Jazz guitarist Christian Escoudé has died
The great jazz guitarist Christian Escoudé died of cancer at the age of 76 on Monday May 13, near Angoulême, his hometown. “He died...
Philippe Claudel elected new president of the Goncourt academy
The Goncourt Academy, which awards the most prestigious French literary prizes, changed president on Monday May 13, bringing writer Philippe Claudel to its helm...
Tried on appeal, Gabriel Fortin, the “HR killer”, does not wish to attend the...
From the opening of his appeal trial, Monday May 13 in Grenoble, Gabriel Fortin, nicknamed "the HRD killer", set the tone: he does not...
Bernard Perrut, former LR deputy, sentenced to one year in prison for embezzlement of...
Political figure from Beaujolais, former MP Bernard Perrut (Les Républicains, LR), was sentenced on Monday May 13 in Paris to a one-year suspended prison...
“Elfriede Jelinek. La langue au bras-le-corps”, on Arte: the collage portrait of a “plastic...
She is the author of The Pianist (ed. Jacqueline Chambon, 1988), adapted for the cinema by director Michael Haneke in 2001. Elfriede Jelinek is...
“Homosexuals and lesbians facing Nazism”, on France 5: the long march of these forgotten...
Among the victims of Nazism, there were some who had real difficulty being recognized: those whose sexual orientation was the only crime, who, when...
Illegal rave party in Maine-et-Loire: a man died of cardio-respiratory arrest
A man aged around thirty died on the morning of Sunday May 12 of a cardio-respiratory arrest during an undeclared rave party organized since...
Timothée Chalamet in the shoes of Bob Dylan, this may be a detail for...
You must have recognized Timothée Chalamet. But did you recognize Bob Dylan? For several weeks, in New York, the Franco-American actor has played the...
Eurovision 2024: artist Nemo wins the final for Switzerland
A finale shaken by controversies. The artist Nemo won Eurovision 2024 for Switzerland on Sunday May 12 with The Code, a very personal song...
“Trained to kill”, on TCM Cinema: Samuel Fuller transposes Romain Gary’s “White Dog” to...
Is racism an incurable mental illness or a learned, treatable behavior? It is on the basis of this anthropological and philosophical questioning that White...
“Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Taming the Stars”, on France 5: the romantic turbulence...
She was the soul and heart of The Little Prince (1943). When, in the summer of 1930, Consuelo Suncin Sandoval (1901-1979) met Antoine de...
“The Origin of the World” tagged in Metz: the Musée d’Orsay, which keeps the...
The Musée d'Orsay announced on Friday May 10 that it had filed a complaint after The Origin of the World, a famous nude by...
Abolition of slavery: in La Rochelle, Gabriel Attal salutes “the spirit of resistance” and...
Gabriel Attal chaired the ceremony commemorating the abolition of slavery on Friday May 10 in La Rochelle, announcing a “major national exhibition” in 2026...
Taylor Swift in Paris: 42,000 spectators present at the Arena Paris La Défense Thursday...
Glittery costumes, heart-shaped glasses and nails in the colors of her albums, Taylor Swift fans will meet Thursday, May 9 in the evening in...
Taylor Swift begins series of four concerts in Paris, 42,000 fans will attend
Glittery costumes, heart-shaped glasses and nails in the colors of her albums, Taylor Swift fans will meet Thursday, May 9 in the evening in...
Spanish justice closes proceedings against Shakira for tax fraud
A Spanish court announced on Thursday, May 9, that it had closed the tax evasion proceedings launched against the global star Shakira, thus following...
Steve Albini, musician and producer for the Pixies, Nirvana and PJ Harvey, dies at...
Steve Albini, rock musician and producer, died at age 61 of a heart attack on the night of Tuesday May 7 to Wednesday May...
“Words of female readers” – Response to an attempt to define Ukrainian literature
Jonathan Littell fortunately has the prudence to specify at the very beginning that “separating the Ukrainians from the Russians” in literature would be...
Bernard Pivot, “the reference” for Augustin Trapenard, who pays tribute to him in “La...
All the rage (with a hyphen, please) at France Télévisions. Since the announcement on Monday May 6 of the death of Bernard Pivot, the...
