Tag: Anne Hidalgo

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 07:41 UTC

  The “little Spanish girl” who has been re-elected mayor of Paris

  

  Anne Hidalgo, re-elected Paris mayor on Sunday, is a Spanish-born socialist who has waged a divisive but ambitious campaign to push cars out of the centre of the French capital. Hidalgo, 61, became in 2014 the first-ever woman to head the French capital's city hall that had once been the political springboard for late president Jacques Chirac.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 - 08:37 UTC

  Socialist Paris mayor makes Lula da Silva an honorary citizen of the city

  

  Paris city hall made Brazil’s former leader Lula da Silva an honorary citizen on Monday, in a likely blow to his political enemy President Jair Bolsonaro whose relationship with France has deteriorated. The motion to honour Lula was backed by the city’s Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Macron vows to rebuild the 850-year old Gothic Notre Dame cathedral

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to rebuild the medieval cathedral of Notre-Dame after a major fire partially destroyed the Paris landmark. Firefighters managed to save the 850-year-old Gothic building's main stone structure, including its two towers, but the spire and roof collapsed.

• Saturday, April 7th 2018 - 10:49 UTC

  The Guernsey house where Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables will be recovered by art collector

  

  A millionaire businessman has donated 3m Euros to save the home where French author Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables. The celebrated writer of The Hunchback of Notre Dame lived at Hauteville House in Guernsey from 1856 to 1870.

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 15:53 UTC

  “Black Sunday” for French Socialists, although they managed to retain Paris

  

  French President Francois Hollande is set to take the axe to his beleaguered government after it suffered humiliating losses in local elections in which the far-right National Front (FN) made historic gains.