Henri Astier is a French journalist who works for the BBC.

Recent articles

The once influential “second left” in France has been eclipsed in the last generation by an older left still wedded to statist solutions. Henri Astier dissects this French exception, and what it means for the presidential election and beyond.

A year after their social explosion, Henri Astier returns to France's impoverished suburbs to ask whether anything has changed.

France's foremost political thinker was also her most misunderstood, says Henri Astier.

The success of the mass protests against the government’s employment law illuminates the condition of French democracy itself, says Henri Astier.

The travails of an economic model that excludes millions of its citizens from employment underlie the latest wave of mass protests in France, says Henri Astier.