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Profile: French scientist Didier Raoult banned from practising medicine

The self-declared 'maverick' microbiologist who promoted a discredited Covid drug, faces a two-year professional suspension

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

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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

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

Simone Veil: a force for good, for women, for France, for all

We reveal how this formidable woman used her political career to fight for the underdog

Jules Verne: the hidden story of France’s first science fiction writer

Family turmoil, ill health and hurtful rejection by literary peers plagued a life that was still full of travel and adventure

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

Eiffel’s long and eventful life and career

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