Portrait of MEP Jean-Marie LE PEN I don't have an obituary and I wish I had thought of writing one on him, but I think we should all be happy that Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Unfortunately, he had children.
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I visited Paris in 2018 and then Notre Dame burned in 2019. It seemed like a huge loss to global cultural patrimony, but France has evidently done one hell of.
I was already plenty aware that a lot of the myths Americans like to tell themselves about World War II and how great our soldiers were in freeing Europe were.
On October 26, 2005, the European Court of Human Rights decided in the case of a domestic laborer from Togo named Siwa-Akofa Siliadin in her case against her French employers, which held her against her will. It decided mostly in favor of Siliadin, though it...
I am never sure if systems of racism like the U.S. are worse, what with their own hatred and discrimination, or if systems of racism like Brazil are worse, where.
People attend a march in tribute to Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer during a traffic stop, in Nanterre, Paris, on June 29, 2023. The slogan.
Americans really struggle to deal with the problematic parts of our past. But comapred to the French, with their own weird national myths, Americans do an OK job. I mean, that Macron is the first French leader to directly address Toussaint L'Ouverture is odd enough...
French President Emmanuel Macron, gestures as he poses for a photograph after the recording of his New Year's speech at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018. (AP.
This 1966 newsreel is....weird. These people look like idiots. I assume that this never caught on in the United States. I hope not anyway. I also trust that part of.
On April 25, 1947, a strike wave in France began when workers at Renault auto factory in Boulogne-Billancourt walked off the job due to a decline in bread rations from the government in Paris. This began as a protest against the terrible economy of postwar...
The British leaving the EU really opens up the possibilities for those of us who missed the old days of the British and French killing each other over this and.
Paris, Pont Saint-Michel, 1961: "Here we drown Algerians" Sixty years ago today, Algerian migrants around the Paris region gathered for a peaceful march to protest a restrictive and discriminatory curfew..