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French President Emmanuel Macron warned Wednesday that France faces an "uncivilising process", a government source said, following the violent deaths of a nurse and three policemen and repeated attacks on elected officials. "We must be uncompromising on the fundamentals. There is no legitimate violence, whether verbal or against people," Macron told ministers at a cabinet meeting. "We have to work from top to bottom to counteract this uncivilising process," he added, in comments first reported by daily Le Parisien and confirmed to AFP by a person present in the meeting room. Macron was "calling society to order," a person close...

Paris CNN — A ban on short domestic flights for journeys that can be completed in two-and-a-half hours by train was signed into law in France on Tuesday. Clement Beaune, France’s transport minister, heralded the decree. “This is an essential step and a strong symbol in the policy of reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” Beaune said in a statement. “As we fight relentlessly to decarbonize our lifestyles, how can we justify the use of the plane between the big cities which benefit from regular, fast and efficient connections by train,” he added. Only three routes have been discontinued: those linking Paris-Orly...

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin stresses importance of collaboration between intelligence services in visit to US. France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that the primary risk for Europe and France is "Sunni Islamist terrorism” Ashleigh Furlong May 20, 2023 There’s a risk of a “resumption” of the “Islamist terrorist” threat in Europe, France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said during a visit to the U.S. Stressing the importance of anti-terrorism collaboration between intelligence services from both sides of the Atlantic, Darmanin said in an interview with Agence France-Presse that “for Europeans and for France the primary risk is Sunni Islamist terrorism.” While...

(Last Updated On: May 19, 2023) NATIONAL ESCARGOT DAY | MAY 24 Each year on May 24th, National Escargot Day honors the famous French dish of cooked land snails. While escargot is enjoyed by many it is an acquired taste. Many French restaurants serve the dish as an appetizer. #NationalEscargotDay Escargot {es.kar.go} is the French word for snail. Cooks usually prepare Escargo by removing the land snails from their shells, cooking them with garlic, butter, and wine. Once cooked, the gastropods go back into their shells with the sauce for serving. Because the snails are clumsy to eat, special forks...

Emmanuel Macron staged an event "Choose France" on Monday promoting the notion of Global Business investing in France. Luminaries like Elon Musk meeting Mr. Macron... A very disturbing event Tuesday with the Grand Nephew of President Macron's wife, Brigitte, attacked.... And on Thursday a media stir over posters of Emmanuel Macron put on display the night before. The posters depicting Macron with a Hitler moustache... Friday brought a ruling from an Administrative Court in Lille against the government for keeping a file on people arrested during the protests against pension reform... And What About The Notion Of An Active "Far-Right"...

Mission impossible ? Declare it isn't so ! For you are My Joseph and Daniels that will always go !!! Being the spear head and sword I can always count on, Deep behind enemy lines defeating and then carrying on, Bringing the spoils of the enemy, Back to the righteous for all to see, You move with the force of water in the form of The Lord as an invisible mirage, My spirit is your camouflage, Returning from battle with nothing left undone, I AM as your shield of Virtue that the cross has already won, Now to their surprise...

Notre-Dame Cathedral reconstruction on track, French youth rebuild wayside "Calvaries" Deo Gratias!Remember where you were when you learned that Notre-Dame was in flames? Since then, a massive reconstruction project has been underway and is apparently on schedule. The head of the construction site, ex-general Jean-Louis Georgelin, sees great progress in construction:"Thanks to strict planning, we are confident and determined to make the Paris cathedral open to worship and the public again in December 2024."Examinations of the building's infrastructure have shown that the cathedral's walls have remained stable despite the major fire, as have most of the vaults. The stained glass...

A closed-door meeting of left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was held on January 16, 2003, in Washington, D.C. to consider how to apply international financial pressure through a global tax on the U.S. Bruno Jetin, a representative of ATTAC France, spoke to the gathering and acknowledged in private conversation that his group works hand-in-glove with the French Communist Party and the "Socialist parties on the Left." A representative of the embassy of France in the U.S. was listed as a participant. ATTAC stands for the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens. The International ATTAC Movement...

France pledged additional military aid for Ukraine on Sunday, including light tanks, armored vehicles, training for soldiers and other assistance as the Ukrainians gear up for a counteroffensive against Russian forces, following surprise talks in Paris between the Ukrainian and French presidents. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and France’s Emmanuel Macron met for about three hours at the French presidential Elysee Palace — an encounter kept under wraps until shortly before the Ukrainian leader’s arrival in Paris from Germany on a French government jet, extending his multi-stop European tour. With Ukraine planning to go on the offensive hoping to retake Russian-occupied territory,...

It happened a week ago today in Paris. A rally of a "Far-Right" group in Paris that got no attention till after the fact but by Monday it became a big story in the Mainstream Media. Was it a staged event like the ones here in the US of the so-called "Patriot Front"? Accounts Minister Gabriel Attal suggested last Tuesday that some of those protesting last weekend were associated with the National Rally of Marine Le Pen. Earlier in the week Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin director local prefects of police to ban "far right" protests... Meanwhile on Friday a festive...

