A French investigation dissects the controversial alliance between Shein and BHV owner Frédéric Merlin In Mediapart, journalist Mathias Thépot reports on the explosive arrival of the Chinese ultra-fast-fashion giant Shein inside Paris’s...
French rapper Freeze Corleone embodies how conspiracy theories and recycled anti-Masonic tropes seep into youth culture through the underground rap scene. In his essay “Rap et anti-maçonnerie, étude d’un cas...
In a working-class suburb of Paris, a decades-old allotment area is under threat. The fight to save the Jardins ouvriers des Vertus is more than just a tussle between gardeners...
Short work at one of Cognac’s ‘Big Three’. France’s cognac industry is buckling under the double whammy of tariffs and other trade measures placed on it by China and the...
How climate change is driving dolphins into deadly contact with fishing fleets in the Bay of Biscay In this article for the French daily newspaper Libération, journalist Julie Renson Miquel reports...
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