#French

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

Weekly French Covid thread. It is probable that France will be placed in a 3rd lockdown in a few days. With the mood of the country turning sour – only

Tom Forth

thomasforth

I decided to break up my reading of @MESandbu's new book with this amusingly serious Belgian investigation into why bread (much -- shock horror -- imported frozen from Poland) is

Iron Spike

Iron_Spike

Whoooole lotta people in the comments of this one mistaking "white" for "European."The concept of "whiteness" as interpreted by Americans isn't remotely old. It's the way Italians, the Irish, the

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

New French vaccine thread…The French programme is speeding up. Hooray. Without admitting they were ever slow, the French government says it can go faster. PM Jean Castex announced last night

Anna

madameask

So I have seen a lot of posts about the movie "Cuties" ("Mignonnes" in French) that is showing on Netflix. I agree that the way Netflix presents the movie is

Michael B Murphy QC

monctonSJlawyer

Once upon a time there were eight regional health authorities. 4 informally ran in French and 4 in English. The English were very large compared to the French ones excepting

Curtis “Ovid” Poe 🇺🇸🇫🇷✊🏾

OvidPerl

Serious question for people living in the US. Do you really think it's a better quality of life than other countries? I'm from the US, but I now live in

The Kaipullai

thekaipullai

How the Future of India and USA, was determined by the inability of the Austrian Kings Joseph I and Charles VI, to produce male heirs..When Joseph 1, died of smallpox

河濱（臺灣）

_amenamy

I actually want to use this story as a reminder for my Americans friends that Sciences Po is NOT the "liberal enclave" in France as y'all love to picture it.

fleetstreetfox

fleetstreetfox

Having peeked at tomorrow's papers, I can reveal the twats in govt are talking crap about migrants in boats. 1/ there are no international waters between Dover and Calais. Not

Geopolitics101

geo_politic_101

In France, laïcité is the idea of protecting the state and public affairs from religious power. Catholicism and the French state (kingdoms, empires) made France effectively a theocracy where other

Pertinax Statarius🇪🇺

PertinaxS

#Napoleon #napoleonicwars An unknown hero of Germany, forgotten hero of Hessen: Alexander Iwanowitsch Tschernyschow (Александр Иванович Чернышёв) was born on 30th. December 1785. As a lieutenant in the russian armay

Mame-Fatou Niang

MariannesNoires

(Thread on Black womanhood, representations and French cinema) - So today, someone (ecstatically) told me, upon finding that I was from France, that they #Girlhood. I don’t .I just

🍒 Andrew Fletcher 🍒

ScotiaIndyref2

1/15 Scotland’s most famous connection with Europe was the Auld Alliance with France. First agreed in 1295/6 the Auld Alliance was built on Scotland and France’s shared need to curtail

Phil

RugbyPhilBB

So here's a little thread on the continued ignorance of a) some parts of our media and, of course, b) Geraint Powell. Paul Rees, sadly accelerating towards dinosaur status, claimed

Joy of the People

JOYofthePEOPLE

Soccer is perhaps best understood as a language. And what's the best way to learn a language?Let’s say you wanted to learn French as a second language.You could enroll in

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