HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 27 articles in category 'France'. Au Moulin de la Galette, Madeleine Enigma in the Sapphic mood Posted on UTC 2026-01-01 04:21 Words: 2,667; reading time: 12 minutes Heloise – The family years Life in Nuits, Dijon and Vienna Posted on UTC 2025-02-02 08:00 Words: 1,624; reading time: 7 minutes Anton Teyber and his daughter Eleanor The future Mrs Asachi Posted on UTC 2025-02-01 08:00 Words: 1,027; reading time: 4 minutes Ermiona Asachi The Asachis' brilliant daughter Posted on UTC 2025-02-01 08:00 Words: 2,621; reading time: 11 minutes Heloise and Ermiona A timeline Posted on UTC 2025-02-01 08:00 Words: 716; reading time: 3 minutes Notre Dame: What now? Knock it down and build something better. Posted on UTC 2019-04-16 13:53 Words: 1,124; reading time: 5 minutes Speaking in tongues through a glass darkly Bernard-Henri Lévy – madness mangled. Posted on UTC 2019-01-27 16:36 Words: 1,613; reading time: 7 minutes Jean-Jacques Rousseau's herbarium 1772 2 July 1778: 240th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's death. Posted on UTC 2018-07-13 10:53 Words: 487; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for April King Louis | Pallywood | The art of wellbeing tour | Sun Queen nuts | Germany: Toddlers mixing paint | Patience Posted on UTC 2018-04-01 02:01 Words: 675; reading time: 3 minutes On the French road to nowhere And currently getting nowhere fast, too. Posted on UTC 2018-04-05 14:16 Words: 973; reading time: 4 minutes 21 March 1918: Operation Michael The beginning of the end of the First World War, one hundred years ago. Posted on UTC 2018-03-20 07:22 Words: 1,714; reading time: 7 minutes The French, dontcha luv 'em! No. And neither did Goethe. Posted on UTC 2017-05-19 12:53 Words: 733; reading time: 3 minutes Trembling above the abyss Goethe conquering one of his demons in Strasbourg Cathedral. Posted on UTC 2017-01-22 13:50 Words: 1,166; reading time: 5 minutes We'll do it our way Blaming the Amis the European way. Posted on UTC 2017-01-19 10:26 Words: 1,004; reading time: 4 minutes On the road to nowhere At the moment short, but tremendously expensive. That's OK, the French are paying. Posted on UTC 2016-12-28 09:12 Words: 1,630; reading time: 7 minutes The grape harvest French white wine: alcohol, child labour, girls for hire and a certain unmistakeable 'finish'. Posted on UTC 2016-10-04 07:56 Words: 1,171; reading time: 5 minutes Citroën DS23 Gone but not forgotten: the rustbucket goddess remembered. Posted on UTC 2016-08-26 16:27 Words: 717; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for July Turkey: the choice | You ask, we answer | Two charts | Respected journalist | Hip dysplasia | Goddess | In video we trust | The chosen ones choose | Boots Posted on UTC 2016-07-01 02:01 Words: 1,031; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for May Equation | Not a good end | The Donald | How to feel inadequate | Unbalanced revulsion | Le Temps des cerises Posted on UTC 2016-05-01 02:01 Words: 1,027; reading time: 4 minutes European wars Your cut-out-and-keep guide, specially designed for the use of British Prime Ministers. Posted on UTC 2016-05-10 14:54 Words: 338; reading time: 1 minute What's the French for 'dodo'? Whatever it is, it's dead. Posted on UTC 2016-03-23 07:41 Words: 577; reading time: 2 minutes Montségur, 16 March 1244 The ashes of the 'Friends of God'. Posted on UTC 2016-03-04 07:10 Words: 666; reading time: 3 minutes The Cathars, the 'Friends of God' Recovering the traces of an obliterated monastic order. Posted on UTC 2016-03-04 07:11 Words: 1,213; reading time: 5 minutes The Albigensian crusade The terrible crusade against its own people and the royal conquest of the Languedoc. Posted on UTC 2016-03-04 07:12 Words: 1,159; reading time: 5 minutes The community under siege The siege of the hilltop fort of Montségur. Eight months of resistance until the attackers found the fatal flaw in the defenses. Posted on UTC 2016-03-04 07:13 Words: 1,867; reading time: 8 minutes The crowned knot of fire The fiery end of the 'Friends of God' on Montségur and the obliteration of the movement. Posted on UTC 2016-03-04 07:14 Words: 1,551; reading time: 7 minutes Montségur: video materials Selected video materials about Montségur. Posted on UTC 2016-03-04 07:15 Words: 146; reading time: 1 minute