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Agnes C. Poirier

8 months

Like the rest of France, I couldn’t wait for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Then I actually saw it | Agnès Poirier

Like the rest of France, I couldn’t wait for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Then I actually saw it |...

I took my seat expecting a masterful take on French history. Instead, we got an industrial-grade sex-and-battles disaster, says critic and writer Agnès Poirier

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

Dawn in Paris. #NotreDame is still standing. Hurt yet magnificent.

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Worth reading The French president’s statement about Elizabeth II. Remarkable.

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France will thank medical heroes fighting on the frontline against coronavirus everyday at 8pm. Tonight was the first evening. Filmed from Paris’ s 13th arrondissement Chinese quarter.

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5 years

Who did this? Brilliant #BorisJohnson

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Yesterday, those carpenters completed #NotreDame ’s framework! (Pic David Bordes)

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Yesterday, the youngest carpenter of #NotreDame , the 19-year-old Leonard, tied the traditional bouquet on top of the completed nave roof.

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Look at this. Isn’t she still the most beautiful? #NotreDame

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29 days

Chimera ascending in the sky of Paris #NotreDame (Pic David Bordes)

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8 years

Wow. The crowd on #Nice Promenade for the minute of silence.

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And here is the restored ornemental cross, only piece of #NotreDame ’s roof that survived the fire, ready to travel from Normandy to Paris and be fixed on the apse!

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Simone Barreto-Silva was 44, and worked as a carer for elderly people. She was murdered at Notre Dame basilica in Nice yesterday morning by a 21 year-old Islamist. Her last words to the medics who tried to save her: «Tell my children that I love them » RIP

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2 years

Boris Johnson’s bragging isn’t fooling anyone. The Ukrainian crisis shows how Brexit has isolated Britain, in Le Monde 👇

Le Brexit isole le Royaume-Uni dans la crise ukrainienne

ANALYSE. La guerre menée par Poutine a renforcé l’unité de l’Union européenne. A côté, le gouvernement britannique, certes fort en mots, paraît bien timoré dans ses actes.

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3 years

A #Parisian café unchanged since 1954 on Boulevard St Germain, owned by the same family since 1930. Not chichi, nor bobo, not even chic, just perfect. Le Rouquet.

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4 years

To our wonderful allies, our eternal gratitude #DDay

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4 years

This level of lies and propaganda is truly shocking.

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4 years

The grumpy mood in France « We have stopped kissing each other and now we will have to have dinner at 6pm. It’s a British disease, not a Chinese one! »

Guillaume 🇫🇷🇮🇹 papa le + mignon selon Junior

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on a donc arrêté de se faire la bise et maintenant on va manger à 18h00. C’est pas un virus chinois, c’est un virus anglais.

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2 years

The Union Jack has been placed in front of Paris’s Elysées Palace, next to French flags. (Via ⁦ @PaoneAntony ⁩)

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5 years

Firemen say #NotreDame ’s structure is now considered safe, the North tower has been saved. One fireman severely injured. Roof almost entirely destroyed. Upper rose windows melted. The fate of the lower big rose windows dating back to 1260 is yet unknown.

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10 months

To hear « vive le roi ! » in French and in the streets of Paris is properly vertiginous. #CharlesInParis

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10 months

This friendship.

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4 years

Look at her. Isn’t she lovely ? Her name was Nicole, she was a formidable Parisienne. She left us today. Adieu, maman.

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1 year

Oh the beauty of it. #NotreDame 's roof trusses are arriving by barge on the Seine River. (Pics David Bordes©Rebâtir Notre-Dame de Paris)

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6 months

Here is the lucky bouquet tier !

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6 years

Striking to see that EU leaders, one after the other, speaks of the sadness felt at seeing a friend (Britain)leave, and when British PM asked if she feels the same, she replies: « No ». #Brexit

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2 years

Now, normal service can resume in France.

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I interviewed Françoise Hardy for The New York Times in 2018. At the end of our long conversation, I asked her what was, in her view, the most perfect song. I wasn't surprised to hear her say: “If I must choose only one song in the whole world, I would choose Charles Trenet’s Que

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4 years

This, from @washingtonpost is insane and a lie. No, Macron is not going to give Muslim kids a special ID number. 4 years of Trump have corroded American minds.

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3 years

I don’t think Downing Street realizes that every Presidential candidate is in favour of ending the Touquet agreement, except President Macron. If I were Boris Johnson, I would change tack. Fast.

