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David Bowie was born in London on 8 January 1947. The public got to know him through Space Oddity in 1969, just before the landing on ...

Crowds gathered early at the Place de la République to commemorate the recent victims of barbary in the City of Light. As the sun we...

This short video presents the singer Louane and the trumpetist Ibrahim Maalouf,  who have recorded a powerful memorial song entitled On...

Extracts from the newspaper  Le Rappel , 7 September 1870, quoting words spoken to the crowd by  Victor Hugo . I've tried to tr...

Sometimes, when a bushfire is about to attack a small rural village in Australia, the inhabitants are capable (thankfully) of rushing to saf...

In the desert environment of Lake Eyre (South Australia), this muddy guy with a rock in his right hand is overcome with joy. Phil Bla...

Tancrède Melet , known throughout the world for his spectacular aerial exploits as the « Flying Frenchie », was killed on Tuesday in a trivi...

Back in the days when I earned my living as a computer programmer, we coexisted constantly with bugs . I believe that such tiny evil spirits...

Click here to access the website of Le Parisien , which commemorates the start of a year of terror in France.

I've preferred to leave the verb "enhance" in inverted commas, because geneticists are frankly playing at behaving as a divini...

David Cameron has just told his ministers that they're all free, individually, to adopt whatever attitude they like to the forthcomi...

This is amazing news. My French Internet provider, named Orange , is about to buy a bank, which will make it possible to carry out all the o...

My 2000th  tweet. Culture is what remains once you’ve forgotten everything else. I’ve always imagined that this excellent saying was French,...

Michel Galabru, died during his sleep this morning.

To commemorate the terrible slaughter on 7 January 2015 at Charlie Hebdo , the resuscitated weekly will be using the following cover: I...

For the first decade of my existence, I lived in a rural house in South Grafton (Australia) that did not have a so-called WC (water closet)....

The Aedes Aegypti mosquito, distributed in tropical zones throughout the world, is the main vector of both dengue and yellow fever virus...

Michel Delpech, died today, aged 69

Here's a brilliant short  New Yorker article  on the subject of urban terrorism by the exceptional US physicist Lawrence Krauss . H...

This 41-year-old Frenchman, Sébastien Loeb , is the most successful automobile driver in the history of the World Rally Championship (WRC),...