The President of the Republic wants to return to the castle of Francis I its role as a center of the Francophonie. An expensive project. Last September, from the Château de Monte-Cristo, in the Yvelines, Emmanuel Macron promised to dedicate the castle of Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne), built for Francis I, "to the French culture". Is it not there, in 1539, [...]
The manuscript of the letter on anti-Semitic machinations against Captain Dreyfus will be published Saturday, 120 years, to the day, after its publication in L'Aurore These are 39 indignation pages. The manuscript of Émile Zola's letter to President Félix Faure denouncing the plot against Captain Dreyfus is published Saturday, 120 [...]
The one who was the successful performer of Serge Gainsbourg then Michel Berger succumbed to cancer, Sunday, January 7, at the age of 70 years. She had been, in the early 1960s, like Sylvie Vartan or Sheila, one of the singers of the current yé-yé with her blond square, her pretty dimple smile, a voice a [...]
DISAPPEARANCE - Lollipops to Babacar via Débranche, his tubes signed Gainsbourg or Berger accompanied our lives. "France Gall joined the white paradise on January 7, after having challenged for two years, with discretion and dignity, the recurrence of his cancer." It is with these words, transmitted to our colleagues of the AFP by his charge [ ...]
Prime Minister, "Bagatelles for a massacre", "L'Ecole des cadavres", "Les Beaux Draps", these are the three antisemitic texts written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline between 1937 and 1941 that the Gallimard editions wish to republish and of which you will find some excerpts above, and not necessarily the worst ones. These [...]
Weather. The passage of the storm Eleanor, this night on the north of France, caused significant damage Fourth storm to hit France in the space of a few weeks Eleanor also seems to have to be one of the most violent of the season. With gusts recorded near 150 km / h, it caused significant damage [...]
He is an Arthur Sadoun with whitened hair, with the face voluntarily aged, which this year complied with the exercise of the traditional vows videos of the Publicis group. Not easy to take over from Maurice Lévy who had made this event an event in the world of communication. The wishes of Maurice Lévy [...]
No, cousin, I was not in Lyon to attend the coronation of Carlos Conord! Why would I have returned? Everything was already written, and, I am told, even the gazetiers could hardly hear the speeches. Could I have heard some secrets about the new ministers? Come on! the secrets do not come out [...]
The battle of Dunkirk is finally completed. The entire British and Allied contingent is now out of danger. Since the 10th of June 1940, the French government has taken refuge in Tours and, on the 14th of June, it will be the beginning of the German occupation of Paris. Paul Reynaud is still, for a short time, the president of [...]
AUDIO - As part of our partnership with Joe Wright's movie, in theaters on January 3rd, Le Figaro offers an audio series in collaboration with Création-Collective. The fourth installment of our six-part saga takes as a backdrop on June 3, 1940, during Operation Dynamo to exfiltrate [...]
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