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The Hebrew Bible stipulated that, for unexplained reasons, one could eat beef and lamb, but not pork. Then Matthew the Evangelist overturne...

As well as designating an amazing era of Italian achievements in art and architecture, the term renaissance is everyday French for rebirth ...

The civic authorities in Amsterdam have a side-splitting sense of humor. Look at this Photoshop montage they concocted for their forthcoming...

All four evangelists agree on the name of the place where Jesus was crucified. It was called Golgotha , which is a Hebrew term meaning the ...

This afternoon, I found this poster pinned onto a billboard advertising donkey excursions in the village of Beauvoir-en-Royans: When I was a...

In recent articles, I've evoked the terribly grave subjects of torture and the assassination of civilians in the context of the disastro...

During my many years in the heart of Paris, I was mildly obsessed (I hesitated before using this word, but it's fairly accurate) by a gr...

Now that George W Bush is leading the quiet life of a wealthy and distinguished retiree, we must not fail to recall constantly the extent a...

Now that Barack Obama has released explicit data concerning the use of torture by US authorities, I'm convinced that, sooner or later, ...

It's reassuring to learn that the French frigate Nivôse has succeeded in capturing eleven pirates off the coast of Kenya. This French f...

I guess I could say that this is the first official certificate I've ever received from an American institution. And I didn't even h...

The great French writer Maurice Druon , senior member of the Académie Française , died yesterday at the age of 90. With his uncle, the novel...

I think that I shall never blog A tree lovely as a dog. Paraphrasing the indelibly wonderful words of the US journalist and poet Alfred Joyc...

When I was a boy in Grafton, I was often in contact with a cultivated lady named Mavis McClymont , who was involved in urban affairs and als...

At Gamone, life is not necessarily leisurely for trees. If the trunks of this quince tree have a naked look, it's because the donkeys se...

In the state-owned French TV organization, the staff in charge of handling guest-star appearances do a marvelous job. A few days ago, on the...

Between my property and the Bourne, there's a rugged slope where I hardly ever venture, because the bushes and weeds are so thick that y...