Diane de Vignemont

je continue ! super dessin :)

@diane2v.bsky.social bonjour, si vous continuez sur Charles, dessin du jour, avec les palmes

Affiche féministe de soutien à Gisèle Pelicot en turc: « la honte est sur eux »

Cet après-midi à Nîmes s’ouvre le procès en appel des viols de Mazan, avec un seul accusé, Hüsamettin Dogan et un complice, Dominique Pelicot, devant un jury populaire de 9 personnes tirées au sort. Ça va être passionnant; j’essaierai d’en rendre compte en direct par ici #staytuned

A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi

NEW: Nicolas Sarkozy’s trial revealed much cloak-and-dagger intrigue around his connection to Libya’s Gadhafi regime. For the families of victims of a 1989 bomb attack, the stakes were personal, writes @diane2v.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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Gisele Pelicot: Finding Sisterhood at France’s Mass Rape Trial An Avignon courthouse has become a site of pilgrimage for French women seeking catharsis and community

One of Gisèle Pelicot's rapists is appealing his guilty verdict next week. This time around, he'll face a jury of his peers.
Editors looking to commission a story: please reach out! I covered the Pelicot trial last year, and just got accreditation for the retrial
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Epstein’s birthday book and the girls with no names On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums

As Trump pays us a visit, @diane2v.bsky.social writes for @prospectmagazine.co.uk about the central cruelty of Epstein's birthday book, a "catalogue of innuendo from the world’s most powerful men, immortalised in leather, as if misogyny were a collectible" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

Epstein’s birthday book and the girls with no names On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums

When Epstein’s birthday book was revealed, people could only talk about the men who contributed to it. But the book was filled with women, and with girls. What about them?

Thanks to @diane2v.bsky.social for writing this for @prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Epstein’s birthday book and the girls with no names On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums

Epstein survivors demanded a client list. Instead, these empowered women got a scrapbook filled with pictures of the naked bodies of the trafficked girls they used to be.
My latest, for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, on the central cruelty of the “birthday book.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

Epstein’s birthday book and the girls with no names On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums

Epstein survivors demanded a client list. Instead, these empowered women got a scrapbook filled with pictures of the naked bodies of the trafficked girls they used to be.
My latest, for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, on the central cruelty of the “birthday book.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

Diane de VIGNEMONT Paris-based journalist covering politics and history.

Hi Ziya!
I'm a Paris-based French freelance journalist. I mostly write for American and British magazines.
I'm also currently working on a book centred around a trans French Resistance heroine!
I'd love to keep in touch and work together in the fall :) dianedevignemont.com

Four Decades After His Imprisonment, France Can’t Stop Fighting Over Georges Abdallah The Lebanese militant’s release is dividing the country — and not for the first time

Georges Abdallah just landed in Beirut after 40 years in French prisons. In my latest for @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I report on what the freedom and continued incarceration of the “public enemy #1” of the 1980s have meant for a deeply divided France.
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/fo...

Four Decades After His Imprisonment, France Can’t Stop Fighting Over Georges Abdallah The Lebanese militant’s release is dividing the country — and not for the first time

My latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
The Lebanese militant Georges Abdallah, who has been incarcerated in France for 40 years, was released today. His freedom and the question of what his incarceration meant have deeply divided the nation. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/fo...

‘Gulag of the Pyrenees’: France’s Catholic school shame A historic abuse scandal at an elite French institution has consumed the country—and exposes a national failure to safeguard children

“Two parental complaints were for slaps so harsh they had shattered eardrums.” @diane2v.bsky.social on how a historic abuse scandal at an elite French institution consumed the country.
www.prospectmagazine...

so, my partner @phineasjfr.bsky.social and I made a wild discovery in Greg Grandin’s new book

@diane2v.bsky.social is on fire with her articles lately.

Thanks Alexia! That means a lot 😊

A Historian Surveys the Wreckage in Gaza French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu has visited Gaza many times — but he had to make his most recent visit in December in secret. Defying Israel’s attempt to control reporting, his latest book is a dev...

My latest, for @jacobinmag.bsky.social
Jean-Pierre Filiu’s latest book, A Historian in Gaza, weaves together local testimonies and his own historical expertise on the region into a searing eyewitness account of what the war is doing to the territory and its people jacobin.com/2025/07/fili...

