SURPRISE has been the only predictable quality in French politics of late, and when the people of France went to the polls this week to choose a new President, they still had some surprises to offer.

EVEN the politicians in Paris seemed bemused by spring. None of the candidates for the presidency of France chose to dwell on the fact that just a year ago Paris was a city of barricades and rebel ...

The secretary-general of the Independent Republican Party, a group which is supporting the Gaullist candidate, former Premier Georges Pompidou, for the French Presidency, called yesterday on all the ...

French Presidential candidate Alain Poher said today a unilateral embargo against a single country “was unacceptable,” and that the entire issue “would have to be reexamined,” should he be elected ...