France

Elite athletes like Simone Biles and Greg Louganis spend years training their bodies, brains and vision to give peak Olympic performances

As we head into the Paris Olympics, has the dream been compromised, even ruined, by other upheavals in France’s fevered summer?

All societies make agreements, so contract law is the perfect site to discover intercultural, cross-generational notions of justice

Due to longstanding ethnic and political divisions, New Caledonia is caught in a new round of geopolitics and its referendum outcome is unlikely to please everyone

Why do the French elections matter to Australia? More now due to new challenges to France’s commitment alongside Australia in the fraught geo-politics of the Indo-Pacific

The fire that struck the 850-year-old Notre Dame cathedral has devastated Parisians, and many around the world, but the building has long withstood violence whether revolution or war

The ‘Yellow Vest’ protestors in France are writing out books of grievances just like their forbears from the 1789 revolution in what is a critical challenge for President Macron

Humour was a safety valve for trench-bound soldiers during the First World War and the language of the enemy was prime fodder, journals reveal

President Macron’s young party has won an overall majority in the French parliament, but with relatively low voter turnout their mandate for radical change isn’t absolute

The election of centrist Emmanuel Macron as the new French president can be seen as an endorsement of the European Union