The return of Arsène Lupin
An interview with Omar Sy, the charismatic star of the popular Netflix series Lupin, talks about his huge international success and dealing with racism in France. (The Guardian)
Frenchman wins International Booker Prize
David Diop‘s novel At Night All Blood is Black, about a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in World War I, has won the International Booker Prize for translated fiction, along with translator Anna Moschovakis. (The Conversation)
Tourists now welcome in France
As of today, most foreign tourists with proof of full vaccination will be allowed back into France. (Euronews)
Centre Pompidou crosses the Atlantic
Jersey City will soon be home to an outpost of Paris’s famed modern art museum, which already has branches in Málaga, Brussels, Shanghai and Metz, France. (Artnews)
Nineteenth-century ice-skating craze
Summer ice skating was a huge thrill in 1876 when the first indoor rink opened in Paris in 1876. (Smithsonian Magazine)
Left-wing rabble-rouser
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a loose-cannon left-wing politician, is once again spouting weird theories. (France 24)
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