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Category Archives: France
Perfection
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 3 June 2012 A perfect thing is perfect, whatever its dimensions. André Maurois (1885-1967). French … Continue reading
Not walking the talk
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 31 May 2012 ONE LAW FOR THE RICH, ANOTHER FOR THE POOR The Greeks don’t seem … Continue reading
Paris in the springtime
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Paris, 30 May 2012 PARIS IN THE SPRINGTIME ► 1:52 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF_yN1R2b5M Back in Paris. … Continue reading
First Stalingrad, then Berlin
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Posted in France, Germany, Greece, Italy
Tagged Beppe Grillo, Berlusconi, Bersani, Bossi, Marco Doria, Pizzarotti
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Age: drachma 3000 years, euro 10
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 8 May 2012 Two leftwing political parties in two different European countries have garnered unprecedented popular … Continue reading
Voltaire vindicated
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 1 March 2010 FRENCH GENOCIDE LAW OUTLAWED The French Constitutional Council has thrown out a law … Continue reading
Posted in Armenia, France, Turkey
Tagged free speech, genocide, Helvétius, Pierre Nora, Rights of Man, Robert Badinter, Voltaire
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Ἂριστον μὲν ὕδωρ³
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 22 February 2012 WATER IS BEST Quid lapide durius, quid aqua mollius? Verumtamen gutta cavat … Continue reading
Posted in China, France, Greece, Italy
Tagged Lucretius, Ovid, Pindar, Tao Te Ching, Tibullus
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Что делать? What is to be done? (Part 2)
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 12 February 2012 FROM EPICURUS TO KARATZAFERIS Что делать? What is to be done? That … Continue reading
L’Être et le Néant
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Posted in China, France, Literature, Philosophy
Tagged Arthur Waley, Sartre, Tao Te Ching
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GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER – UK PRIME MINISTER 5 February 2012 Tomorrow 6 February … Continue reading