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    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      House & Home
      House museums #2: Musée Édith Piaf, Paris

      Two small rooms are crammed with artefacts from the life of one of France’s greatest popular singers

      2 hours ago
    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      FT MagazineSimon Kuper
      Retiring at 62? The French have it absolutely right

      I used to take the standard Anglo-Saxon view that the French should get with reality. I’ve changed

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      ORPEA
      Scandal-hit care home group Orpea reaches deal to restructure debt pile

      French financial group Caisse des Depots & Consignations takes stake as part of recovery from scandal over mistreatment of residents

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Global InsightLeila Abboud
      Blame the billionaires? French left protests against Macron’s pension reform

      Leftwing critics target Bernard Arnault, the world’s richest man, arguing that raising the retirement age is unfair

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Italy to join forces with France in supplying air defences to Ukraine

      Defence minister Guido Crosetto says ‘Ukraine and our allies will be happy’

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      France open to sending fighter jets to Ukraine

      President Emmanuel Macron says ‘nothing is excluded’ after US rules out supplying F-16s

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      InterviewFilm
      Alice Diop on her film Saint Omer: ‘It questions the complexity of the maternal bond’

      The director discusses dramatising the trial of a woman who left her child to die — and why it reflects ‘a very French form of racism’

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      European banks
      French banks set to lose out on rising rates due to loan repricing rules

      Bumper profits expected across Europe but local conditions in France are limiting its lenders

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      Travelista
      Four cultural spots to hit this spring

      Pack your bags for everything, from hip-hop in Manhattan to Vermeer in Amsterdam or Hepworth in St Ives

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Parisian Days by Banine — model citizen

      Swept along by revolutionary forces, the young émigré seeks to realise her dreams of ‘freedom and fantasy’ in 1920s France

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso orders French troops to leave the country

      Military junta says domestic forces will defend against Islamists amid claims of ties to Russia

    • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
      French politics
      Macron and Scholz meet in bid to improve strained relations

      German and French leaders pledge to strengthen EU and continue to back Ukraine

    • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
      Architecture
      The rebirth of Notre-Dame: from ashes of lead to ‘symbol of hope’

      Paris cathedral on track to reopen late next year after a fire devastated the Gothic masterpiece

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Macron to boost French defence spending in response to Ukraine war

      Military budget increase aims to bring France in line with Nato spending commitments

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      French politics
      French transport and schools hit by strikes against pension reform

      Unions oppose President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to raise retirement age from 62 to 64

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      HTSI
      What’s the bid for this rarest of Bugattis?

      One of three surviving Atalante Coupés, the ultimate getaway car is up for auction

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Special ReportThriving Cities
      Greener together: Grenoble calls on citizens to set climate goals

      The French city sees grassroots involvement in policymaking as crucial to its environmental strategy

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      Sylvie Kauffmann
      Hyperactive abroad, Emmanuel Macron is struggling at home

      The French president is once more running into problems over pension reform

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      Five time capsules of interior designer Raphael Navot’s personal Paris

      The Israeli-born designer takes us to the places that for him have long been the very essence of the City of Light

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Restaurants
      ‘Baroque’ approach to fine dining ends as chefs rein in excessive creations

      Recruitment challenges, higher costs and consumers’ limited spending power are driving change at top-end restaurants

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      UK foreign policy
      Sunak and Macron to attend first UK-France summit for five years

      Two leaders will use meeting to foster co-operation on security and migration after period of frosty relations

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Europe Express
      Macron labours through test of his reform agenda as tougher trials loom Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: the underwhelming list of reforms aimed at tackling corruption in the European parliament

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Emmanuel Macron’s indispensable pensions overhaul

      Raising the retirement age is necessary but fraught with political challenges

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      French politics
      Macron government unveils plans to raise French retirement age to 64

      Prime minister Élisabeth Borne seeks to assuage union anger at reforms by vowing to increase minimum pension

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      ReviewDance
      New generation takes on France’s longest-running hip-hop dance festival

      Suresnes Cités Danse had plenty of premieres, including rising star Mehdi Kerkouche’s ‘Portrait’

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