Tag: The march of the world
In memory of the victims of terrorism
Following the attacks of January and November 2015 in Paris, then July 14 in Nice, the Presidency of the French Republic announced in 2018 the creation of the Memorial Museum…
René Dumont, pioneer of political ecology
Agronomist, René Dumont discovers the famine in Indochina. Shocked by colonial violence, he turned his back on the French Empire to devote himself to the fight against hunger. Inventor of…
The African Marseille of Claude McKay
Intrigue in the world of publishing, we found the microfilm of a novel by Claude McKay, writer of the Harlem Renaissance movement and author of Banjo. The text will eventually…
1936-1938: social gains against a backdrop of war, illustrated by Willy Ronis
May 1936: more than 2 million workers, employees and even executives go on strike and occupy their workplaces throughout France. The Popular Front, which brings together the three main left-wing…
“We are leaving tomorrow”, letters from deportees from the Drancy camp
On the occasion of the day of remembrance of the victims of the deportation, this April 24, 2022, 80 years after the Vel d’Hiv roundup and the turning point that…
The war of the waves – The march of the world
On BBC London, the airwave war is declared! Winston Churchill assures his unfailing support for Free France against the Germans and against the French State of Marshal Pétain. A speech…