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Imagine music that falls somewhere between French cabaret, classical symphony, Latin jazz and pop – and throw in a few touches of Japanese film noir, big band anthems and romantic melodrama.

In April 1937, Pablo Picasso read an article in the French Communist daily, L’Humanité, reporting that "Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basques, was completely destroyed yesterday afternoon by insurgent air raiders.

On the face of it, the results of the French presidential election appear to represent a revival of mainstream parties.

The first round of the French presidential elections last Sunday was haunted by its counterpart five years ago.

The official campaign for the French presidential elections began on Monday. The first round of voting takes place on 22 April.

In 1872 Karl Marx dashed off a letter applauding plans to publish a French edition of his book Capital in serial form.

A war crime of terrible proportions has been carried out in Africa – and hardly anyone noticed.

This week sees the British release of Days of Glory, a war film that focuses on a hidden fact of the Second World War – the contribution of hundred of thousands of North African soldiers recruited from France’s colonies, known as "indigènes" in French.

European rallies against job cuts Some 40,000 Airbus workers protested last Friday in Germany, France, Spain and Britain against plans by the European aircraft maker to cut one in ten of its workforce of 87,000.

For radicals of Karl Marx’s generation the French Revolution of 1789 was a source of inspiration which dominated their thinking.

Civil service workers, teachers and postal workers across France struck on Thursday of last week over job cuts and pay.

The Marriage of Figaro, first performed in Vienna in 1786, was a harbinger of the great French Revolution of 1789.