Agnes C. Poirier
Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
- “It is precisely because I am of the Left that I am no longer of the Left.” French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut
- Wonderful news.
- One moment of lightness.
- This is it. America has lost Britain. By insulting the British Army and those who fought and died alongside the US in Afghanistan, Trump’s America has destroyed the “special relationship.” If that doesn’t sound like much to you, it should. #NATO #Trump
- And wham!
- "Standing up to Trump offers no guarantee of success. Submission, on the other hand, is certain to fail." Edward Luce in the FT today. www.ft.com/content/dede...
- UK follows France in declining Trump’s Board of Peace.
- President Macron denounces US ‘colonialism’ Macron said Europe could not “passively accept the law of the strongest, leading to vassalisation and bloc politics. Accepting the new colonial approach doesn’t make sense.” (He is wearing sunglasses because of an eye infection)
- « I am far more frightened by our own cowardice than by their threats » by Xavier Gorce
- My Notebook in The Times today.
- Oh Iran!
- Paris s/now
- "Ban Bardot!" An essay I wrote about revolutionary Brigitte Bardot: www.theguardian.com/film/2009/se...
- Invited to the Élysée Palace by General de Gaulle in 1967, Brigitte Bardot arrived dressed as a hussar and, as ever, caused a scandal.
- RIP Brigitte Bardot
- Hey ! (Pic Isabel Infantes Reuters)
- Wonderful #ArtDéco exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris!
- What joy to walk past Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal walking in the streets of Paris’s Latin Quarter, free at last.
- I didn’t see it coming. « Diary of a prisoner »… Nicolas #Sarkozy’s three weeks in prison soon in a bookshop near you…
- Interlude. La couleur du café.
- Understanding Jacques-Louis #David at last thanks to beautiful and enlightening exhibition at @museelouvre.bsky.social
- The BBC must reform or face irrelevance. In L'Express this week (in French) 👇 lexpress.envoy.gift/QLsnML
- Forgot to post this here yesterday. All the bells in Paris ringing in unison in memory of the victims of the #Paris attacks ten years ago.
- In memoriam. #ParisAttacks #13Novembre2015
- France is commemorating today the 10th anniversary of the Paris attacks of November 2015. Here is how it enfolded hour by hour👇 (via @LeParisien_75 )
- On a year of secret negotiations to free the great novelist Boualem Sansal : in @LEXPRESS tomorrow.
- leparisien.fr/politique/la... The great French-Algerian novelist #BoualemSansal finally freed, via @le_Parisien
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- In which I write about the beauty of Saint Malo in Autumn👇 www.ft.com/content/9235...
- Password for Louvre’s video surveillance system was ‘Louvre.’ www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
- Trivia. Nicolas #Sarkozy eats only #yogurts in prison, according to @LePoint. Is this a special Petit Filou diet?
- Call me contrarian but this (very critical) review of the Goncourt winning « La Maison Vide » is very funny. And rings true. www.lexpress.fr/culture/livr...
- Bloody hell! The #MoulinRouge owner wants to destroy both the homes (now small museums) of poets #JacquesPrévert and #BorisVian which are open to the public and have been preserved by their respective families since their death. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
- It is official, two of the four Louvre thieves have been arrested. The details here 👇 Cambriolage au Louvre : ce que l’on sait après l’interpellation de deux suspects lepoint.fr/tiny/1-2601781 #Société via @LePoint
- The new spot for a selfie in Paris is .... Yes, there, at the Louvre, just at the corner where four schmucks used a ladder and then stole our Crown's jewels. www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/cam...
- "The guards did not try to intervene to stop them" (They followed instructions to lead visitors to safety). 🤨 www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
- Only 51% of French people want new elections today (they were 66% a fortnight ago). Sébastien Lecornu is doing well, or not that badly. #France
- We French love our history teachers – Samuel Paty made us remember why In Memoriam #SamuelPaty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Very interesting article 👇 "Three plans were on the table: one put forward by Egypt; another by Blair and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law; and a third by France and Saudi Arabia. Aspects of all three plans eventually fed into Trump’s peace plan." www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
- This man will sleep in prison from next Tuesday (21 October)
