Francois Hollande has always been an unlikely French president, a guy proud to call himself "normal" and who ended up in the Elysee Palace almost by default.

Hollande repeatedly had said he would seek re-election only if he were able to curb the unemployment rate in France, which for years has hovered around 10 percent.

François Hollande, the newly-inaugurated President of France, may be as notable for what he has not done as for what he has. He has never held national elective office despite being at the center ...

The Basics Name: François Gérard Georges Hollande Date of Birth: August 12, 1954 Place of Birth: Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France Religion: Undetermined (French politicians ...

Francois Hollande takes oath of office as France's new president. He will travel to Germany today to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss a European austerity package which he ...

M ost of the world now knows François Hollande as the man who won France’s May 6 presidential election, and in so doing made incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy the nation’s first single-term head of ...

France’s President Francois Hollande announced Thursday he will not seek a second term in office. French voters will go to the polls in April and May 2017, but Hollande, ...

Hollande campaigned on a kinder, gentler, more inclusive France, but his victory over Nicolas Sarkozy , the combative conservative elected in 2007, was also seen as a challenge to the German ...

PARIS --French President Francois Hollande doesn't look like a man who spends 10,000 euros ($11,000) a month on his hair. Yet the deeply unpopular Socialist leader, who was elected on a populist ...

This is France! ¶ The Hollande affair is a national talker, but moral outrage appears absent. The president and the first lady, Valerie Trierweiler, aren't married to begin with.

— -- French president Francois Hollande was evacuated from the Stade de France during France's friendly match against Germany on Friday after two loud explosions were heard outside the ground ...