So, Emmanuel Macron is the first president in modern times who ... hails a "much-needed victory for the world", and France's president said it would work with him "with respect and ambition".

SIR Keir Starmer yesterday became the first British Prime Minister to mark Armistice Day in France since Winston Churchill.

Outside party headquarters in Paris, supporters spoke of an act of treachery for a party whose origins lie with the first president of France's current Fifth Republic, Charles de Gaulle.

Nevertheless, he managed to avoid a retaliatory war with France through diplomacy. Adams was the first president to take up residence in the President’s House (the original name of the White House).