By Sam Tabahriti March 23 (Reuters) - At 8 p.m. on April 21, 2002, voters learned the shock first-round results of France’s ...

Jospin proved the canary in the coal mine for the far-right rise in France. He was the first center-left presidential candidate to finish behind Jean-Marie Le Pen but rallied his supporters to his ...

Former French President Jacques Chirac, known for a carefully crafted "everyman" image but whose later years were dogged by allegations of corruption, has died at the age of 86.News of his death was ...

NEW ORLEANS — Jacques Chirac, the former president of France who died Thursday, spent time in New Orleans in the 1950s while researching a thesis on the port. Chirac, who served two terms in office as ...