At least according to Wikipedia, France and Spain have been at war one way or another with each other a mere 37 times between 1209 and 1823. These two nations must hate each other! But they don't really seem to. Not even over the War...
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We finally have a good colonial-postcolonial match. Anytime France is playing an African team, you have to root for France to be annihilated. Morocco hasn't exactly lit the world on.
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.
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 a job of restoration and it is about to reopen. In a world where everything...
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,.
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 everyone just denies that racism exists even though the end result is that white people...
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,.
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 Photo/Michel Euler, Pool) I don't have enough knowledge on France to comment meaningfully on the...
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.