Raymond (French studies, U. of Bristol, England) traces how the destiny of the party is woven into the evolution of French society as a whole, especially during the life of the Fifth Republic since th
From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, to Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo, to Albert Cam
From his beginnings as a figure on the political stage, Nicolas Sarkozy failed to conform to traditional expectations, either in his personality or a political actions. Unlike previous Presidents such
France and Britain are traditionally perceived as having divergent attitudes to the issue of minority identities. In France the idea that a person can be both a French citizen and have an ethnic or re
