In August 1944, in a city near Paris, Robert Capa took a photograph of a woman cradling a baby in the middle of a jeering crowd, her head shaved and her forehead marked with a swastika. The woman, Simone Touseau, would become infamous — first as a symbol of the brutality of post-occupation France and […]
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Decisions like these, involving people who almost certainly cannot give express consent, hang over the sterilization debate. Katrin Langensiepen, a German politician and one of the few visibly disabled members of the European Parliament, is pushing for a strict Europewide ban on nonconsensual sterilization. Many of history’s notorious eugenics practices, she said, were justified as […]
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The French do not like an Englishman’s rendition of Napoleon. Or at least, the French critics do not. Looking grim and moody from under an enormous bicorn hat, Joaquin Phoenix glowers from posters around Paris, promoting the film by Ridley Scott that offers the latest reincarnation of the French hero whose nose — as one […]
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, a French historian at the forefront of a scholarly movement that sought to understand the past from the bottom up, by probing the beliefs and psychology of anonymous peasants and priests rather than the exploits of triumphant generals and rulers, died on Wednesday. He was 94. His family confirmed the death, […]
Read MoreStellantis To Convert Used Diesel Vans To Electric For Less Than €20k | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The program will initially be focused in France, taking advantage of the government incentives 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Stellantis only recently revealed its updated light commercial vehicle (LCV) range in Europe, but it doesn’t neglect the […]
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Bugatti Owners Show Off Their Wealth In The Most Flamboyant Of European Tours | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The tour attracted a host of Veyron, Chiron, and Divo models to the streets of France and Spain https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson November 15, 2023 at 18:33 <!––> <!– –> Bugatti Veyron and Chiron owners are […]
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She lives in a French town near St.-Tropez that she calls “paradise,” where she and her young son have taken refuge from the war back home in Ukraine. But when Liudmyla Gurenchuk and her son needed to see doctors this fall, they made the 1,300-mile trek back to Kyiv, leaving the picturesque tranquillity of the […]
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When climate activists protesting the building of a huge church complex in a natural park in the South of France scaled the construction site, the nuns gave chase. One sister grabbed an environmentalist climbing an excavator, but lost her grip and fell rolling into a pit. Two other nuns tried to hold down a protester, […]
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Growth in the eurozone contracted unexpectedly this summer, as rising interest rates cooled momentum in Germany and France, the region’s two biggest economies, Europe’s statistics agency reported Tuesday. The downturn reflected the challenges facing policymakers at the European Central Bank, who last week paused their campaign of interest rate increases to fight inflation amid signs […]
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Should we be troubled by their relationship, with its age gap and power imbalances? Ernaux, a supporter of the #MeToo movement, addresses the question directly. “Our relationship could have been considered from the perspective of mutual gain,” she writes. “He gave me pleasure and made me relive things I would never have imagined experiencing again. […]
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Yet as race became a part of public discourse in France after in the past two decades, challenging the country’s colorblind ideals, the siblings’ thinking evolved, albeit with subtle differences. In 2008, Pap Ndiaye published “La Condition Noire” (“The Black Condition”), an essay on Black history and discrimination in France. NDiaye wrote a foreword for […]
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The terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel and the retaliatory strikes in Gaza had already put French authorities on edge, pushing them to jack up security at Jewish sites and ban pro-Palestinian protests. Then, last Friday, just three days before the country was set to mark the somber anniversary of a teacher’s gruesome beheading by […]
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Delage Starts Building Two-Seat D12 Hypercar With Up To 1,100 HP | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Delage expects to take four to five years to build all 30 examples of the D12 hybrid hypercar https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Delage has commenced production of the D12 hypercar and has […]
Read MoreThousands of troops were being deployed to guard sensitive locations across France, and the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles were evacuated in separate security alerts, as the country remained on edge on Saturday after the killing of a schoolteacher in a stabbing attack that the authorities described as an act of Islamist terrorism. […]
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A man armed with a knife killed a teacher and seriously injured two other people at a school in northern France on Friday, an assault that deeply disturbed the country and that officials described as an Islamist terror attack. The stabbing took place at the Gambetta-Carnot public school in Arras, a town of about 42,000 […]
