When Yves Klein dedicated an ex-voto to Saint Rita
The French painter, famous for his deep blue monochromes, entrusted his success to Saint Rita of Cascia throughout his life. As a…
“The forest helps us to live”
Here we are at the foot of Quercus, a young 240-year-old oak, hero of the book that made you famous. How did…
Pope Francis recalls the fundamentals on American television
LGBT Union Blessings Faced with the director of the CBS Evening News who questions him about the document Fiducia supplicans, which opens…
European elections 2024. How to analyze the growing popularity of Raphaël Glucksmann?
Does the popularity of socialist candidate Raphaël Glucksmann herald, for the post-election period, a refocusing within the tumultuous union between the PS,…
Housing crisis. These French people who choose to live at the campsite
When finding accommodation becomes mission impossible, staying in a campsite represents an alternative adopted today by tens of thousands of French people….
“Living in a campsite is always a default choice”, Gaspard Lion, sociologist
Why is residential camping growing in France? This phenomenon spread from the 1990s, then especially 2000. It can be explained by the…
Exhibition “Sacrilege!” at the National Archives in Paris, when the sacred is attacked
In its beautiful 18th century setting at the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris, the venerable institution of the National Archives does not…
behind the riots, the ethnic question
“Here it’s Kanaky! Down with the white people!” This is the slogan shouted by the Kanak rioters, supporters of independence, in Nouméa,…
Amélie's gift
Once upon a time, in a “corner of France where happiness flourishes” – as Luis Mariano sang – but where the price…
Mary, “Mother of the Church”, celebrated on Pentecost Monday
At the initiative of Pope Francis, a decree was published on February 11, 2018, the 160th anniversary of the first Marian apparition…