France's prime minister has called for quick tax cuts to respond to the anger expressed through yellow vest protests across the country.

The pop historian Éric Zemmour has fashioned himself as an evangelist of French culture — and has become a driving force for French conservatism, writes Elisabeth Zerofsky.

What has happened to France, the nation to whom the world has looked for rational thought and which gave us Descartes, who declared: “I think, therefore I am”?

Yellow Vest protesters say they will not stop until the Taoiseach has resigned and a general election is called.