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Break : @MichelBarnier saying it's time to rescind the Touquet agreement and "let people who wish to claim asylum in the UK go there and do so" He also says it's clear the UK isn't respecting the Brexit deal "which I know very well" on fishing or N Ireland @BFMTV @AureCasse

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6 years

Greeting Putin in Paris this morning. Three faces.

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10 months

Getting carried away, are we?

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2 years

« We have loved her so »

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4 years

I have a wild dream: that all museums are used as vaccinodromes and that we all take our turn in an immense queue, surrounded by art. I picture myself getting my jab in the Louvre in the Ancient Mesopotamia rooms under a winged bull. You?

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8 months

Notre-Dame: we are getting there. (Pic Patrick Zachmann)

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4 years

Jean-Paul Gaultier & mask

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2 years

So that you know.

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2 months

What a day this has been What a rare mood I’m in #NotreDame

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3 months

Soon to find its place back on the roof of #NotreDame … For the moment, they are in Normandy with their master ornemental roofers. Paying them a visit today!

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2 years

@IAPonomarenko Agreed, we are all tired of knowing about Macron’s latest conversation with Putin. As for voting for him, have you seriously looked at the alternative, Illia? I will always prefer someone who talks with Putin to people who take orders from Putin.

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4 years

On board Italian trains, passengers are handed out a mask, gloves and hydro alcoholic gel and water. Bravo #Trenitalia !

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3 years

President Macron to @NYTimesCohen Impeccable.

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1 year

Jane Birkin is now reunited with Serge Gainsbourg. RIP

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4 years

I remember when this was called Maoism.

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RIP Anouk Aimée

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To our magnificent allies, our eternal gratitude. #DDay80

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5 years

PS: Britain, it’s coup d’État, with a capital E, please.

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Meet A sharp Gabriel, one of the restored bells of #NotreDame Patiently waiting in Normandy for its close-up

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9 years

Remember this man. #KhaledAsaad . Tortured and beheaded for refusing to reveal cache of #Palmyra artefacts. A hero http://t.co/2VJG3NLmqX

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4 years

The @washingtonpost et al. are endangering French lives with their fabrications.

France Diplomacy 🇫🇷🇪🇺

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Any so-called information pertaining to alleged intent to register children being schooled in France based on religion, belief or origin, is absolutely false.

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5 years

On June 15, I made public on Twitter serious threats I received for my views on Brexit expressed on the BBC. For this, Twitter locked me out of my account. I appealed, in vain. Tweet deleted. Twitter implicity advocates for victims of online violence to shut up. Yuck

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3 months

And #NotreDame ’s architect and head honcho, Philippe Villeneuve and Philippe Jost, get to strike Bell Etienne.

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3 years

#Paris now

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3 years

To our magnificent allies, our eternal gratitude. #DDay #6juin1944

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5 years

And now, my friends, I give you Victor Hugo’s writing den which he designed entirely. He wrote standing up, looking towards France. And that includes Les Misérables #HautevilleHouse #Guernsey #VictorHugoInExile

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5 years

Here are the 500 who saved #NotreDame . Well done, lads. Eternal gratitude.

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5 years

Now in Paris: First mass in #NotreDame ... in hard hats!

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2 months

"Dangerously French"? 🥸

Labour workers’ rights are dangerously French, Tories say

Labour’s plans to improve workers’ rights are too costly, the Conservatives will claim, as the two parties clash over the economy

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2 years

"The British aversion to the French seems all the more perverse given la république’s extraordinary reaction to the passing of Britain’s longest-serving monarch (...)" Indeed. Well said @JournoStephen

In praise of France's tributes to the Queen

The death of Elizabeth II has reacquainted Britain with all the cherished irrationalities that make us who we are. Hereditary monarchy. Unfathomable pageantry. Democratic grief. The joy taken in...

www.spectator.co.uk

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8 years

You might as well know that #BorisJohnson was booed today at French ambassador's #BastilleDay reception in London.His 'charm' left them cold

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3 years

Mayor Anne Hidalgo's push to 'green' Paris is turning one of the world's most beautiful cities into an urban wasteland. #SaccageParis

Resisting the saccage of Paris

Mayor Anne Hidalgo's push to 'green' Paris is turning one of the world's most beautiful cities into an urban wasteland.

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Almost four weeks after spine surgery, I can walk again. A joy like no other for this flâneuse. Passing such remarkable trees (a Lebanese cedar planted in 1734, the only one of its kind in France) adds to the elation.

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2 years

France is not only going to freeze but SEIZE Russian oligarchs' assets (and that of their immediate family): properties, yachts, cash, etc.

