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Franco-Lebanese writer is new guardian of the French language

‘The Immortals’ have spoken. Amin Maalouf elected the 32nd ‘perpetual secretary’ of the historic Académie française, the French watchdog of linguistic probity

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

Much-admired French environmentalist Pierre Rabhi dies age 83

Tributes have begun to pour in for the farmer, writer and environmental campaigner, who died yesterday

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French sci-fi writers imagine future wars so the army can prepare

The aim of the ‘red team’ of 10 writers is to come up with ideas that soldiers would not have thought of, says the Armies Ministry

Saint-Exupéry and ‘mystery American’ letters sold in Paris

Original letters between famous French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and a "mystery" American woman - with whom he is suspected to have had an affair - have gone on sale in Paris.

Lockdown lives: I'm missing launch of my debut novel

Mum of five, journalist - and, now, novelist - Gillian Harvey finds a silver lining in confinement

Calling budding writers and artists of all ages

Hurry to enter our new challenge - the deadline is April 30! Fun for all the family. Write, draw, sketch, scribble away...

Life and times of ‘world’s first’ radical feminist

The Connexion celebrates one of France’s inspirational intellectual figures, who helped shape a global shift in political thinking in the Sixties and Seventies, but who is still defined by her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre...

Petit Prince writer’s château bought by French region

The childhood château of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of much-loved French book Le Petit Prince , has been bought by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, for a €30 million project.

Entry time for festival’s new literary competition

Budding writers might like to take part in a writing competition organised by the Charroux Literary Festival Association.

Unorthodox literary heroine 19th-century France needed

The extraordinary, liberated, freewheeling, cross-dressing, and affair-ridden life and times of noted novelist George Sand would have made a book in its own right. The Connexion finds out more...

In France, great writers are feted - and read

This is a hard winter: hard in France, where the president appears reduced to going on his knees before his electorate to ward off anarchy; and hard for Britons living in France, watching the dishonesty and incompetence of Westminster politicians in providing anything approaching leadership with respect to Britain’s future relationship – if any – with the European Union. It is at such times that one searches for consolation.

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Franco-Lebanese writer is new guardian of the French language

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

Much-admired French environmentalist Pierre Rabhi dies age 83

French sci-fi writers imagine future wars so the army can prepare

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