The French Assembly, with votes from the left and the ... It took months to form this fleeting government after the legislative elections in July left the Assembly fragmented and without a ...

The newly created Legislative Assembly wanted to spread the revolution ... Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A ...

“I have to recognise tonight that the dissolution has, for the moment, brought more divisions to the Assembly than solutions for French people,” he said in an annual New Year’s address.

French Prime Minister François Bayrou survived his first major test in the National Assembly on Thursday after Socialist ...

French media described ... that his decision to call snap legislative elections last summer had proved a disaster. “I decided to dissolve the Assembly in order to give you back your say, to ...

“The dissolution caused more divisions in the Assembly than solutions for the French people,” he added, in the clearest mea culpa yet since the elections. Macron had justified his decision to ...

Spokeswoman Laure Lavalette said the National Assembly now better reflected the views of French voters and her party would engage in "constructive opposition". If the prime minister was looking to ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou yesterday survived his first vote of no confidence in parliament after the motion, ...