Agnès Poirier

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  Joan of Arc at 600: the best of role models

  6 Jan 2012:

  Agnès Poirier: As we celebrate the 600th anniversary of Joan of Arc's birth, let's remember what she stood for, because she is one of us

• The trouble is, Sarkozy does not know when he's beaten

  29 Dec 2011: Agnès Poirier: The year could not have worked out better for the president – yet he is still trailing in the polls. Will he never accept defeat?

• Sarkozy should leave the Armenian genocide to the historians

  23 Dec 2011:

  Agnès Poirier: Making it a crime to deny the genocide antagonises a useful ally in Turkey – a country founded on the French Republican model

• Can David and Victoria Beckham pass the Paris test?

  21 Dec 2011: Agnès Poirier: David Beckham is thought to be signing for Paris St-Germain FC. It's set the French capital abuzz with existentialist questions

• Intouchables – not Sarkozy – provides the narrative France needs

  17 Nov 2011: Agnès Poirier: French people are flocking to a spate of socially aware films filling the void left by Nicolas Sarkozy's divisive politics

• Garance: our lasting affair

  6 Nov 2011:

  Agnès Poirier: As a new generation can now find, the heroine of Les Enfants du Paradis isn't one you easily forget

• Socialist primaries: France's novel exercise in democracy proves a hit

  9 Oct 2011:

  Agnès Poirier: Sarkozy's team sought to rubbish it, but the Socialists' US-style selection process has already prompted valuable debate

• The fall of France's Senate could be just l'apéritif

  27 Sep 2011:

  Agnès Poirier: A forecasted majority for the leftwing opposition in France's upper house signals a split in the right that could finish Sarkozy

• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – from the outside looking in

  13 Sep 2011: Agnès Poirier: Swedish director Tomas Alfredson captures 70s Britain superbly in his new film. National psyche is often best left to foreigners

• France's tax musketeers have done the decent thing

  24 Aug 2011:

  Agnès Poirier: You told us: In volunteering to pay more tax, the 'patriotic millionaires' have set a much needed example of solidarity

• Depardieu, a true Rabelasian hero

  20 Aug 2011:

  Agnès Poirier: In France, the actor's behaviour would be called great. Maybe we just don't deserve him

• La Commune: a lesson in audacity

  1 Aug 2011: Agnès Poirier: 140 years on, we can see that although the Paris Commune was short-lived, it was a trailblazer for modern society

• France can be proud of its resistance to media deregulation

  16 Jul 2011:

  Agnès Poirier: The phone-hacking scandal has shocked the French media, used to robust state regulation and strong privacy laws

• France needs to talk about nationality

  28 Jun 2011: Agnès Poirier: A report attacking dual nationality is just one sign that something has gone awry in France – the left must stop closing its eyes

• Chirac the liberator

  13 Jun 2011: Agnès Poirier: By endorsing a Socialist, good old Jacques has shown the French right how to get rid of Sarkozy

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