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Quebec Still Longs for Its Lost Hockey Team, a Nationalist Symbol

Ever since the Quebec Nordiques decamped in 1995, leaving a hole in the Francophone city, vote-seeking officials have vowed to…

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‘The Three Musketeers’ and the Joy of Old-School Blockbusters

With its practical effects and broad-minded approach to story, the French franchise revives the pleasures of earlier movie spectacles, but…

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An Abandoned Cemetery Highlights a Painful Colonial Episode for France

Nestled amid the vineyards in a picturesque region of southwestern France known for its sweet wines and goat cheeses is…

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Michel Ciment, Eminent French Film Critic, Is Dead at 85

He helped define cinema as high art for generations of moviegoers and filmmakers in France and beyond, even if he…

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How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment at France, Africans are contributing to…

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France Scoffs at an Englishman’s ‘Napoleon’

French critics considered Ridley Scott’s new biopic lazy, pointless, boring, migraine-inducing, too short and historically inaccurate. And that’s just to…

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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94

He led a movement that rejected historiography’s traditional emphasis on great events and leaders in favor of mining the “mental…

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A French Politician Refuses to Be Silent in the Face of Antisemitism

Yaël Braun-Pivet, a secular Jew, cherishes the French ideal of a national identity that subsumes ethnic division — and speaks…

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Napoleon’s Hat Sells for $2.1 Million at Auction in France

The black bicorn hat, believed to have belonged to the 19th century French emperor, had been expected to sell for…

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French Judges Issue Warrant for Assad in Syria War Crimes Case

The warrant relates to the deadly use of chemical weapons and is a major step to hold President Bashar al-Assad…

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