ONE, the NGO fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease, has enlisted artists from around the world to play the characters in Pandemica, an animated mini-series that exposes inequities in access to Covid-19 vaccines.
In a lawsuit filed with the public prosecutor in Paris on 22 march 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accuses Facebook of “deceptive commercial practices” on the grounds that the social media company’s promises to provide a “safe” and “error-free” online environment are contradicted by the large-scale proliferation of hate speech and false information on its networks.
At the beginning of the 21st century, a Ukrainian scientist, Dr. Sergei Gorbenko, claimed to have discovered the remains of the Virgin Mary in the Basilica of Cléry-Saint-André, near Orléans. One more fake news?
Jeanne didn’t die at the stake in Rouen. The proof? She reappears five years later and leads a well-informed public life as attested by numerous documents.
The eventful life of The Maid is well known. Yet it lasted only a little over two years.
The ploy of the envoy from heaven to save the kingdom of France was conceived by an exceptional woman: Yolande of Aragon, Duchess of Anjou, Queen of the Four Kingdoms. The operation was masterfully executed by another exceptional woman: the Pucelle d’Orléans.
To understand the Johannine epic, we must go back to the context of the Hundred Years’ War and find out why Joan wanted, one fine day in 1428, to go and meet the king.
No, Joan of Arc was not a shepherdess, no she did not die on a great pyre in Rouen, no she was not called d’Arc, but Joan the Virgin. To put an end to the fake news of the 15th century that our historians have been indiscriminately repeating ever since.
Claude Vautrin’s latest book, Sept voyages initiatiques, published by Kaïros*, takes us to distant lands where the visible world and the invisible sphere meet. Journeys to better understand others and, therefore, to better know oneself. A must read.
… and the French-speaking world, from March 14 to 22, 2020. It is a celebration of the French language in all its diversity.
The Ecole de Nancy has left us an exceptional legacy, including the Villa Majorelle, now owned by the City of Nancy.
Presented at the Deauville Festival and produced by actress Geena Davis, Tom Donahue’s documentary is devoted to parity in cinema.
