. After France was liberated from the Nazis in 1944, a wave of retributions swept […]
Tag: France
When the Queen went to the Opera, 1957
When Queen Elizabeth paid France her first state visit in 1957, the manifestly Republican country welcomed her lavishly. Ceremonial parades lined up; the Royal Standard flew from the Elysees Palace. The choir of Notre Dame sang to her from the banks of the Seine as she sailed down it.
Promotion Voltaire
Political connections are often controversial — don’t look further than Bullingdon — and in France, […]
We’ll Always Have Paris
This photo of love-struck teenagers in a cruise ship on the Seine, with a faint Eiffel […]
Mitterrand’s Grand Entrance
(continued from yesterday) On May 21, 1981, eleven days after his election, Francois Mitterrand officially […]
“On Photography”
“Is photography art?” These days, we don’t normally question photography’s status as art, but […]
Sarkozy at Berlin Wall
Many world leaders claimed credit for tearing down the Berlin Wall metaphorically and thus ending […]
L’Affaire Dreyfus
No other issue divided France and other European countries more intensely in the last years […]
Paris Under Nazi Occupation by Andre Zucca, 1941
André Zucca was the only photographer to take colour photographs of Paris during the occupation. After working as a war correspondent for Paris Match and Paris Soir in 1939, he was requisitioned by the Germans to work for the propaganda magazine Signal.
Assassination of Paul Doumer
On 13th May 1932, Radical Paul Doumer defeated the pacifist Aristide Briand in the second […]