National Assembly speaker Yael Braun-Pivet is pictured with President Emmanuel Macron in Izieu, France, April 7, 2024. Braun-Pivet retained her post July 18, 2024, after three rounds of voting in ...

The National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, is deeply fractured, with no single party holding a majority. It comprises three major blocs: Macron’s centrist allies, the left-wing ...

France's national holiday celebrates the day a group of French revolutionaries seized the Bastille, a state prison and symbol of royal overreach. ... broke off and formed a national assembly.