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My daughter Emmanuelle cares for the well-being of our Labrador Sophia with the same kind of intensity and love as for me. An ad hoc princ...

I love this deliberately-distorted image (by Jason Reed) of the Democratic candidate Barack Obama campaigning at Exeter High School in New ...

Do you believe that Bill Shakespeare , before penning his great love tragedy entitled Romeo and Juliet , took the trouble to verify that the...

Bruce Hudson is no ordinary Australian friend. During my childhood in South Grafton, although our respective educational establishments wer...

I warn Antipodes readers that you won't necessarily understand much, if anything, of what I'm about to say. First, it's in Fren...

In my genealogical research over the last quarter of a century, I've collected all kinds of so-called BDM certificates [births, deaths a...

The theme of labyrinths has always interested me, and I built websites [ display ] that simulate those of Chartres (France) and Lucca (I...

In French, there's a nice expression to designate an itinerary that's considerably longer than normal: chemin des écoliers [childre...

Today, society can appreciate retrospectively the revolutionary effects of the widespread use of the elegant adjective " gay ", st...

A few hours ago, I drove down to the village of Pont-en-Royans to drop in on my local physician, Dr Xavier Limouzin . He was as proud as a s...

Is Australia an adult nation? It's so long since I lived in Australia for an appreciable length of time that I prefer to refrain from st...

Not so long ago, many people in France were intrigued by the dynamism, exuberance and energetic determination of the newly-elected president...

The French-language blog named Jour après jour [ Day after day ], written by a regular Parisian reader of Antipodes known as cm , informe...

During my short trip to Australia in 2006, I was shocked to discover that there were no trains to a couple of NSW towns that I wished to vis...

I take this opportunity of conveying my best wishes for 2008 to readers of the Antipodes blog. Over the last few weeks, I've been more ...

It's still 2007 here in France, whereas the new year is already an hour and a half old in my motherland. And the following dramatic stor...

In my blog, I write one day about major themes such as Australia's future submarines, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto [who, I'v...

We must understand that it's normal for the promised transfer of hostages of the Colombian Farc to be subject to all kinds of more-or-l...

There's no doubt about it: the prohibition of smoking in French cafés and restaurants, as of next Wednesday, is likely to be a gigantic ...

The test explosion seen in this video took place on 28 May 1998 in the hills of the Chagai district of the Pakistani province of Baluchistan...