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‘Homosexuals were executed under Mao, but early gay-liberation militants in France had waved his red book. Their movement transcended its inspiration…’

‘If you look closely, Sarkozy’s latest austerity measure is a symbol of the greater failures of his Presidency…’

‘At one time, a lot of us – fewer now – put our money on French haute cuisine.’

‘Victor Hugo, it turns out, was as orientalist as his compatriots.’

Lautréamont’s recipe for “toxic emanations” still as pungent as ever

UX under Paris

Libelles and liberty

“We are France”

Vanina Marsot: France’s TV Literary Chat Scene

Illustrated book excerpt:

‘The Pretty Women of Paris’ by Anonymous, Kate Rochester and Lindsay Brunnock

C. Raja Mohan argues for a post-colonial Raj

Le Fooding: it’s important, it’s a heresy and it’s hard to follow

How did Yves Klein make his Leap into the Void?

How did Yves Klein make his Leap into the Void?

Social scars left by France’s role in slavery and colonialization

Baroque individuality and the disciplinary, religious and political limits of philosophy

Fitting silence of Camus

Submerged Paris

Besson leads bid to ban the burqa

‘The Left and Racial Domination in France’