(For Veteran’s Day – a reprise post from 2018) There is a lovely little classical piece by Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin, composed shortly after the end of the war, five of the six mov...
The Year of the French, by Thomas Flanagan (This being St Patrick’s day, I’m again taking advantage of the hook to re-post this review, in the hope of inspiring a few more people to read this...
When the rage of downtrodden French peasants, living-on-the-edge city dwellers and frustrated bourgeois towards the ruling nobles and royalty final exploded into a kind of civic wildfire, there w...
A post by Joel Kotkin, at Quillette, projects a future in which Europe and Asia eclipse the US. And a response by Stuart Schneiderman: The Coming Eurasian Century. Read and discuss.
Andre Beaufre, later a general, was in 1940 a young Captain on the French general staff. He had been selected for this organization a few years earlier, and had originally been very pleased to ...
I recently read a history of the French Air Force–The Rise and Fall of the French Air Force, Greg Baughen–which includes much analysis of aircraft design and construction. One historical f...
I am taking some (well deserved) time off around the Holidays, and would like to read up on the German occupation of France during WW2. I know it is a big subject but just let ‘er rip. Thanks i...
President Biden’s bizarre behavior during media appearances reminds me of something. The British general Edward Spears, who was Churchill’s personal emissary to the French Army during the ...
France brings out a SARS-CoV variant of leprostigma by fiat. Now where did I put my clapper and bell? You know that funny feeling when the head of State addresses the nation and declares that you...
A funny thing happened on the way to the Great Reset. A couple of weeks ago, members of the french army—about 20 generals, a hundred high-ranking officers and more than a thousand various ranks...