Michel Drucker: Veteran TV host who has dominated French screens for decades TV's 'Mr Nice Guy''s illustrious career spans 60 years and that calamitous 1986 interview with Whitney Houston and Serge Gainsbourg…
Yves Saint Laurent: the French designer who changed the fashion industry From smoking jackets to safari-style trouser suits, fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent blurred gender boundaries with his flattering, fabulous prêt-a-porter collections for women
Profile: Mazarine Pingeot, Mitterrand's love child - and where is she now? To avoid a national scandal, the identity of former French president François Mitterrand’s illegitimate child was a state secret until 1994 – and she was never publicly acknowledged by her father
magazine Profile: Rémi Gaillard, master prankster and the French 'Dom Joly' The internet trickster has had French audiences howling with laughter for more than two decades
Right-wing TV news channel CNews becomes most popular in France Audience figures for CNews - the French version of Fox News in the US and the UK’s GB News - beat mainstream rivals over monthly period for the first time
Charles Aznavour: Grit and self-belief made the ‘French Frank Sinatra’ How the diminutive French singer went from poverty to stratospheric fame across the globe
Barbara: The elfin singer, actress and French national treasure An abuse survivor who forged a successful showbiz career despite remaining virtually unknown outside France
Alain Delon: French cinema legend dogged by scandal and family feud We look back at the 88-year-old film star’s colourful life, on and off screen
US president Thomas Jefferson’s French wine tour has lasting legacy The third President of the United States wanted an American wine industry to compete with the ‘debauchery’ of whisky
Hacker, peep shows, jail: the story of a French tech billionaire Artificial intelligence is the next realm to be conquered in legendary tycoon Xavier Niel’s colourful career
The French couple who loved, lived and died studying volcanoes When scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft died on an erupting volcano they left a legacy of research that saves lives today
Marguerite Durand: the force of France’s first feminist journalist The 19th-century former actress founded a daily newspaper written and produced entirely by women
Mimie Mathy: French TV star who turned disability into a driving force She may be virtually unknown outside of France but outspoken Mimie continues to be one of the country’s best-loved actresses
Frédéric Chopin: the short life of a musical genius We discover the man behind the piano compositions - a child prodigy, Polish émigré and an unconventional love life $193bn: how did this French businessman get so rich? From Nazi war camp survivor to fêted anti-poverty campaigner in France Simone Veil: a force for good, for women, for France, for all
The man behind the French film classic ‘Jean de Florette’ Marcel Pagnol told extraordinary stories about ordinary people against the backdrop of his beloved Provençal countryside How a French watchmaker became the father of modern stage magic High kicks and tragedy – the Irish woman behind Paris’ Bluebell Girls Profile: the daredevil French aviator who started a political party The female French spy who saved more than a thousand British soldiers Jules Verne: the hidden story of France’s first science fiction writer
Meet Eugénie Brazier - France’s first six Michelin star chef From working on the family farm, ‘Mère Brazier’ went on to make simple, Lyonnais cooking world class. We discover her life, recipes and legacy
Ken Follett: I love France but I couldn’t be an expat there The multiple best-selling author tried living in France after his first big success but left after three years as he missed the “all the sort of pleasures of life in London”. Yet, there was a more fundamental reason
Sex, lies and spies: the mystery of Marthe Richard Samantha David examines the rollercoaster life of the woman born Marthe Betenfeld, who rose from humble Lorraine beginnings via life as a Paris prostitute, to become a pilot, spy, politician and, eventually, law-changer
Marie Curie, the life-saver driven by discovery Samantha David assesses the extraordinary working life and legacy of the Polish-born, French naturalised scientist
Meet Cora Millet-Robinet, France's Mrs Beeton Tom Jaine assesses the impact and legacy of France’s original domestic goddess
Profile: Simone Veil Auschwitz survivor, human rights champion, key European politician and Académie Française immortelle