Quelle surprise. Si j’étais américain, je voterais Donald TRUMP… Mais que Dieu le protège !— Jean-Marie Le Pen (@lepenjm) February 27, 2016 "If I was American, I'd vote for Donald Trump ... But [I can't do anything about it] God protect him." I'm not sure...
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Yglesias says what needs to be said about Andrew Sullivan's meditation on Marc Bloch:But on top of that, though there clearly is a sense in which current American politics is.
From Defense News, a response to a new French defense white paper:The report draws some skepticism. "It's interesting and no doubt well done, but I am unconvinced about the usefulness.
On August 15, 1769, nineteen year old Maria Letizia Bonaparte gave birth to her fourth child. The first two had died before the age of one year, but the third, Joseph, survived, and would eventually become King of both Naples and Spain. Maria's husband, Carlo...
The House of Orleans is a cadet branch of House Bourbon, itself a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty that ruled France for nearly a thousand years. The "founder" of.
The House of Bourbon is one of many cadet branches to House Capet, an ancient dynasty that first came to power in France in 987 AD. The rulers of Estate.
France's early efforts at battleship construction suffered from slow building, full slips, and a concentration on the more pressing issues of World War I. Accordingly, early French battleships were not competitive with their foreign contemporaries. The Washington Naval Treaty allowed France to build 70000 tons...
The construction of Dreadnought created a problem for the French Navy. The French had begun construction of a class of six advanced pre-dreadnoughts at almost the same time as Dreadnought..
On the plane ride from London I finished Julian Jackson's The Fall of France. While I was disappointed with the first chapter, I was very pleased with the volume as.
I've been working on this post for close to a year. I return to it every time I watch Battle of Algiers, which I saw last Thursday for the fourth time this year. If you haven't seen the film, go see it now. The first...
The service of the French Navy in World War II was undistinguished. As inevitability of German victory in May 1940 became apparent, the French Navy decided to move as many.