England, tutted fifteenth-century Frenchmen, is where they kill their kings. Though the comment’s smug self-satisfaction ...

Why is it, when Islamism has damaged the image of Islam so comprehensively, that the faith seems to retain a huge popularity?

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The whorehouse of thought” is how Claude Vignon, a journalist in Balzac’s Lost Illusions (1837–43), describes newspapers.

Take the TGV from Paris to Montélimar, a local bus or two, and you could find yourself in an earthly paradise, albeit one where mortality is an abiding presence, along with a sense of the incapacity ...