A Historian Surveys the Wreckage in Gaza French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu has visited Gaza many times — but he had to make his most recent visit in December in secret. Defying Israel’s attempt to control reporting, his latest book is a dev...

My latest, for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
Jean-Pierre Filiu's new book, A Historian in Gaza, weaves together local testimonies and his own historical expertise on the region into a searing eyewitness account of what the war is doing to the territory and its people.
jacobin.com/2025/07/fili...

‘Gulag of the Pyrenees’: France’s Catholic school shame A historic abuse scandal at an elite French institution has consumed the country—and exposes a national failure to safeguard children

A historic abuse scandal at an elite French institution has consumed the country—and exposes a national failure to safeguard children, writes @diane2v.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine...

‘Gulag of the Pyrenees’: France’s Catholic school shame A historic abuse scandal at an elite French institution has consumed the country—and exposes a national failure to safeguard children

A historic abuse scandal at an elite French institution has consumed the country—and exposes a national failure to safeguard children, writes @diane2v.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine...

‘Gulag of the Pyrenees’: France’s Catholic school shame A historic abuse scandal at an elite French institution has consumed the country—and exposes a national failure to safeguard children

"For decades, almost no one complained. When someone did, they were either silenced or ignored. This was Bétharram, after all. Violence was part of the curriculum"

@diane2v.bsky.social on the scandal that has consumed France and exposed a national failure

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

The Le Pen succession crisis Does the National Rally leader’s conviction spell the end of a family dynasty?

"The spectacle of Marine Le Pen’s downfall has the trappings of a political drama: the courtroom, the damning verdict, the righteous declarations of persecution. And...the inevitable succession crisis."

@diane2v.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk!

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

The Le Pen succession crisis Does the National Rally leader’s conviction spell the end of a family dynasty?

While some see justice served in the Le Pen decision, they also know this: her family dynasty might be over, but her movement is far from finished, writes @diane2v.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine...

Quelle merveille !
Je vais pouvoir porter haut les couleurs 😂👻
Poke @alexjubelin.bsky.social @olivierschmitt.bsky.social 😉

Gisele Pelicot: Finding Sisterhood at France’s Mass Rape Trial An Avignon courthouse has become a site of pilgrimage for French women seeking catharsis and community

1️⃣5️⃣ Enfin, en décembre, et toujours pour @newlinesmag.bsky.social, j'ai assisté au procès des viols de Mazan, et à l'extraordinaire sororité montrée par Gisèle Pélicot aux victimes de VSS - et vice versa newlinesmag.com/spotlight/gi...

How an American Film in 1984 Shaped the ‘Fetal Personhood’ Movement The success of the movie ‘The Silent Scream,’ made by onetime abortionist Bernard Nathanson, continues to influence the pro-life narrative

1️⃣4️⃣ Pour @newlinesmag.bsky.social, je signe un long papier sur l'histoire de la ‘personnalité juridique’ du fetus. En 1984, un gynécologue filme un avortement et en tire un film, Le Cri Silencieux, qui entend révéler au grand public la souffrance du fetus avorté. newlinesmag.com/essays/how-a...

How Argentina’s Disappeared Took Center Stage in Paris Some three decades after their own resistance won support in Buenos Aires, the French repaid the honor

1️⃣3️⃣ Plus de 30 ans après l'épopée française libre à Buenos Aires, la résistance argentine s'est à son tour organisée à Paris. @phineasjfr.bsky.social et moi revenons sur cet exil et sur l'histoire de ce mouvement transnational & artistique pour @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/how-a...

How Exiles in Argentina Shaped France’s Resistance to Nazi Occupation During WWII, a Latin American network fought to liberate their homeland from afar, with Buenos Aires — the Paris of South America — at the heart of a transnational movement

1️⃣2️⃣ Toujours pour @newlinesmag.bsky.social, @phineasjfr.bsky.social et moi signons notre premier article à quatre mains: ¡Viva la Resistencia! Comment les exilés français en Argentine ont construit la propagande de la France libre newlinesmag.com/essays/how-e...

The French Left Is United, Not for the First Time The New Popular Front echoes the politics of the 1930s, but what can be learned from the historical parallels?

1️⃣1️⃣ En juillet, pour @newlinesmag.bsky.social, j'ai interrogé trois historien·nes des années trente sur les leçons que le Nouveau Front Populaire peut tirer de l'expérience de son prédécesseur. newlinesmag.com/essays/the-f...