Richard Cavendish remembers how the daredevil Jean-François Gravelet stunned the world on 30 June 1859
My Jesus Christ Is Bigger Than Yours | Huffpost
This "tourist envy" battle began in the late 1920s with this famous Art Deco Jesus
La influencia francesa en España desde el siglo XVII al XIX | ars magazine
Se analiza, de una manera cronológica y temática, “el proceso de transferencia, culturización, mestizaje y recepción del arte francés en nuestro país”.
Charles Perrault: the modern fairytale’s fairy godfather | The Guardian
“Perrault’s stories set the standard for the modern fairytale,”
Francia universal | La Nacion.ar
El estilo derivado de la École des Beaux Arts, fundada a comienzos del siglo XIX, difundió en el mundo el espíritu de la arquitectura francesa
We should say ‘Vive la France’ to a pioneering country as it marks its national holiday | Belfast Telegram
although the narrative seems to stress 'globalisation' ('mondialisation'), it all adds up to a paean of praise to France's influence on the world, and how many modern movements France started.
The Great Detectives: Vidocq | Strand magazine
François Eugène Vidocq, the world’s first real life private detective
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (60 years of Heroes) | Time europe
when Cousteau died, aged 87, in 1997, he was widely hailed as one of the fathers of environmentalism for his work as an oceanographer
David Randall: What did France ever do for us? | The independent
French ingenuities have penetrated our lives in more ways than we shall ever know.
Cumplió cien años el señorial edificio del Centro Naval porteño | La Nueva
Una muestra importante de la arquitectura francesa de la belle époque identificada con las líneas arquitectónicas de la École des Beaux Arts de París.
English genomes share German and French DNA while Romans and Vikings left no trace | Daily Mail Online
English genomes are 45 per cent French in origin
From Left Bank to left behind: where have the great French thinkers gone? (Sudhir Hazareesingh 2015) | The Guardian
From Voltaire and Rousseau to Sartre and De Beauvoir, France has long produced world-leading thinkers. It even invented the word ‘intellectual’. But progressives around the globe no longer look to Paris for their ideas. What went wrong?
Je suis Berliner – Germany’s French connection | The Guardian
By 1700 about a quarter of the Berlin population was French and there is evidence that the share increased over the rest of the century.
Debate: Should Morocco Say Goodbye to ‘Mama Franssa’? | Morocco Word News
Is France still Morocco’s model ?
Obama and Rouhani at the UN: decoding the rhetoric | The Guardian
Not only is modern French an official language of the UN, but French and its ancestors have given us the vocabulary of diplomacy.
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