#French

Brandon

blgtylr

I bought an audio book about the Hundred Years War because I don't know that much about it, and, like...every five minutes, I'm shaken to my soul. Nobody:The English at

Rob Griffith

Rob_Griffith_

21 August 1808 - The Battle of Vimeiro, Portugal - British troops under Lt.Gen. Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat the French commanded by General Jean-Andoche Junot. The next day Wellesley would

J Malone.

malone_j71

Oh suddenly it all makes sense why he needs to discredit the MNO.. Sick !! Gross !! Can be paid to take any position !! So let me get this

Lilian Edwards

lilianedwards

Thread. There's been rather a lot happening this week so perhaps I missed the discussion on the FB Oversight Board's first decided cases - if so please point me at

Nora Loreto

NoLore

Mini-thread: Mesley's note mentioning the French book title suggests that she had a very cunning PR person working with her. The content of the book has literally nothing to do

Tamer

levantophile

1/ This is sadly a common view among young Lebanese today and, more than anything else, I think it’s an indictment of Lebanon’s educational system for almost entirely neglecting to

alexandre afonso

alexandreafonso

If you look in the French phone directory, you can find a number of people with an unusual surname: "Snp". Where does it come from? (thread) https://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pagesblanches/recherche?quoiqui=snp&ou=&univers=pagesb

Joshua Molloy

joshmolloy101

This week I provided evidence against Tyler Vilus, aka Abou Hafs al-Faransi, a French ISIS emir on trial on France linked to executions carried out in Syria and the 2015

Jenny Grant

SilenceInPolish

"If it's going to be wasted or perhaps handed over to the Hun, we'd better take it ourselves..." In June 1940, as Pétain seeks an armistice with Hitler, a difficult

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

Sigh. I wrote a whole book about what Americans in the 1790s thought about the French Revolution, and how that French-inspired wave of transatlantic radicalism shaped American politics, so I

Lauren Collins

laurenzcollins

OK, first off: zero question that @jameskmcauley (PhD in French history) and @onishinyt (who, for the record, works side-by-side with French reporters) and other reporters understand the concept of laïcité,

Franck Salameh 🇱🇧🇦🇲🇫🇷🏴

oldlevantine

Thread:1- To the amebae going apoplectic over the desperate calls of some Lebanese for the “reinstatement” of the “French Mandate,” it may be helpful to bone up history and the

Pascal Jacquemain 🇫🇷in🇬🇧 #the5million

jacquep

Hi @JulianSmithUK , my Tory MP for life ,During our holidays in France, there was a bit of a milestone for my wife and I.25 years since we were introduced,

Stephen Schwartz

AtomicAnalyst

Today in 1985, French secret agents—in an elaborate intelligence operation codenamed Satanique—bombed and sank the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, New Zealand, as it prepared to return to Mururoa

TheDisabilityEnthusiast

twitchyspoonie

This might be a hot take, but if you're a leftist in a colonial country and have the access, I think you should be learning another language. I think we

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

Obama-endorsed French President Emmanuel Macron has joined numerous French intellectuals & journalists in warning that "out-of-control woke leftism of US campuses and its attendant cancel culture" poses a grave threat

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