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🗣 Sanctions contre les oligarques russes ➡️ Le ministre de l’Economie annonce avoir mis en place une “task force pour repérer l’ensemble des oligarques russes” en France, et ainsi geler et surtout “saisir les avoirs”. Il promet de “toucher au cœur le pouvoir russe.”

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3 years

And God created #Paris 6th arrondissement on a 15th of August at 8.30am..

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2 years

The map you have all been waiting for. The regions in France where there are more cows than inhabitants (in yellow). Via @JulesGrandin

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3 years

10 minutes later. #Paris

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2 years

No filter Brittany now

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2 years

« Nous sommes avec vous. »

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To you, she was your Queen. To us, she was The Queen. She will be with all of us forever.

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6 months

Looks like President Macron and his PM Gabriel Attal are about to soft shoe shuffle like in a 1930s Fred Astaire musical.

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3 years

Bloody hell. #Paris Now

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6 years

By the way, there was another demonstration in Paris today with four times more people than #GiletsJaunes Called #MarchePourLeClimat it aims to fight climate change. Went smoothly.

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4 years

Starting tomorrow, the cutting of the 40,000 molten tubes above #NotreDame . Rope technicians armed with saber saws will perform this most perilous job hanging from 80 metre high crane. #Wow

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4 years

Caffè Florian opened on this day in 1720... May it reopen soon #Venice

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3 years

Frankly, he couldn't give a fig.

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‘He is seething at Britain not collapsing after Brexit, consumed with jealousy at Britain’s vaccination roll-out and bitter at Britain’s early discovery of a vaccine.’ ✍️ John Keiger on Macron

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2 years

By @mortenmorland

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5 years

« France is heaven inhabited by people who think they live in hell. »

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« La France est un paradis peuplé de gens qui croient vivre en enfer ».

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3 years

From now on, call me « Angus Warrior »

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3 years

Automated subtitling @BBCBreakfast not getting @AgnesCPoirier right, inadvertently setting a particular tone to Anglo-French relationships

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4 years

Laïcité (poorly translated as Secularism) is not State Atheism. Can somebody send French history books to the @NewYorker desk? This could actually save lives.

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4 years

After the ignoble murder of #SamuelPaty who died for doing his job and enlightening his pupils, the French wake up this morning thinking of their History teachers who made them who they are: free thinkers and citizens. Mine was called Pierre de Panafieu, a truly splendid teacher

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5 months

Alexei Navalny, le courage incarné.

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Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has died, Russian media report, citing the prison service

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4 years

Say what you will but this is how the idea of the reunification of Ireland is, little by little, getting more real.

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7 years

Are you ready for it? #Paris voted Macron at 92% #Voila

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2 years

The Paris métro station « Argentine » has been renamed for the day… (via @hortense_crepin ) #FRAARG

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2 years

« Mbappé was a silhouette of perfect poise and balance, his body hovering in a graceful horizontal, his standing foot en pointe,his other leg perfectly extended at the moment for which he was anointed. An invitation to immortality had fallen from the sky. ⁦ @JamesGheerbrant ⁩

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8 years

Superb interview by @achrisafis of Maryse Wolinski, wife of a murdered #CharlieHebdo cartoonist

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Dancer and résistante Josephine Baker to rest at the Pantheon alongside Curie, Voltaire and Hugo. Extraordinary news.

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4 years

Chinese plane full of masks paid for by France was about to take off when it suddenly changed destination: American agents on the tarmac offered twice the price in cash...

FRANCE 24 Français

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4 years

Coronavirus : des masques commandés par la France rachetés "sur le tarmac" par les Américains

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4 years

A very small thing, of course, but the parvis of #NotreDame has reopened to the public for the first time since the fire on 15 April 2019.

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4 years

Paris under a thin layer of snow. Now.

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5 months

Done. France is the first country to enshrine the right to abortion in its Constitution.

franceinfo

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🔴 DIRECT - 🗣️ Le Congrès vote l'inscription de l'IVG dans la Constitution à 780 voix pour.

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6 years

Who needs Trump (sulking in front of Fox News in his Paris hotel) when you have Merkel and Macron honouring the Great War’s soldiers?

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3 years

One last shot for the road. Montparnasse and Eiffel towers in conversation. Happy New Year, les amis!

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4 years

Wait, this from a journalist and editor at @GuardianUS and @WSJ ?

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4 years

Paris, 9am.

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5 years

That’s my London! Avec une défense de narval (décrochée pour l’occasion du Hall des Poissonniers à deux pas) et un extincteur, des Londoniens terrassent le terroriste. #LondonBridge

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5 years

Saying loudly what a whole continent thinks.

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

5 years

The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, says that he wonders "what the special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it safely...”