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This is a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh [1853-1890]: Up until recently, the following painting was also thought to be a self-portrait, ...

Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel is a sleepy village on the right bank of the Loire, opposite Jargeau , not far from Orléans , in the heart of th...

Last night in Guatemala, the celebrated 74-year-old Argentinian composer-singer Facundo Cabral was gunned down by unidentified assailants i...

Thankfully, here in France, we don't have to worry too much about the end of the world, programmed for 2012, because we can simply drive...

Although I've never been proud of the fact that my native land has bred a fellow such as Rupert Murdoch (whom I'm incapable of admi...

The casting, up until now, has been superb. At the center, the villain is a prosperous and powerful French Jew, operating in the sphere of i...

Bernard-Henri Lévy (often referred to as BHL) is a brilliant French intellectual who has played a political role in several international c...

We're all accustomed to incredible demonstrations from Chinese magicians of all kinds. So, we shouldn't be surprised, let alone anno...

This photo reappeared this morning on the website of Le Parisien , alongside an article by Jean-Marc Ducos revealing the "doubts"...

What people like Madeleine and Dédé are actually saying is that I should think twice before stepping out onto the slopes of Choranche equi...

I know little about typical values and attitudes within the US legal system, but I've always had the impression that they don't like...

This afternoon, Christine Lagarde was still in Paris, working at her everyday job as minister of Finance in the government of François Fill...

As a young man in Paris, I was impressed by this book by a great Spanish writer, which I used to read in an elegant English translation. The...

Back at the time I took my daughter and son out to my birthplace for the first time, they were greatly amused by a conversation they had ove...

This morning, I started to burn some of the dead wood that has been lying around for ages down in the donkeys' paddock. An hour later, I...

A counter located in the right-hand column informs me that my Antipodes blog usually receives about a hundred visits a day. On Friday eveni...

Some of my readers are likely to wonder whether I found this story by hanging around sleazily on websites about Japanese adolescents. In fac...

Let's see if you can successfully guess the nature of an individual by simply examining a portrait. Don't click this photo yet. Wait...

I dedicate this blog post to the dear memory of my lovable Gavroche , who was immensely smart, anything but wild (he seemed to imagine himse...

This is an amazing and beautiful video of initial contacts, back in 1976, between Papua New Guinea natives and a white-skinned visitor. ...