Contemporaries are denied that temporal advantage; we cannot predict the Fifth Republic’s fate. But we can assess its chances of survival. Some say modern French history is the story of coming ...

Yet under the French Fifth Republic, introduced by Charles de Gaulle in 1958, until this year the French had never re-elected a sitting president who had a parliamentary majority. Why is it so ...

Not since the Fourth Republic has French politics been in such flux. Following June’s reckless dissolution of the National Assembly, presidential authority has withered, parliament is in ...

A city council member, Shannon Seban, of Rosny-sous-Bois — a suburb of Paris — tells The New York Sun that the ban of Marine Le Pen from running for the presidency of the Fifth Republic is a ... a ...

“This judgement will further polarize French society, which is already divided and which ... that France is living through “the greatest political crisis of the Fifth Republic.” “Never has a President ...

Its current constitutional regime, the Fifth Republic, was ushered into being in 1958 by Charles de Gaulle, hero of the Free French resistance during World War II. The sixty-seven-year-old ...

those millions of French voters are adrift and angry. France is a democracy governed by the rule of law, as the verdict demonstrated. But it is unclear how far its troubled Fifth Republic can ...