Ségolène Royal tried yesterday to breathe life into her troubled campaign for the French presidency when she finally unveiled the policies she hopes will see her succeed Jacques Chirac in May. After ...

A long-forgotten episode in the life of Ségolène Royal, the leading French presidential contender, can be revealed today. At the age of 18, she was a successful and popular au pair in Dublin. Mme ...

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, a member of France’s right-wing UMP party and candidate for Paris’ 2014 mayoral elections, kicked off International Women’s Day on Friday in a cloud of controversy after ...

Ségolène Royal's campaign to become France's first woman president has taken an unexpectedly personal turn with a series of uncomfortable revelations about her family and private life. Her ...

In these times of gloom and doom in France, where pessimism called here "declinism" prevails left, right and centre, only two personalities still seem to appeal to voters: Nicolas Sarkozy, the ...

French politicians rarely throw in the towel, even after the most crushing and humiliating of defeats. Instead, they mostly spend their time in the political wilderness busily plotting their return to ...

Ségolène Royal, the mother of French President François Hollande’s four children, made a rare visit to New York this week. Royal, who serves Hollande as his minister for ecology, sustainable ...

That France’s Socialist Party (PS) has long been divided to the point of dysfunctionality is not exactly a secret. Yet no one thought the flummoxed party was ready to prove itself the Florida of ...

When an English-speaking politician loses an election, he or she usually leaves public life. Not in France, where politicians appear to be indestructible. Take Ségolène Royal, for example. Royal was ...