Tag: archives
When Mauriac discovers Sollers – L’Express
[Philippe Sollers, grande figure de la littérature française, est décédé à l’âge de 86 ans ce samedi 6 mai 2023. Vingt ans plus tôt, en 2003, L’Express ressortait de ses archives, pour…
Nadia Comaneci, young prodigy under surveillance: the chilling archives of the Securitate
Night of November 27, 1989: Nadia Comaneci crosses the Hungarian border to flee the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. For the driver Romanian, it’s a disaster. His regime (which would fall…
“From revolt to tenderness”, the living archives of the Haitian poet René Depestre
In ten panels and through many very rare, even unpublished archives, the Francophone Multimedia Library (BFM) of Limoges recounts the life, the literary and political commitment and the work of…
From our archives: Spooky Hollow’s lurid past
News Local News Publication date: Oct 30, 2022 • 25 minutes ago • 2 minute read • Join the conversation Spooky Hollow in Norfolk County. File Photo Halloween is the…
How AFP intends to safeguard and enhance its photo archives
A book, an exhibition, an auction: Agence France-Presse has begun a judicious work of showcasing its photographic heritage. To talk about it, The media workshop receives Marielle Eudes, director of…
Norfolk County Archives to host Genealogy Symposium
The Genealogy Symposium, organized by Norfolk County Archives, is back. After the inaugural event in 2019, the symposium was canceled the past two years because of the pandemic. The second…
Colonization in Cameroon: Macron “announces the opening of all the archives but restricts their consultation”
On tour in Cameroon, Emmanuel Macron asked historians to “ turn on the light on France’s action during colonization and after the country’s independence. He also announced the opening “in…
The Vatican puts new archives of the Pius XII pontificate online
The Secretariat of State has announced the online publication of thousands of documents relating to Jews and their request for protection under the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. Funds which…
request for access to the archives on the “cave war” during the Algerian war
In France, historians call on the authorities to open military archives on the use of chemical weapons by the French army during the Algerian war (which took place between 1954…
Reopening of the new Albert Kahn museum, “the archives of the planet”
After six years of work, the public will be able to rediscover the Albert Kahn museum and gardens, in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. A new glass and wood building signed by…