This fall, Édouard Manet’s famed 1863 painting Olympia will travel from Paris to New York for the first time. Olympia, among other works by Manet, will be on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning September 24. The show, aptly titled “Manet/Degas,” pairs Manet with his fellow Frenchman, one-time friend, and rival, the enigmatic Edgar Degas. The show, which comes to New York after a run at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, examines a radical period of French painting through the lens of the artists’ tempestuous bond. Related Articles Two images of chandeliers that appear to be made of...

May Day is a traditional day of Leftist and Labor Union protests in France. But this year the demonstrations amplified by opposition to President Emmanuel Macron's imposition of pension reform without legislative approval. 2.3 million people protesting nationwide according to the CGT labor union federation while the Ministry of the Interior says the number was less than a million. The government and the mainstream media didn't make much of the peaceful nature of the huge crowds but chose to seize upon January 6th style incidents of vandalism involving the usual suspects black uniformed anarchists. Arrests and injuries to police highlighted...

"There are no taboos and we are working intensively on it". Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte talking about F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine... "The United States became a direct participant of this conflict long ago"...Some of the words coming from Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov... White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby says that the US neither encourages nor enables Ukraine... In Kiev tonight explosions and fire following an air raid warning...It turned out that a single Ukrainian drone was out of control... In the midst of an inflation rate exceeding 100 percent Argentina's mint rushing new 2000 peso...

PARIS, May 1 (Reuters) - French police clashed with black-clad anarchists in Paris and other big cities during trade union-organised protests against President Emmanuel Macron's increase in the retirement age, as workers joined Labour Day rallies across Europe. In the French capital, police were pelted with projectiles, ride-sharing bicycles were torched and bus stops smashed up just as the union-led march got underway from the central Place de la Republique. Unrest also erupted in Lyon, where several vehicles were set ablaze and some business premises were trashed, television images showed. In Nantes in western France, a fire blazed in front...

This week Emmanuel Macron encountered various kinds of protests as he attempted to tour France and tout his concern for teachers (higher pay) and health care among other issues. But everywhere he went there was dissent ranging from the clanging of pots and pans to up close conversations challenging him regarding the issue that is unresolved. The issue of him imposition of pension reform without a National Assembly vote including the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64. Other cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne greeted with the: "Concert de Casseroles" translated into English: "Concert of...

Afghanistan was not a one-off. Leaving Americans behind enemy lines has become the new normal.“It is not our standard procedure to evacuate American citizens living abroad,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday.Now the media is tentatively pointing out that most other countries, from the UK and France, to India and Italy are evacuating their people. America stands alone in disgracefully refusing to do so. And that’s entirely on Biden.Despite a number of nations evacuating their citizens, the US government has continued to say that the conditions are not conducive to a civilian evacuation. All US government personnel...

French President Emmanuel Macron is now travelling around France with his own electric generator as protesting French unions keep cutting off power during his regional visits, a report claims. Under massive pressure as a result of his controversial pension reforms, Macron is currently undertaking a public-relations blitz in France in the hopes of rallying the general public to his side. However, his whistle-stop tours of various regions across the country have not been going well, with the President’s visits often being met with protesters noisily banging pots and pans in the hopes of derailing the PR stunt.

Archaeologists in northwest France have unearthed what may have been a temple to the Roman war god Mars, dating to the first century B.C....was part of a Roman complex spread over more than 17 acres (7 hectares) that was discovered last year at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz, Brittany...La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz has been recognized for its wealth of archaeological remains since the 1970s, and it was first excavated in the 1990s, Labaune-Jean said. The latest excavations started in 2022.The site is slightly elevated, with a commanding view of the Rennes basin...Archaeologists believe the site was dedicated to Mars after discovering a bronze statuette of...

The president reacted to the concerts of saucepans that have accompanied each trip of ministers for a week. According to him, disagreements must be expressed "in a purely democratic and respectful framework." After a trip to Loir-et-Cher where demonstrators were again waiting for the president with pans to protest against the pension reform Emmanuel Macron judged that it was not a "great sign of democratic life." "I never thought that covering the voice of the other with sound with utensils was a wonderful sign of democratic life," the president said...

The headline in Sunday’s Ottawa Citizen was strange: “‘The ordeal’ is not over for Hassan Diab after French court sentences him to life in prison.” Clearly, the Citizen’s sympathy is with Diab, despite the fact that he must have been convicted of something extremely serious to warrant being given life in prison. And the Citizen is not alone.Hassan Diab is a darling of the Leftist political and media establishment, despite the fact that the crime he was convicted of committing was the bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris during Shabbat services on Oct. 3, 1980. Four people were...