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The city is opening up but something is missing as the old anger and division return.
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After riots in Paris, the smoke is clearing over the city
Following five nights of unrest, a fraught but fragile calm has returned to the poor suburbs of northern Paris,…
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Paris is an open prison
Under lockdown, the City of Light has been thrown into terrible darkness.
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Emmanuel Carrère: “I need to be honest about myself. Otherwise, why write?
The celebrated French writer Emmanuel Carrère on why he is drawn to monsters, murderers, enigmas – and himself.
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The new Spanish civil wars
How the contested legacy of Islamic rule in Spain is fuelling the rise of the far right in the…
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The last true Gaullist: how Jacques Chirac charmed France
The late president’s popularity across French society is in marked contrast to that of Emmanuel Macron, who is deemed to…
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The French elites against the working class
Christophe Guilluy writes from the left but has been acclaimed by the right. He believes that France, with its…
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The making of a messiah
Isidore Isou was a Jewish visionary who escaped Romania and the Nazis to become a star of the French…
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