With the help of a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities, French literature and history scholar Katherine Dauge-Roth is in France over the break, exploring how attitudes toward ...

Renaissance astronomers, medical doctors, and laypeople saw the moon as a force to be reckoned with, whose power extended not only to the tides, but regulated the flow of all things wet on earth, ...

From life expectancy and standard of living to inequality and poverty, here are some figures from a new annual report that give a portrait of life modern France. France’s National Institute for ...

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In the aftermath of France's World Cup win, hasty parallels have been drawn with 1998, the last time "Les Bleus" won the trophy. But DW's Matt Ford says that's history; this was a modern triumph for a ...

From life expectancy and standard of living to inequality and poverty, here are some figures from a new annual report that give a portrait of life in modern France. France's National Institute for ...

The French & Francophone Studies program is delighted to announce the publication of Prof. Michael Leruth's new book Modern France: Understanding Modern Nations (ABC-CLIO 2022). This volume offers ...

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On August 25th, 1944—the day Paris was liberated—General de Gaulle delivered one of the most important speeches in the history of modern France. Its conclusion: “We, who have lived the greatest hours ...

Ten years after his death, François Mitterrand still evokes passions in France, but a new film only scratches the surface of … Ten years after his death, François Mitterrand still evokes passions in ...