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Voltaire in Vichy

by Jean Guéhenno,Translated by David Ball,

By Jean Guéhenno, from Diary of the Dark Years, 1940–1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris, out this month from Oxford University Press. Guéhenno (1890–1978) was a writer,…

Army of Shadows

by Marcelle Hamel-Hateau,

From a memoir written in 1944 by Marcelle Hamel-Hateau, a schoolteacher in the Norman village of Neuville-au-Plain, included in D-Day Through French Eyes, by Mary Louise Roberts, published last month…

How Germany Reconquered Europe

by James K. Galbraith, Ulrike Guérot, John Gray, Christiane Lemke, Jeff Madrick, Emmanuel Todd,

The euro and its discontents

This Will Be the Last

by Monique Mabelly,Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

By Monique Mabelly, from an account of the September 9, 1977, execution by guillotine, at Marseille’s Baumettes prison, of Tunisian prisoner Hamida Djandoubi, published in Le Monde last October. Mabelly,…

Dissolve Congress

by Jean-Philippe Immarigeon,

A cure for constitutional crisis

Snark de Triomphe

by Raphaël Meltz,Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

From insults reportedly made to French presidents, collected in De voyou à pov’ con, by Raphaël Meltz, published in 2012 by Robert Laffont. (See page 38 for an Annotation on…

Après Mots, Le Déluge

by Kabir Chibber,

Fighting for the right to insult the French president

Kerry, Iran, and the Wisdom of James Baker

by Andrew Cockburn,

Why John Kerry was bested by France and Israel in negotiations with Iran, and how the Obama Administration could get around the U.S. sanctions regime

The Great War

by Joe Sacco,

Content and Its Discontents

by Laurent Beccaria, Patrick Saint-Exupéry,Translated by John Cullen,

By Laurent Beccaria and Patrick de Saint-Exupéry, from an essay included as an insert in the Winter 2013 issue of the French quarterly XXI. Beccaria is the publisher of the…

Is Paris Bathing?

From 112 Gripes About the French, a 1945 handbook for American soldiers in occupied France, edited and republished this month by the Bodleian Library.