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The ministers of the French government are housed in the great hôtels of Paris, the 18th century residences built by the nobility to escape from the king’s oppressive presence in Versailles. They are lavish homes, with separate wings that lend themselves to a division of …
Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, from Shutterstock.com There have been world-wide protests about the death of George Floyd, but in France these protests also have a local connection. In 1986 Malik Oussekine, a 22-year-old student, was beaten to death by police. Thirty years later, in 2016, Adama Traoré, …