In Tunisia, repression is increasing on sub-Saharan migrants and the associations that support them
It was 2 a.m. on Friday, May 3, when law enforcement officers appeared in front of the migrant camp, set up opposite the headquarters...
Swastikas and homophobic inscriptions on a war memorial near Valenciennes
“Escautpont wakes up in shock! » Swastikas and homophobic inscriptions were drawn on the night of Tuesday May 7 to Wednesday May 8 on...
The Max streaming platform will be available in France from June 11
The Max streaming platform, a merger of HBO Max and Discovery, will be launched in France on June 11, with three price levels (5.99...
Fred Dewilde, cartoonist and survivor of the Bataclan attack, committed suicide
Nine years after the attacks of November 13, 2015, Fred Dewilde, one of the survivors of the Bataclan massacre, ended up killing himself that...
Emmanuel Macron proposes creating a “duty to visit” for fathers in single-parent families
Emmanuel Macron suggests in a video broadcast Tuesday May 7 by Elle magazine to open a “debate” on the establishment of a possible “visiting...
Judith Godrèche will present a short film on sexual violence at the Cannes Film...
She has become one of the figures in the fight against sexual violence in French cinema and does not intend to stop there in...
At Sciences Po Paris, gatherings of pro-Palestinian students dispersed again
The police intervened again, Tuesday, May 7, twice, in front of the historic premises of Sciences Po Paris to disperse students mobilized in favor...
Mathis' disappearance in 2011: father indicted for murder
Twist in the case of little Mathis missing since 2011: his father; Sylvain Jouanneau, sentenced in 2015 to twenty years in prison for kidnapping...
Beethoven's "Ninth" is 200 years old: on Arte, a look back at a highly...
It was self-evident that Arte, a Franco-German channel, would honor the Symphony No. 9 of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), premiered exactly two centuries ago,...
The plays “The Circle of Disappeared Poets” and “4,211 km” were doubly rewarded at...
Dedicated to the memory of Bernard Pivot, writer and television presenter who died on Monday May 6 at the age of 89, the Molières...
Anti-Semitism: at the CRIF dinner, Gabriel Attal announces that “366 facts” were recorded in...
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced on Monday, May 6, that “366 anti-Semitic incidents” had been recorded in France in the first quarter of 2024,...
Senegal: the Dakar Biennale, a major event for contemporary African art, postponed by six...
The aisles of the old courthouse in Dakar are empty, devoid of the works that were to be exhibited in this emblematic place of...
“The Ghosts of Tonkin”, on France 3: endless mourning for the families of the...
Dien Bien Phu, one of the most humiliating defeats in the long history of the French army. The bloody battle which, from March 13...
Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette, president of the High Council for Equality, accused internally of discriminatory remarks
The president of the High Council for Equality (HCE), Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette, is accused of having made sexist and racist remarks in contradiction with the...
Death of Bernard Pivot: “Bukowski, shut up, you’re bothering us”
Passes of arms with speckled foil, rants, punches, games of seduction, lively emotions… Directly helping, there are many moments that have contributed to shaping...
“The Origin of the World”, famous nude by Gustave Courbet, tagged in Metz
The Origin of the World, famous nude by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), was tagged with red paint on Monday May 6. The painting, preserved by...
In “A Voix Nue”, on France Culture, the director and writer Robert Bober speaks...
In 2003, Sylvie Gouttebaron already produced a show “A voix nue” with Robert Bober, then 72 years old. Today, at 92, the man who...
Playwright Pierre Notte indicted for rape of a former student
Playwright and writer Pierre Notte was indicted for the rape of one of his former high school theater students from 2004 to 2005, a...
Transphobia: more than 10,000 people demonstrated in France to denounce discrimination against trans people
Activist collectives, left-wing elected officials, trade unionists, young people: several thousand people demonstrated on Sunday in France where around fifty rallies were planned to...
“Nuclear Now”, on Paris Première: when Oliver Stone takes France as an example
Will nuclear power help save the world? Filmmaker Oliver Stone no longer doubts it since reading A Bright Future, by Joshua S. Goldstein and...
“Not so white blouses”, on M6: the hospital facing sexist and sexual violence
When Agnès Buzyn recounts her appointment as “university professor-hospital practitioner” (PU-PH), in 2003, in a hospital which has 11% women in this position, the...