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I'm recovering slowly but surely from a nasty fall, and attempting to master details of writing and blogging that had disappeared totall...

Julian Assange has just written an open letter to French president François Hollande asking to be received in France. Click here to ...

There’s an uproar in France today among baccalauréat students because their English exam expected them to discuss the ways in which a certa...

This is a new Renault Kangoo : the same brand-name as mine, with a similar external appearance. But it’s no ordinary automobile. Judge...

In France, it's a fact, rightly or wrongly, that few folk celebrate the Battle of Waterloo , which took place exactly two centuries ago,...

For centuries, an old-fashioned bank in Paris, the Crédit municipal , has enabled ordinary citizens to deposit valuable stuff such as jewel...

Elias Ashmole 's suggestion that my Latton ancestors descended from the illustrious Estouteville family was published in 1719, with sup...

During my wonderful three-year stint with Pierre Schaeffer at the Service de la Recherche de l’ORTF, I had countless encounters with amazi...

I’m disappointed. This outrageous Monty Python sketch should have been censored in every self-respecting god-fearing Christian nation throug...

If I were still residing out in my native land, I would surely react strongly to this ugly case of a total sell-out to American capitalism. ...

The name of this pretty fellow is Nasser Ben Ali al-Anassi . He was proud to claim credit for ordering the Charlie massacres in Paris. ...

Having examined countless BMD records [births, marriages and deaths] in the context of my personal genealogical research, I was delighted t...

In France, the production and distribution of electricity have always been handled by a gigantic state-owned monopoly, EDF [ Electricité de...

At the start of 1962, when I sailed from Sydney for the Old World, my grandfather was surprised, indeed slightly shocked, that a young Austr...

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The French media are full of in-depth articles about a horrendous crime perpetrated by the precursors of present-day Turkey exactly a centur...

Within the forthcoming 48 hours, my native land will be moving massively into a lugubrious funereal mode of existence, incorrectly labeled a...

I’ve often seen this fellow drumming on a wooden pole alongside the tiled box in which I put sunflower seeds for the flock of great tits [...

Click to enlarge Its size suggests a didgeridoo. But the line of holes indicates that we’re faced with a wooden specimen of the flute ...

My paternal aunt Yvonne Elizabeth Skyvington was born at the Hillcrest Hospital in Rockhampton (Queensland, Australia) on May 1, 1919....