France News News France » History: Ask An Academic: The Legacy of Vichy France
News channel or source: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/ask-an-academic-the-legacy-of-vichy-france
Published on: Tuesday 19 July 2011
On August 25th, 1944—the day Paris was liberated—General de Gaulle delivered one of the most important speeches in the history of modern France. Its conclusion: “We, who have lived the greatest hours ...
News France » History: A decade after the riots, France has rewritten its colonial history
News channel or source: https://theconversation.com/a-decade-after-the-riots-france-has-rewritten-its-colonial-history-50499
Published on: Sunday 24 January 2016
Ten years after the riots that hit France in 2005, there has been much debate about how far France has moved on from the images of burning cars, disaffected youth and urban apocalypse. At the time, ...
News France » History: From Rwanda to Mali: France’s chequered history in Africa
News channel or source: https://theconversation.com/from-rwanda-to-mali-frances-chequered-history-in-africa-11690
Published on: Monday 21 January 2013
Why the French intervention in Mali? Last week, French daily Le Monde asked this question of André Bourgeot, specialist on Sub-Saharan Africa with France’s National Centre for Scientific Research ...