains how he doesn't "give a toss" about French viewers
Living colour
- By Dan Hancox
- 09 April 2007
TTC are the latest hip-hop sensation in Paris. French rap has got its groove back, they tell Dan Hancox
Also in France
Visceral
- By Rachid Djaïdani
- 09 April 2007
One of France's brightest literary stars, the writer and actor Rachid Djaïdani, portrays the seamy side of life in the banlieues in this exclusive extract from his new novel
Gilded youth
- By Caroline Wyatt
- 09 April 2007
Caroline Wyatt talks to French lit idol Florian Zeller about Islam, fortune-telling and his precocious success
