Category - Dominique de Villepin

• Ex-French PM Dominique de Villepin launches party with view to presidenti­al run
• De Villepin acquitted in smear trial
• French politician’s trial restoring him as Sarkozy rival
• Ex-premier goes on trial in France
• Defendant slams French president
• French politician charged with slander
• Villepin dismisses idea he’ll quit; rails blocked
• Chirac bids to quell French job crisis
• French riot police battle demonstrat­ors
• Iraq invasion critic to head new French government
• Yasser Esam Hamdi, Dominique de Villepin,
• Dominique de Villepin,
• France calls for global support on use of force