The Wordsmith
Thanks to the series of lockdowns, nature enjoyed a little respite during the Covid-19 pandemic – until humanity resumed its destructive activities with renewed […]
Author: Dominique Mataillet
The Wordsmith
From Trump to Putin to Erdogan, many political leaders are suffering from a pathology whose symptoms include the feeling of being omnipotent. […]
The Wordsmith
Despite speaking a very refined French, President Emmanuel Macron allows himself the occasional semantic indulgence. […]
Culture
From Blaise Pascal’s mechanical calculator to Roland Moreno’s chip card, French innovations have helped shape today’s world. […]
Perspectives
Liberty, equality, insularity? The protests in France’s overseas territories that regularly make the news should not deceive anyone. Today, the push for independence has […]
The Wordsmith
Behind this strange term lurks a plague of our modern times: the omnipresence of people in the public arena who hold forth on subjects […]
Perspectives
Birth rates are low in both countries, with immigration the only solution for avoiding a drop in the French and American populations. […]
History
Now a symbol of French hyperpresidentialism, the Elysée Palace has seen its share of events since it was built exactly three centuries ago. A […]
History
The Bièvre flows beneath the 13th and 5th arrondissements, but has been buried under concrete for the past century. It may soon see the […]
Perspectives
Despite being widely shared by the far right and adopted by parts of the right, the theory of a massive foreign invasion, the so-called […]
