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Jean Birnbaum of Le Monde called it a "political thriller that veers into metaphysical meditation". [3] It envisions the years of 2026 and 2027 where France is in a period of decline. [4] However, France shows some signs of revival and is without labour strikes but "the gap between the ruling classes and the populace has reached unprecedented ...
In France, used for an airline pilot (le commandant de bord), in the Army as appellative for a chef de bataillon or a chef d'escadron (roughly equivalent to a major) or in the Navy for any officer from capitaine de corvette to capitaine de vaisseau (equivalent to the Army's majors, lieutenant-colonels and colonels) or for any officer heading a ...
The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1]
A 12-year-old girl and her 40-year-old mother were among six people wounded in a brazen shooting inside a Bronx convenience store after the parent was used as a human shield by the “cowardly ...
The "Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne" (English title: Poem on the Lisbon Disaster) is a poem in French composed by Voltaire as a response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. It is widely regarded as an introduction to Voltaire's 1759 acclaimed novel Candide and his view on the problem of evil. The 180-line poem was composed in December 1755 and ...
This guy gave new meaning to the slogan “Gottahava Wawa.” Police in East Windsor, N.J., arrested a 24-year-old man on Dec. 23, and charged him with misusing the town’s 911 system for ...
United States midfielder Christian Pulisic has a torn muscle in his right calf, AC Milan announced on Monday following an MRI, and he could be out until January. Pulisic was injured during the ...
The Drownings at Nantes, anonymous period painting, Musée d'histoire de Nantes The first drownings happened on the night of 16 November 1793 (26 Brumaire Year II of the French Republic ). The victims were 160 Catholic priests known as ' refractory clergy ' ( French : clergé réfractaire ) who had been arrested in the area.