THE GREAT INTELLECTUAL DUELS (5/7) - The author of The Fall was as much a tormented man as a revolt. Between honors and modest origins, justice and his mother, the French Algeria of his childhood and his anticolonialism, he never ceased to be in conflict with himself. Journalist at Le Figaro and Le Figaro Magazine, Alexandre Devecchio is [...]
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. In this second of six parts, the scene takes place on May 10, 1940 when King George VI named "The Old Lion" at the post [...]
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 third of the six parts tells the internal struggles within the "War Cabinet" over three days, between May 26 and May 28, 1940. [...]
AUDIO - On the occasion of the release of Joe Wright's film, Wednesday, January 3, on the life of the British Prime Minister from May 1940, at the time of the entry into the war of the United Kingdom, Le Figaro proposes a Unpublished fiction in eight episodes based on the memories of the "Old Lion". "A conciliator, [...]
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. This first of the eight parts is held in May 1940, when the appointment to the post of prime minister of a man who would make history. [...]
Her life as an aristocrat in a mutant country With humor and sometimes cruelty, Françoise d'Origny tells of her life as an aristocrat in a mutant country. When most baronesses or countesses indulge in good works, she has done a great work. The wearing of imperious head, but by no means haughty, the slender pace, a quality of presence in [...]
Can we teach the lesson givers? The most serious in the case concerning this columnist Bondy Blog, Mehdi Meklat, who freely held for years on his Twitter feed (under the nickname Marcelin Deschamps before returning to his name) anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist, insulting to such or such [...]
FEATURE - The Sinai Monastery is home to the world's oldest library. The first results of a vast research campaign on palimpsests reveal some nice surprises. Special Envoy in Sinai (Egypt) It is still early. The freshness of the night grabs the cheekbones but a soft sun already licks the arid mounds [...]
The text that will be read below, published by MEMRI, illustrates the revolution we are currently witnessing in relations between Israel and the Arab world. Under the incredulous eyes of Europe, which today is, as Caroline Glick recently pointed out, Israel's main enemy on the international scene, an important part of the Arab-Muslim world - [...]