December 5, 2019: Is it happening or is it breaking?
Will the executive smash itself on pension reform like others before it? This is what this day of strikes and demonstrations is all about.
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Death of 13 French soldiers in Mali
Thirteen French soldiers from the Barkhane force died on Monday in the accidental collision of two helicopters during a combat operation against jihadists.
Violence of a « Chanson douce »
“It’s a thriller of everyday life,” says director Lucie Borleteau, who adapted Leïla Slimani’s book, … Read more
Glory to Guédiguian!
“If I were completely pessimistic, I wouldn’t make films,” says the filmmaker, who has written a heartbreaking work, “Gloria Mundi”, where two cultures, two generations, the solidarity of the elderly and the selfishness of the youngest collide.
Black December
The trade union front against pension reform intends to make December 5, 2019 a day of mobilization against the executive. But then what? Anything is possible… even the worst.
Plateau des Mille Etangs (70) : a petition against a quarry project
This project consists of mining an open-cast volcanic rock quarry for a period of 30 years over a total area of 13 ha for an annual production of 200,000 tonnes and a maximum of 250,000 tonnes per year.
Apprentices at the waiters’ school
Jacques Deschamps filmed for a year “Les petits maîtres du grand hôtel”, students and actors of a musical documentary.
The director followed the students of a school hotel in the kitchen, in the dining room and in the bedrooms.
Heritage Days: more than 12 million visitors!
Successful link between youth and heritage.
“Roxane”, my hen
With a peasant reciting verses in his henhouse, young director Mélanie Auffret’s debut film is a tenderly naive rural comedy.
The Omar Raddad case revived by science
Accused of killing Ghislaine Marchal on June 24, 1991, the gardener of the rich widow of an industrialist from Mougins, in the Var region, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. DNA samples belonging to four men, but not Omar Raddad, have just been found on the seals.
Chinese spies in Lorraine
Two Chinese spies were caught photographing a prototype engine in a General Electric subsidiary Champigneulles … Read more
Hidden history of Alsace and Moselle
By Jean-Philippe Maurer, deputy of the Lower Rhine Territorial reform raises tensions in France and especially in Alsace. France gives lessons in patriotism Alsatians. Unacceptable. Here is why.