France's Geographic Challenge STRATFORvideo
YouTube 2012; Stratfor explains how France's natural geographic barriers have helped protect the country at all points along its border except one:...
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Why 1/3rd of France is Almost Empty
Why 1/3rd of France is Almost Empty
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Geography Now! France
YouTube: 2016: Look, I tried my best to pronounce everything correctly. Oh and Jaques Brel was actually Belgian, NOT French, my mistake. ENJOY!
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How Did France Become Military Superpower (Bigger than Russia)
🌍 After the Soviet Union's fall, geopolitics changed, but Europe's reliance on Russian energy backfired! France's self-sufficiency in energy and ar...
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Murder in the Mediterranean: Crime Writing on Corsica
Book Review, 2017: "We’ll take the Mediterranean island as a whole for this instalment of Crime and the City. Corsica has a criminal reputation to ...
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Why wolves are back in France - The Economist explains
RESIDENTS of Lozère, a hilly department in southern France, recite complaints familiar to many rural corners of Europe. In remote hamlets and villa...
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Emmanuel Macron is trying to change France’s psychology - Charlemagne: Exorcising Marx in France
STRANGE rituals have been taking place behind closed doors in Paris this summer. While much of Europe basked on the beach, elaborate rites and unfa...
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Why France and Italy can’t help clashing - Charlemagne
CAST your mind back to July 9th, 2006. Italy had just won the World Cup. Charlemagne was in Rome and joined the rumbustious football fans marching ...
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How France’s regions reflect the country’s diversity - Double fracture
“IT’S SIMPLE UNTIL you make it complicated”, reads a poster pinned to the wall of the hangout room. Purple and green cushions on the sofa are print...
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France launches its last high-speed rail lines - Going so fast
IT TAKES courage to mess with one of France’s most-loved brands. The public adores its TGV—Train à Grande Vitesse—as a symbol of modernity, and bec...
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How multilingual is France? | The Economist
“HOW can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?”, Charles de Gaulle once famously complained of France. In the wake of t...
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Military ties between Britain and France will not be shaken by Brexit - The Economist
IT WAS in his typical, headline-grabbing mode that Boris Johnson pitched the notion of building a bridge across the Channel. At least it served as ...
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Why the French are arguing over a small dot - The Economist explains
IN FRANCE, questions of language often touch off fiery national debates. Just last year reforms meant to simplify tricky spellings—including the op...
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How France redistributes more from rich to poor than Sweden - The Economist
More égalité than you might think WHEN EMMANUEL MACRON launches his promised “great national debate” on January 15th, he hopes to show a willing...
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The Yellow Vests and Why There Are So Many Street Protests in France (2018) - The New Yorker
Adam Gopnik reflects on the *gilets jaunes* protests in Paris, which have occurred in response to a rise in fuel taxes, engineered by the governmen...
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Part 2: The French Rebellion - The New York Times - 2019
Next in our series “The Battle for Europe,” we meet a group of Yellow Vest protesters in France. They say their living standards have been in decli...
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Saclay sacré - How France created a university to rival MIT
After years of pooh-poohing global college rankings The University of Paris-Saclay, officially launched this year, merges some 20 higher-educati...
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