Why France lionizes the man who challenged everything
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France's pride in its thinkers was splashed all over the news in praise of Jacques Derrida, who died last weekend.
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Hailed by 40,000 delirious supporters, France&#39;s most popular politician yesterday took triumphant control of its ruling centre-right party, promising to restore battered Gallic pride with a mix of honesty, energy and new ideas.
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France's Right-wing establishment has rallied behind the former interior minister Charles Pasqua, who has come under furious attack after securing immunity from a series of criminal investigations by winning a ...
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Five years ago, France joined Europe's largest nations in a radical experiment: to try to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and improve the quality of life by having existing employees work shorter ...
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For a man belittled months ago as an obscure weakling, Jose Manuel Barroso is stirring up a lot of trouble. By stubbornly defending the
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This could have been Francois Hollande's moment of glory. As leader of France's Socialists, he could have used his powerful job as a springboard to the party's presidential nomination, just like Francois Mitterrand did in the 1980s.
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Don't choke on your freedom fries when you hear this, but France's most-popular and most-talked-about politician - and a favorite to become the next French president - is a big fan of the United States.
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In this brilliant work of history, France dissolves under close inspection into  an endless series of counterexamples to the myth of a culturally unified nation and people.
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"I'm worried about the growing attacks that France is deploying against its European allies, against the Germans, the Luxembourgers, against all of the European countries."  France faces thinly concealed and growing frustration from Paris' European partners, irked at President Nicolas Sarkozy's strident position towards EU spending limits and attacks on the ECB. via Raw Story
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Brian France has to be the happiest, most satisfied man in the sports world today. For now, France looks like a genius, a man of vision who has a firm grasp on what his sport needs to succeed.
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ONE of the darkest chapters in Franceâs past resurfaced yesterday as a notorious bugging scandal, dubbed the French Watergate, came to trial more than 20 years after FranÃ§ois Mitterrand allegedly ordered the first of more than 150 illegal phone taps.
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Come Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy will likely be one of Europe's most powerful leaders. With the government, parliament and top state bodies under his conservative camp's control, he should face little political resistance as he seeks to reshape France.
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DAKAR, Senegal  - Issa Cisse thought of himself as  French when he left Senegal to help free his colonial masters  from the grip of the Germans at the end of World War II.
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French President Jacques Chirac's announcement that he will leave frontline politics brought no end to the controversy over his record and legacy on Monday.Comment
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President Jacques Chirac passed his 72nd birthday yesterday locked in a struggle to maintain his relevance in the face of an intraparty challenge and continuing friction with the world&#39;s only superpower.
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France's involvement in Ivory Coast receives sceptical scrutiny in several papers.
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For nearly a decade, French policy toward Europe and the world has been dominated by an unspoken conclusion, one that is unspeakable for French leaders and that they exert great energy to obscure.