European fears of spillover from the Syrian war were amplified on Sunday when it emerged that a Frenchman arrested in connection with a deadly attack at a Jewish museum in Brussels last week spent much of last year with jihadist fighters in Syria. Continue reading…
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French president switches to car fit for the Queen – and her hat
François Hollande has offered the Queen the use of a bulletproof Renault Vel Satis to prevent her hats getting squashed by the lower roof of the Citroën DS5 in which the French head of state usual travels. Continue reading…
Goya etchings centrepiece of Louvre’s Disasters of War exhibition in Lens
The art critic Robert Hughes described Goya’s Disasters of War etchings as the greatest anti-war manifesto in the history of art. It is fitting, then, that as the world prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-day landings and 100 years since the start of the 1914-18 war, 15 of these Goya prints will form the centrepiece of a powerful exhibition opening on Wednesday at the Louvre’s outpost in Lens, a depressed former mining town flattened in the bombings of the first world war. Continue reading…
Manuel Valls vows no change to ‘road map’ after Front National election win
French prime minister Manuel Valls on Monday ruled out any policy change as the mainstream parties reeled from the stunning victory of the extreme-right Front National in the European elections. Continue reading…
Rogue trader Jerome Kerviel ends standoff with French justice
French rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel ended a two-day standoff with French justice on Sunday by announcing that he would walk back across the Italian border into France where police were expected to arrest him. Continue reading…
Anne Penketh 