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11/04/2013 - France

France's chief rabbi resigns admitting plagiarism

France's Chief Rabbi, the country's leading Jewish religious figure, on Thursday resigned with immediate effect, after admitting to plagiarism in his books.

11/04/2013 - France

France celebrates 70th birthday of Little Prince

"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is 70 years old this year and France is marking the occasion with a host of special editions, including a new biography of the ...

07/11/2012 - France

Tale of philosophy, violence and a Corsican bar wins France's Goncourt prize

France’s top literary prize, the Goncourt, has gone to philosophy teacher Jérôme Ferrari for The Sermon on the Fall of Rome - a novel that takes place in a bar on the ...

29/07/2012

French weekly magazines review

Who hopes to profit from the chaos and bloodletting in Syria? Is François Hollande a hypnotist? Can a third-century BC philosopher teach us to be happy? And why are so many ...

15/06/2012 - France - obituary

From French resistance to Holocaust denial - Roger Garaudy dies at 98

Roger Garaudy, the philosopher and Communist resistant who became a holocaust denier and Muslim convert, has died near Paris at the age of 98.

28/06/2011

French press review 28 June 2011

Cheating in exams and future backbiting among Socialist candidates for the presidential elections are the big topics in today's French dailies....

27/06/2011

French press review 27 June 2011

Local politics dominate this morning's front pages.

20/06/2011 - France

The annual Baccalauréat kicks off

French students sat down to the first paper of the "baccalauréat" on Thursday, in what is a peculiarly French summer ritual.

19/11/2010 - France

Philosophy to be offered earlier at French schools, says minister

French 15-year-olds will soon be discussing Descartes and Socrates in a new pilot scheme in 250 schools, announced ...

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