Over the course of three days in November 2024, the British photographer took a series of photographs, now compiled in a new publication. They defy any recognizable time and are constructed out of a strange sense of permanence
The leader of the far-left party La France Insoumise, who launched his campaign last Sunday in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, is the only clear candidate right now for the 2027 French presidential election
Red Star, in the old working-class suburb of Saint-Ouen, is the capital’s oldest club and a countercultural stronghold in an era of globalized soccer
A community seduced by nostalgia defies stereotypes, attracts followers on social networks and has become a money machine for a brand that is increasingly banking on them
Mark Rutte urges European allies to take on more of their own defense burden: ‘This excessive dependence must end’
The reopening of the funereal monument and the publication of Félix Nadar’s photo book of its depths returns the French capital to a debate over tourism at the site, and the reason why it was constructed in the first place
Bally Bagayoko, the son of a family of Malian origin and a member of La France Insoumise, swept the first round of the municipal elections and unleashed a wave of racism in the French right-wing media
Five million residents registered for an initial sale, but few had access to reasonably priced tickets: they were either unavailable or cost thousands of dollars
Trump attributes the lack of an agreement in Islamabad primarily to Tehran’s refusal to comply with this demand, which the Islamic Republic considers a ‘sovereign right’
New York’s MoMA is offering the largest retrospective of the French-American artist in the US since 1973, with 300 works ranging from Impressionism to Post-Industrial Art
La Cavalerie, a club located on the seventh floor of a listed building next to the Eiffel Tower, is one of the best-kept secrets of the French capital
The ‘Fraternity of Metaphors’ exhibition brings together more than 300 exhibits at La Virreina in Barcelona on the filmmaker and the influence on his work of armed conflict in places like Spain, Palestine and Bosnia
The left fears losing the city after 25 years in power while tension between extremist groups remains high ahead of Sunday’s local elections
The award-winning and controversial author of ‘The Elementary Particles’ surprises fans with a new album due for release on Friday, as well as a series of concerts in France
The activist’s wife, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, was recently arrested amid the social unrest in the country
Legal proceedings such as those of Dominique Pelicot or Joël Le Scouarnec, the surgeon who assaulted minors for decades, demonstrate the magnitude of the problem of sexual violence and the impunity of many French criminals
For 10 years, her husband drugged her so that more than 80 men could rape her while he filmed it all. In 2022, the case came to light, and two years later, Mr Pelicot and 50 of his attackers were convicted in a trial that Gisèle Pelicot insisted be public. The shame had to change sides. Now she tells her story in a book. We met in Paris with this lucid woman who has become a symbol of the fight against sexual violence
Hervé Le Tellier revisits the life and death of André Chaix, a young man who joined the French Resistance and died in 1944 at the age of 20, to lament the survival of fascism
The French president defends a sovereign Europe in the face of Trump’s attacks and a landscape of ‘permanent instability’
Touching on daydreaming, field research and an oppressive family reality, artist Ed Alcock used photos, drawings and documents to reconstruct the story of his great-uncle Kendon and life in Horden, a mining town in the north of England nestled in one of the poorest areas of Europe
Part of the Ancien Régime’s fall from grace stemmed from the way Parisians communicated amongst themselves, according to historian Robert Darnton’s ‘The Revolutionary Temper’
Nostalgia for the shah’s authoritarian monarchy has grown in the shadow of an opposition without clear leaders, but it offers no alternative and enjoys no real support in Iran, according to experts
While the United States drives away its brightest minds, China is doubling down on its investment in research, positioning itself at the forefront of an industrial transformation
The Cartier Foundation and Art Basel Paris illustrate the growing influence of private initiative in the French capital’s cultural scene. The trend is at once revitalizing the industry and threatening the role of the public sector
The French leader warns in a speech to the country’s ambassadors that the United States is ‘breaking international rules’, and asks them not to submit to ‘vassalage’
The movement was born during the groundbreaking Paris Exhibition of 1925 as a luxurious response to the success of the German Bauhaus. One hundred years later, its prices keep breaking records
The British researcher is calling for global regulations to test extreme measures against climate change, such as marine cloud brightening over the Arctic
