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Eco activist Yannick Jadot savaged the government for failing to ban glyphosate and buckling under to the agro-chemical lobby but such direct challenges are normal for a man who led Greenpeace campaigns against nuclear arms. The Europe Ecologie MEP tells Samantha David of the need for a green society that makes everyday life better

Jacqueline Yallop lived the French rural dream rearing pigs then wrote a book about it. The author told Jane Hanks about how her porcine passion changed the way she looked at both farming and food 

The first biography of President Emmanuel Macron in English has been published, based on interviews with his friends, colleagues and political advisors and reporting from election rallies. Oliver Rowland spoke to its author ADAM PLOWRIGHT, a former deputy editor at a French news agency, about Mr Macron’s style and chances of lasting success

Samantha David assesses the extraordinary working life and legacy of the Polish-born, French naturalised scientist

Marion Montaigne uses comic books to address weighty matters for her teenage readership

Award-winning journalist Fiona Barton reveals she planned to put writing on the backburner when she and her husband moved to France

The SNCF’s new spokesman and strategic planning chief Mathias Vicherat is the brains behind a rebranding of the TGV service as ‘inOui’ - he told Connexion the reasons and what else the company will do to improve its services in coming years

Katia Lteif Ward takes delicious gateaux to another dimension with her fantastic designs

Marine Le Pen may be more politically acceptable as they leader of France's far-right party than her father but how different is she?

Arch-socialist, scheming opportunist, unapologetic womaniser – former president François Mitterrand continues to divide opinion 20 years after his death. Damien Black examines the faceted life of a great statesman