First, let’s look back to History where the French indeed colonized the Southern half of India under the rule of Governor J. François Dupleix (1697-1763), a brillant administrator and businessman, who had married an Indo-Portuguese wife, and had gathered around him brilliant officers and received the support of hundreds of Indian Rajahs, princes and local […]
« A stranger to any denominational formalism as well as to any allegedly racial solidarity, I have felt during my entire life, above all and very simply French. Attached to my homeland by an already long family tradition, nourished by its spiritual heritage and its history, unable in truth to be able to conceive of […]
As you might know, France has been divided in 100 large counties in the late 18th century, called ‘Départements’ in French. They run from Ain (01) to Val d’Oise (95) and the famous overseas ‘Départements’ called Reunion island, Mayotte (both in the Indian Ocean), French Guyana (next to Brasil), Guadeloupe, Martinique and St-Pierre-et-Miquelon (next to French […]
All the visitors will tell you : TGV trains are fabulous and bring you to Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles from Paris within 3 hours. Indeed, the French trains speeding up to 360 kmph get you seated with double-decker trains all the way with joy and positive thoughts all the way in. French Southeast and Southwest have […]
From June 1st to June 5th, 1944, Radio-London, with the special authorization given by Churchill to De Gaulle’s Radio Team, using the BBC antennas, did repeat several times the first 3 verses of Paul Verlaine’s poetry named ‘Fall Song’ or ‘Chanson d’Automne’, starting with « Les sanglots longs des violons de l’automne ». They were coded messages […]
BREXIT IS NOT A GAME ! British politicians are egoistically playing the future of millions of UK citizens without noticing .. but their responsibilities & consequences will be HUGE if the UK goes for a ‘No-DEAL’ decision ! Official Brexit official date (known since 2017) is Friday 29th March, 2019 in 52 days precisely (This […]
