Frances

Why is no one listening to French students?

A small French media outlet is – and it turns out they have a lot to say

Shein in Paris

A French investigation dissects the controversial alliance between Shein and BHV owner Frédéric Merlin

Beats of conspiracy

French rapper Freeze Corleone embodies how conspiracy theories and recycled anti-Masonic tropes seep into youth culture through underground rap

One must cultivate one’s own garden

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

Bust-up in Bordeaux

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

Warm waters, closing nets

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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