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The owners were convinced they had been infested by bedbugs again. They stripped their house of every piece of clothing, every last picture frame, every book and children’s toy where a bedbug might hide and stuffed it all inside garbage bags to be stored outside, in a tent in their back yard in a village […]
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On the tracks of a railway depot in northern France, a steam locomotive puffs out smoke as if it just took a drag. An engineer and two apprentices stand inside its teal-colored cab wearing dark clothing and gloves. It’s hard to make out their faces under the glare of the midmorning sun. They’ve been warming […]
Read MoreNew DS 7 Vauban Is A Limited Production Armored Take On The French SUV | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The plug-in hybrid model is inspired by the presidential DS 7 that is currently used by Emmanuel Macron 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> DS Automobiles, known for supplying the armored DS 7 Elysee to the […]
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Maserati GT2 Makes Racing Debut, Secures Second Place Finish In France | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The Maserati GT2 started on pole position in its first race and finished in second place https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 1 hour ago <!––> <!– –> The Maserati MC20-based GT2 made its racing debut over the weekend, participating […]
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The phone echoed in Farid El Haïry’s home in northern France. It was February 1999. A rural police officer was on the line, asking if he could come down to the gendarmerie for a chat. “I asked them why and was it urgent,” he says. It’s nothing serious, he remembers being told. Come when you […]
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“You can taste the climate change.” Frédéric Chaudière, a third-generation winemaker in the French village of Mormoiron, took a sip of white wine and set down his glass. The tastes of centuries-old varieties are being altered by spiking temperatures, scant rainfall, snap frosts and unpredictable bouts of extreme weather. The hellish summer was the latest […]
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Hyundai Brings 10 Special Art Cars To Paris To Support Busan’s 2030 World Expo Bid | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Hyundai’s 10 art cars were created in partnership with Korean graffiti artist Jay Flow https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Hyundai has launched a campaign in support of Busan’s bid […]
Read MoreTo protect its flocks and its foie gras from the ravages of bird flu, France has begun a mass vaccination of 64 million ducks. The campaign, which started this week, aims to prevent the spread of a deadly variant of avian influenza that has forced French farmers to cull more than 30 million birds in […]
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Read MoreChery Is Bringing Omoda, Jaecoo And Exlantix Brands To Europe | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Chery is so confident of its success in Europe that it is already thinking of establishing a local factory https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Chery Automobile will introduce three new brands across Europe over […]
Read MoreIn France’s lower house of Parliament, a top opposition lawmaker held up a small vial for all her colleagues to see. Its contents, she warned in a fiery speech this week, were “spreading despair” around the country. “Must we wait for your office to be infested before you finally react?” the lawmaker, Mathilde Panot, told […]
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Marble floors, an emerald-green Murano chandelier, a life-size glass horse set against the backdrop of a cascading waterfall: Boarding the S.S. Catherine was like stepping into a meticulously curated room featured on the cover of Architectural Digest. It wasn’t until I checked into my stateroom in late August and pulled back the curtains to reveal […]
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Most mornings, around 6:30, Tharshan Selvarajah arrives at the Élysée Palace, seat of the French presidency, and unloads around 30 baguettes into the security scanner. The bread that is synonymous with France is sacred, but not to the point that it can pass unverified into President Emmanuel Macron’s mouth. Nor is the baguette, in its […]
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Citroen Celebrates 75 Years Of The Tin Snail | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Display of 75 different 2 CV models will be open to the public at the Conservatoire Citroën in October https://www.carscoops.com/author/chris-chilton-cc/ <!––> by Chris Chilton 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> The Citroen 2CV has been out of production for over 30 years, […]
Read MoreWho Needs Speed Bumps When You Have Spaghetti Road Lines | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> A rural French village decided to paint wacky lines all over an intersection to slow cars down, but critics say it will just disorient them 1 hour ago <!––> <!– –> A small French village is toying with a novel […]
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Pope Francis met with President Emmanuel Macron of France on Saturday on the second day of a whirlwind trip to Marseille, a port city in the country’s south where the pontiff reiterated his forceful condemnation of the world’s indifference toward the deaths of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. Thousands of police officers […]
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