PARIS: An Africa-France summit opens in Nice on Monday after organizers drew up a guest list that leaves some disgraced leaders out in the cold while still inviting a few junta chiefs to the party.
President Nicolas Sarkozy will be playing host (...)
PARIS: President Nicolas Sarkozy will host his first Africa summit next week, joined by some 40 leaders in the Riviera city of Nice as France seeks to salvage its dwindling clout on the continent.
Among Africa's heavy hitters at the two-day (...)
Historians know him as the Sun King who ruled France for 72 years and made Versailles a European center of power, but Louis XIV owes his royal grandeur to artists perhaps more than armies.
The first large-scale exhibition devoted to Louis XIV at (...)
The French government s backing for Roman Polanski triggered unease on Tuesday as dissenting voices said the convicted fugitive sex offender should answer for his crime.
Government ministers and much of the France s cultural elite have rushed to (...)
