France's Chirac decorates Clint Eastwood
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French President Jacques Chirac inducted American actor-director Clint Eastwood into the Legion of Honor on Saturday, saying he represents "the best of Hollywood."
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President Nicolas Sarkozy has returned from his summer vacation with a golden tan but somewhat sapped of his superstar glow.
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French President Jacques Chirac, cast aside his political differences with America to decorate the US filmmaker behind such cinematic greats as Jaws and ET.
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WASHINGTON  - Clint Eastwood is the inaugural recipient of the Motion Picture Association of America's Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award, the trade association announced Thursday.
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Director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio receive France's highest cultural honours.
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French President Jacques Chirac, right, poses with Iraq&#39;s new ambassador to France Mouaffak Al Medhi Aboud Al Hmoudi during a ceremony of credentials at the Elysee Palace, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004.
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France's popular president leads national day celebrations with several breaks with tradition.
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CARMEL, California  - When Clint Eastwood calls, even the biggest celebrities are happy to oblige, giving the actor an especially strong pull in putting together high-profile projects.
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French President Jacques Chirac, who vowed to forge a "true partnership" with Libya, wrapped up the latest top-level Western visit to Tripoli as it returns from years in the diplomatic wilderness.
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French President Jacques Chirac bestowed the country&#39;s highest honour on director Steven Spielberg at a star-studded ceremony in Paris on Sunday.
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French President Jacques Chirac began an Asian tour with a lightning visit to Singapore, where terrorism and a potential billion-dollar jet fighter contract were hot topics of his discussions with the city-state's leaders.
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PARIS -- France's president, Jacques Chirac, finally phoned George W. Bush yesterday to congratulate him a week after his reelection as US president, and Chirac's foreign minister, Michel Barnier, called for better trans-Atlantic ties.
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Hollywood star George Clooney is honoured by the French government for his achievements in cinema.
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LONDON  - Queen Elizabeth has booked a gala performance of the blockbuster musical Les Miserables at Windsor Castle next month to entertain French President Jacques Chirac, who will be in Britain to mark the centenary of an Anglo-French friendship treaty.
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IN HIM France gave the world one of the major figures of the intellectual life of our times, announced Jacques Chirac, the French president, on the day after Jacques Derrida's death.
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French President Jacques Chirac welcomes  his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday at a time when  Russia is showing growing willingness to use booming oil and  gas revenues to boost its global economic clout.
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Clint Eastwood is the  inaugural recipient of the Motion Picture Association of  America's Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award, the trade  association announced Thursday.