The case of L'Oréal heiress, Liliane Bettencourt, has enraptured France and forced Nicolas Sarkozy into the spotlight.

A thin-skinned Nicolas Sarkozy takes on the press.

Some true believers welcomed the Georgian president in the French capital. There were not so many of them.

America, we are told, will finally set an example to the world.

Is Barack Hussein Obama a latter day American François Mitterrand ?

Paris is just in love with the Democratic candidate.

Being a French journalist means never having to say you're sorry.

A triumphant 36 hours in Britain for the pro-Nato French president and his glamorous Italian wife.

Anyone who discounts Nicolas Sarkozy as a lame-duck president is missing the point.

The son of a Hungarian immigrant and a barrister by profession, Sarkozy is naturally more inclined to produce fresh approaches than the average members of the inbred French elite.