Interviews

Historian Dimitri Casali has launched a petition for the remains of Napoléon III to be returned to his home country. Here, he reveals more about the emperor France forgot

A YOUNG couple from Yorkshire have realised their dream of buying a barn to convert – completing the purchase in France just a month before the October 31 Brexit deadline.

British sculptor Sir Antony Gormley, best known in the UK for his Angel of the North statue, hopes to build four giant sculptures that would sit on the coast of northern France and look towards Britain.

Dame Vera Lynn became a star when her songs of wistful love and patriotism became popular in Britain during World War Two. 

Raphaël Arnaud looks back on a lifetime of protecting the world’s most endangered birds

Pascal Dauboin, of the group Oui au train de nuit, discusses the economic and environmental arguments behind renewed interest in overnight rail travel

Savin Yeatman-Eiffel, 49, is a producer, writer-director & series creator and founder of French animation company Sav! The World Productions. He is also the vice president of the Association des Descendants de Gustave Eiffel, and the great-great-great-grandson of Gustave Eiffel

A French music producer who is paralysed and mute due to the degenerative muscle motor neurone disease (MND) has released his first solo album, made completely with his eyes. Connexion spoke to his wife Wahiba Gallart.

Lib Dem MEP and staunch Remainer Catherine Bearder is taking part in a Q&A session after a showing of the film Postcards from the 48% at the Dinard Film Festival on Saturday. Connexion has interviewed her.

Banksy – the secretive England-based street art superstar – was partly inspired by Blek le Rat, real name Xavier Prou, 68. The Frenchman, who Connexion has interviewed, developed a stencilling style and adopted the rat as a “trademark” image in his art. Images of Blek's work in this article are by Sybille Prou, or supplied by Le MUR de Rennes.