PARIS — It sounded like an April Fool’s joke. A French town toppling a bust of Marianne, the symbolic heroine of the French Revolution, because she was too … buxom? In a country where breasts have ...

French historians and political opponents heaped ridicule on France’s prime minister on Tuesday after he claimed that his country’s “bare-breasted” national symbol, Marianne, wouldn't have worn the ...

France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls has provoked an uproar in his country by citing Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic—and her bare breast—as justification for the ban of full-body swimsuits ...

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Her face is everywhere from famous artworks to postage stamps, tax bills to public buildings - but who actually is France's 'Marianne'? On Tuesday President Emmanuel Macron travelled to Dordogne to ...

France's prime minister has been accused of being a sexist 'cretin' after saying that bare breasts were a glorious representation of his troubled country. In a clumsy speech about national identity, ...

Prime Minister Manuel Valls has upset political rivals and historians by invoking the symbol of the French republic, Marianne, in the row over "burkini" beach bans. "Her breast's exposed because she's ...

This week, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls explained his opposition to full-body swimsuits and full-face veils for Muslim women by invoking France’s most iconic woman, Marianne, its Lady Liberty ...

NEWS BRIEF French Prime Minister Manuel Valls’s invocation of Marianne, the symbol of the republic, to explain his continued support for banning the burqini on French beaches has angered politicians ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron and illustrator Olivier Balez (R) unveil the new face of Marianne, the national personification of the French Republic, which will be depicted on French La Poste ...

The statue of Liberty is bare-breasted at the Marianne monument in Paris Prime Minister Manuel Valls has upset political rivals and historians by invoking the symbol of the French republic, Marianne, ...