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(Pic Isabel Infantes Reuters)

Wonderful #ArtDéco exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris!

What joy to walk past Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal walking in the streets of Paris’s Latin Quarter, free at last.

No, conditional release during appeal. He may end up behind bars for years.

I didn’t see it coming.
« Diary of a prisoner »…
Nicolas #Sarkozy’s three weeks in prison soon in a bookshop near you…

Interlude.
La couleur du café.

🙏

Understanding Jacques-Louis #David at last thanks to beautiful and enlightening exhibition at @museelouvre.bsky.social

The BBC must reform or face irrelevance.
In L'Express this week (in French) 👇
lexpress.envoy.gift/QLsnML

Forgot to post this here yesterday. All the bells in Paris ringing in unison in memory of the victims of the #Paris attacks ten years ago.

In memoriam. #ParisAttacks #13Novembre2015

France is commemorating today the 10th anniversary of the Paris attacks of November 2015. Here is how it enfolded hour by hour👇
(via @LeParisien_75 )

On a year of secret negotiations to free the great novelist Boualem Sansal : in @LEXPRESS tomorrow.

Boualem Sansal libéré, Alger « accepte » de gracier l’écrivain franco-algérien Arrêté en 2024, l’auteur avait été condamné en appel à cinq ans de réclusion pour avoir notamment déclaré que l’Algérie avait hérité sous la

leparisien.fr/politique/la... The great French-Algerian novelist #BoualemSansal finally freed, via @le_Parisien

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo "I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last."

"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last." n.pr/3WOLsWT

Swap Paris and Rome for one of these alternative autumn city breaks From Regensburg to Modica, these autumn getaways offer culture, cuisine — and none of the crowds

In which I write about the beauty of Saint Malo in Autumn👇 www.ft.com/content/9235...

Password for Louvre’s video surveillance system was ‘Louvre’ Since the jewel heist last month it has been revealed that experts warned over ten years ago that the museum’s CCTV and security network was not fit for purpose

Password for Louvre’s video surveillance system was ‘Louvre.’

www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Trivia. Nicolas #Sarkozy eats only #yogurts in prison, according to @LePoint. Is this a special Petit Filou diet?

And some in #France think we should #tax more… What about we spend less and better?
#Budget

"La Maison vide", de Laurent Mauvignier, est-il le chef-d’œuvre de la rentrée ? L'avis très tranché de notre critique Déjà vendu à plus de 60 000 exemplaires, ce livre est un des succès de la rentrée. Il a pourtant laissé une impression désagréable à notre critique, tant l’auteur y dénigre ses malheureux aïeux...

Call me contrarian but this (very critical) review of the Goncourt winning « La Maison Vide » is very funny. And rings true.
www.lexpress.fr/culture/livr...

Moulin Rouge forces closure of famed screenwriter’s Paris flat The preserved Montmartre property, home to Jacques Prévert in the 1950s, is shuttered as the cabaret venue plans to convert the building into a music hall

Bloody hell! The #MoulinRouge owner wants to destroy both the homes (now small museums) of poets #JacquesPrévert and #BorisVian which are open to the public and have been preserved by their respective families since their death.
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Agreed!

They were found thanks to their DNA

Cambriolage au Louvre : ce que l’on sait après l’interpellation de deux suspects Deux suspects ont été interpellés puis placés en garde à vue, samedi soir, dans le cadre de l’enquête sur le cambriolage du Louvre, qui a entraîné la disparition de huit bijoux royaux.

It is official, two of the four Louvre thieves have been arrested. The details here 👇 Cambriolage au Louvre : ce que l’on sait après l’interpellation de deux suspects lepoint.fr/tiny/1-2601781 #Société via @LePoint

Cambriolage au Louvre : « La fenêtre la plus célèbre du monde », nouvelle attraction touristique de Paris Une semaine après le cambriolage du célèbre musée parisien, et alors que l’enquête se poursuit, la fenêtre par laquelle sont passés les malf

The new spot for a selfie in Paris is .... Yes, there, at the Louvre, just at the corner where four schmucks used a ladder and then stole our Crown's jewels.
www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/cam...

How the Louvre museum heist unfolded The Louvre robbery: Which French crown jewels were stolen — and how did it happen?

"The guards did not try to intervene to stop them"
(They followed instructions to lead visitors to safety).
🤨
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Only 51% of French people want new elections today (they were 66% a fortnight ago). Sébastien Lecornu is doing well, or not that badly. #France

We French love our history teachers – Samuel Paty made us remember why | Agnès Poirier Religion struck another blow against freedom of thought with the vicious murder of a man whose mission was to civilise

We French love our history teachers – Samuel Paty made us remember why
In Memoriam #SamuelPaty
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not me !

My notebook in The Times

#France #Lecornu #Badinter #Pinault #MegWebster