French schools are meant to promote secular, republican values, but their conformism is stifling pupils

As sexual politics hits the headlines in France, Lucy Wadham considers why the mystique of the French woman holds such enduring appeal

If you want to understand French women's sympathy for DSK, suggests Lucy Wadham, just watch Madmen

The collective French desire to be dominated by a strong, libidinous male explains Nicholas Sarkozy's mysterious power

The French do mass demonstration very well. The manif is the closest this lapsed Catholic society gets to the rapture of Mass

The French used to see a person's private life as sacred. But now Anglo-Saxon "transparency" is taking over