French Connection

An unprecedented box office success in France, where it became the second most successful French film of all time, The Intouchables tells the...

Linda Evangelista and François-Henri Pinault reunited in Manhattan Family Court yesterday. The supermodel is seeking $46,000 a month in child support from the PPR CEO for their 5-year-old son, Augustin, and the proceedings were predictably ugly. How ugly?

By Becky Bratu msnbc.com
While American presidential campaigns seem to last for years, the French campaign only lasts a few months from start to finish.
The differences between the two systems are significant.

The EU Parliament has approved a controversial bill that will give the U.S. Department of Home Security access to airline passengers' personal information.

Listening to the rhetoric in the French presidential election makes one realize just how vast the political gulf is between France and the United States.

NEW YORK -- The director of one of France's most prestigious colleges has been found dead in a New York City hotel room.

New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne says employees at The Michelangelo hotel in Manhattan found the nude body of Richard Descoings (day-KWAHNG') on Tuesday afternoon.

Descoings served as the director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He was in his 50s.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. counterterrorism official says the man suspected in the deaths of seven people in France was on the list of known or suspected terrorists who are prohibited from flying to the United States.

Gerard Depardieu, acclaimed actor and noted plane pisser, is discussing his upcoming film based on infamous pussyhound Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Jean Dujardin is beaming with joy after winning his first ever Oscar for his performance in black and white silent French movie "The Artist" and says he has work opportunities at home, but this is the start of an American movie career for him.

FRANKFURT/PARIS (Reuters) - General Motors and PSA Peugeot Citroen are discussing a manufacturing alliance designed to stem losses in Europe and reduce production costs elsewhere,...

The Ambassador of France to the United States, Francois Delattre, honored Harvey Weinstein with the highest decoration in France first established by Napolean Bonaparte, the Légion D’Honneur.

Splash NewsDominique Strauss Kahn's motion for diplomatic immunity was rejected by a judge, The Post revealed today.

The campaign for François Hollande, a challenger in the presidential race, is using American-style techniques to find an edge with left-leaning but apathetic voters.

Strauss-Kahn’s wife has stood by him, for a simple reason: because she has married a French man, at least she will never have to say, “My name is Mrs.

It's the scene from Sunday night's "Mad Men" season premiere that has people talking: Jessica Pare as Megan, the current Mrs. Don Draper, serenades her husband at his birthday party with the sexy, slinky number "Zou Bisou Bisou" while wearing a barely there miniskirt.

Overnight, the French song was being passed around social media, mostly as a black-and-white YouTube video of the original version recorded by Gillian Hills. But Pare's 2012 cover version was available on iTunes, released at midnight. Lionsgate Television Music also released a vinyl single of the song, available for sale through AMC's website. It will eventually be available on Amazon and in stores.

Unlike in the U.S., where higher levies are a vote-killer, in France, such increases win support in the polls, more so after the European debt crisis cooled economic growth, raised jobless claims to a 12-year high and the unemployment rate to about 10 percent. An Ifop poll this month showed that 61 percent of the French are in favor of Hollande’s millionaire tax.

There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher.

That may sound obvious. But it is, in fact, key to understanding one of the most pressing problems facing our economy. In 2009, Americans spent $7,960 per person on health care. Our neighbors in Canada spent $4,808. The Germans spent $4,218. The French, $3,978. If we had the per-person costs of any of those countries, America’s deficits would vanish. Workers would have much more money in their pockets. Our economy would grow more quickly, as our exports would be more competitive.