After “We are Charlie,” “We are Samuel”? Five years after the massacre of the staff of the weekly paper Charlie Hebdo in central Paris, the murder of a middle school social studies school teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a modestly prosperous exurb…
President Trump’s call with French president Emmanuel Macron on Monday has focused his attention on de-escalating the dispute between France and Turkey in Libya. Tensions between the two countries have simmered since a June 10 incident in the Mediterranean. French…
Michel Gurfinkiel was the foreign editor of Valeurs Actuelles, a Paris-based newsweekly, for many years. He is the author of a number of books on Israel, Jewish history (including a remarkable study of Odessa), and international affairs. Fluent in several…
The destruction of public monuments currently raging on both sides of the Atlantic has found an unlikely new opponent in the form of liberal French President Emmanuel Macron. Addressing French citizens in a televised speech on Sunday from the Élysée…
“Cette espèce de grève générale volontaire me paraît suicidaire,” quoth the aged veteran and retired politician to a young editor from the magazine Causeur. “This odd voluntary general strike strikes me as suicidal,” is how you — or, full disclosure,…
One consequence of the United Kingdom’s victory in securing independence from the super-state pretensions of the European Union may be to rejuvenate the EU itself. Not that the UK, as a member state, posed an inexorable risk to the viability…
“France has neither winter nor summer nor morals,” observed Mark Twain. “Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.” The sage of Hannibal, Missouri, was right on both points. France’s temperate climate, moderated by the Gulf Stream, lacks the…
“There is a dayspring in the history of this nation, which perhaps those only who are on the mountaintops can as yet recognize,” Benjamin Disraeli wrote of England. “You deem you are in darkness, and I see a dawn.” Since January 31,…
President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Poland this week to assure his hosts that France will not let the Russians do anything bad to them. At the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, alma mater and home town of his host, President Andrzej…
