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18/05/2012 - Analysis: France's new president

How will Obama and Hollande get along at G8, Nato summits?

France’s new President François Hollande can expect a qualified welcome from Barack Obama when he arrives at the G8 summit at Camp David on Friday.

17/05/2012 - France's new president

New French government takes pay cut , fights for growth in Europe

France’s new, Socialist government held its first meeting Thursday with a pay cut for the president and ministers the first item on the agenda.

16/05/2012 - France - report + slideshow

Louis XIV railway carriages take to Paris-Versailles line

Possibly the most glamorous local railway carriages in the world started operating on Wednesday between Paris and Versailles.

15/05/2012 - France's new president

Hollande faces first controversy over tribute to 'racist' Jules Ferry

France’s new President François Hollande started his term in office with a homage to Jules Ferry, the 19th-century politician seen as the father of the modern French education system.

09/05/2012 - France's new president

Sarkozy bows out with grace after hard-fought election campaign

Outgoing French president Nicolas Sarkozy wished his successor, Socialist François Hollande, good luck at the last cabinet meeting of his right-wing government Wednesday.

08/05/2012 - Analysis: France's new president

Can the US work with François Hollande?

The White House on Monday said that relations with France will be unaffected by the election of Socialist François Hollande as French president.

06/05/2012 - Analysis: French presidential election campaign 2012

Why did Sarkozy lose the French presidential election?

Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday failed to win reelection as president of France.

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06/05/2012 - French presidential election campaign 2012

François Hollande elected president of France

François Hollande has been elected president of France with 51.9 per cent of the votes, according to exit polls, the first Socialist to hold the post since François Mitterrand in the ...

06/05/2012 - French presidential election campaign 2012

French vote in presidential election after last-minute Sarkozy recovery

French voters go to the polls in what is set to be a historic presidential election campaign.

05/05/2012 - France

Police find priceless paintings in Corsican carpark

Three renaissance Italian paintings and another by French old master Nicolas Poussin were found in a car park in Corsica Friday after a tip-off to magistrates investigating their theft last year ...

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