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Bernadette Chirac, formidable former first lady of France who built power of her own, dies at 93

Bernadette Chirac, the steel-willed former first lady of France, has died. She was 93. She spent 12 years at the Élysée Palace from 1995 to 2007 beside President Jacques Chirac while building her own political power in rural Corrèze and turning a children’s hospital charity into a national instituti

 

Exclusive: Under Notre Dame cathedral, a ‘dig of the century’ unearths 1,700 years of history

Archaeologists are digging beneath Notre Dame cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago.

 

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What to know about Code Noir, a shocking French law that oversaw the slavery of 1.4 million Africans

France’s lower house has voted finally to scrub a foundational slavery-era edict from French law. The National Assembly voted 254-0 to overturn Code Noir or Black Code on Thursday.

 

France’s parliament votes to repeal slavery-era Black Code, with tears and history in the chamber

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France’s colonies.

 

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Artist JR, the ‘French Banksy’ creates a ‘cave’ installation over Paris’ oldest bridge

The oldest bridge in Paris has begun vanishing as JR — the artist known as the “French Banksy” — began inflating a giant “cave” over the Pont Neuf.

 

Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath says France is seeking to deport him

Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath says French authorities are seeking to deport him on the grounds that he is a threat to public security.

 

French prosecutors push to return Sarkozy to prison for 7 years in Libya case

French prosecutors have asked judges to sentence former President Nicolas Sarkozy to seven years in prison and fine him 300,000 euros ($330,000).

 

France confines more than 1,700 on British cruise ship in Bordeaux after gastroenteritis outbreak

French authorities have ordered over 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship to stay on board due to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak.

 

French hantavirus patient is critically ill and on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11

A doctor says a French woman being treated for hantavirus after being infected on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung.

 

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France moves aircraft carrier group toward Strait of Hormuz for possible defensive mission

France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. French President Emmanuel Macron says this is in preparation for a potential French-British mission in the Strait of Hormuz.

 

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France reckons with Nazi-looted art in a new Paris museum gallery

One of the top art museums in Paris has opened a new gallery dedicated to orphaned masterpieces plundered by the Nazis.

 

War crimes complaint filed in France over a deadly Israeli strike in Beirut

A French-Lebanese artist and the International Federation for Human Rights say they have filed a complaint in France seeking a war crimes investigation into an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Beirut in November 2024.

 

Disney’s new CEO opens World of Frozen in Paris as he showcases the empire that made him

Disneyland Paris has opened a huge new “Frozen” land as the centerpiece of a major park makeover. Disney unveiled World of Frozen on Sunday and renamed Walt Disney Studios Park as Disney Adventure World.

 

A nonprofit in France is fighting fast-fashion waste, one sneaker at a time

Hundreds of used sneakers arrive each week at a workshop east of Paris, where workers inspect them for resale, redistribution or rejection.

 

Socialist Grégoire becomes Paris mayor as the far right wins Nice in key municipal elections

Socialist candidate Emmanuel Grégoire has won the Paris mayoral race, succeeding fellow party member Anne Hidalgo as the French capital’s mayor.

 

Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu close Paris Fashion Week with competing visions of nature

Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière built a fake mountain range inside the Louvre and sent models climbing through it.

 

Margot Robbie, Oprah watch Blazy transform Chanel with color and craft

Chanel’s Matthieu Blazy is still building. Six months into his tenure at the Parisian stalwart, the designer staged his second ready-to-wear collection at Paris Fashion Week Monday, where brightly colored cranes rose from a holographic floor — a deliberate signal that the construction is ongoing.

 

Stars hit Paris runways, but fall’s real trend was dressing for hard times — and real life

Paris Fashion Week shows designers resetting big brands with clothes that match a tense, noisy world.

 

At Hermès, Nadège Vanhée turns Paris twilight into a state of mind

Guests at the Paris Hermès show didn’t just see the collection, they smelled it first. The Garde Républicaine — the grand barracks of Paris’ mounted police — had been transformed on Saturday into a forest floor, carpeted in thick, damp moss that filled the air with the heady scent of humus.

 

In Paris fashion, skin is in and celebrities rule the runways

Paris Fashion Week is delivering a forceful reminder of why it remains a capital of fashion, with blockbuster celebrity front rows, boundary-pushing design and collections that are tackling big ideas about power, craft and the female body.

 

Hushed stillness and Japanese craft at Issey Miyake’s Paris show

Sparkling dust drifted across the runway inside the Carrousel du Louvre on Friday as Issey Miyake showcased its fall and winter designs in Paris.

 

Oprah and Gayle King hobnob at Chloe’s boho blouse-focused Paris fashion show

Oprah Winfrey and her longtime friend Gayle King are among celebrities on the front row at Chloé fashion show at Paris Fashion Week.

 

Stella McCartney lets horses steal the show — and makes her point in Paris without saying a word

Ten horses — five black, five white — entered the sand ring first. The models came second. That told you everything you needed to know about Stella McCartney’s priorities at Paris Fashion Week.

 

Dior’s Jonathan Anderson finds his stride with a garden of earthly delights at Paris Fashion Week

Jonathan Anderson fall-winter 2026 collection for Dior at the Paris Fashion Week has invoked an Impressionist painting, steeped in flowers, water and the art of being seen.

 

What to know as the Louvre gets a new chief after a surprise resignation and a bruising year

After months of pressure, the Louvre has a new director. Christophe Leribault was named to lead the landmark on Wednesday, half a day after the previous director, Laurence des Cars, resigned.

 

Louvre Museum director resigns in the wake of October’s brazen French crown jewels heist

French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the resignation of the Louvre Museum’s president. Laurence des Cars had been under fire in the wake of a stunning and embarrassing heist of the French crown jewels.

 

Queen Camilla meets Gisèle Pelicot, a symbol of the fight against sexual violence

Queen Camilla told French rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot on Monday that she was left “speechless” by Pelicot’s memoir.

 

He is known as the French Banksy. Now artist JR plans to turn a Paris bridge into a massive cave

French artist JR, popular for his large-scale projects from photographs to graffiti and street art, wants Parisians to do something unusual.

 

An alleged fraud scheme at the Louvre cost the museum millions. An official says that’s inevitable

The Louvre’s No. 2 has described a more than 10 million euros ticket fraud scheme as something that was likely inevitable.

 

French prosecutor searches for victims after a man is accused of abusing 89 minors over 55 years

French authorities have revealed the identity of a 79-year-old man accused of raping and sexually assaulting 89 minors over five decades.

 

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