Peter Allen
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In Montreuil with the incredible Mamoudou Gassama, the Paris “Spiderman” who saved the life of a four-year-old boy. 🇲🇱 🇫🇷 ✌️
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Water cannon, tear gas and baton charges already being used against pro-Palestine protesters in Paris.
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The Jeu de Paume - one of best art galleries in Paris - is on fire. A mob is storming through the Tuleries Garden.
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How do the French still allow this around the Stade de France after all that’s happened? Put on more trains. Don’t stop them at midnight. Regulate entry into stations.
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Sad to hear about death of Peter Sissons. Once interviewed him about this 1951 photo: Peter is on left, with hand on John Lennon’s shoulder. Classmate from Dovedale School, Liverpool, with fists up is Jimmy Tarbuck. Future Cambridge don, Everton footballer, etc in pic too.
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A private jet full of London holidaymakers landed in Marseille last Saturday. Three helicopters waiting to take them to rented villa in Cannes. Men in 50s, women 20s. Trip organiser a Croatian financier. All sent back to UK for breaking Coronavirus resrictions, police tell @BFMTV.
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Pres. Emmanuel Macron's comments on Brexit crisis really are sans ambiguïté. "It’s a referendum that was manipulated" by "fake news", he says. The British people "were lied to" and "good luck to representatives of the country who want to implement something that doesn't exist.".
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Witnessed some horrendous violence at the Stade de France tonight, including this mob of Israel fans - some masked - attacking a France supporter, who's on the ground. Spoke to three off-duty soldiers who were over from Tel Aviv, while one openly wore an IDF T-shirt.
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Not sure whether Prince Harry has managed to read his ghost-written book yet, but French media suggests it's an attempted coup de grâce against Charles III. As W.Shakespeare put it: "Those that are betray'd do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe".
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The Queen has today received a Jubilee gift from Paris - a Republican Guard gelding called Fabuleau de Macour. He’s expected to join the Household Cavalry, which will be a bit of a culture shock. 🇫🇷🇬🇧
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First time an English Royal title has been used to lobby politicians in a republic that won its independence from the Crown by violent revolution in 1776? The U.S. franchise of British Royalty is clearly out of control…Time for diplomats from both countries to intervene?
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@rosskempsell @tombrookspolloc So want those blinds to flick open, and a little face to appear. .
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Note how French police administering this punishment beating during Gilets Jaunes protests in Bordeaux on Saturday have covered their faces in a manner that might be considered illegal, especially if you're a Muslim woman. Children suffering from teargas inhalation shocking too.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has tonight launched yet another scathing attack on Brexit, saying ‘it can’t be delivered’ & it has ‘torn [British] society apart’. He was speaking to French voters in Bourg-de-Péage, south of Lyon, in live TV debate.
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Marine Le Pen today denied France was responsible for 1942 Vel d’Hiv round-up of 13,152 Jews in Paris. Shameful Holocaust revisionism.
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France will today unite in honour of Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame (holding Tricolour), the gendarme who gave up his life to save a terrorist hostage last Friday. Second from right in photo is brother officer Lt. Col. Stéphane Chaon, who died on active service in February. RIP
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Macron has bypassed parliament by using a presidential decree to force a rise in France’s retirement age from 62 to 64. Legal thanks to article 49.3 of 5th Republic Constitution, but barely democratic. Fury is palpable across the country. Expect chaos.
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Devastating headlines for Project Sussex in latest @ParisMatch - « Why Meghan Lied » and « The Masks Slip » Oof ! The French media has been quite respectful towards them in the past.
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Series 5 of Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent) & stand-alone movie confirmed for later this year / early 2022, Thomas Anargyros, président of Mediawan Studios, has just announced in a @Europe1 exclusive. Great opportunity to reincarnate Jean Gabin and Godefroy de Montmirail.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Beirut - the first world leader to do so since Tuesday's explosion. Monsieur Macron's predecessor, Charles de Gaulle, granted Lebanon independence in 1944. It remains a key member of the Francophonie.
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Britain has a Home Secretary who thinks that counter-terrorism is a criminal offence. Her cliché ridden soundbites are full of excruciating mistakes like this. This should be of extreme concern.
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has said seven times in this interview that she plans to deal with “counter terrorism offenders”.
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Wonderful picture of Lewis Hamilton being honoured by the Royal Family in his beloved home country.
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Chelsea fans who abused black man facing 3 years in prison & €45,000 fine for 'racist violence on public transport' - Paris Prosecutors.
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French media going big on the King's Equerry: Lt. Col. J.Thompson, of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
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France's Interior Minister Christophe Castaner is quite rightly one of highest-profile politicians in France right now. He's being grilled by MPs via video link in National Assembly today. What a contrast with UK's scandalously absent Home Secretary Priti Patel @YvetteCooperMP
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Beyond the doom and gloom, great to see le Parisien splashing on swimming in the Seine today. More than €1billion spent on making it happen.
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This Paris daily newspaper splashes on Charles III today, highlighting how the French Republic remains fascinated by the British Crown. Assesses the King's early reign, and suggests he's doing well. Main quoted expert is @valentinelow of the « Dieu et mon droit » Times.
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Aston Villa had been European Champions for about a month when Prince William was born in 1982. Starved of success since then, so he was enjoying today with Holte End royalty.
Prince William and John Carew enjoyed that!. Aston Villa are back in the Premier League.
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President of France accused of spreading “fake news” about French Muslims, including little girls. @FT @MehreenKhn .
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How Trump's hateful lies about Paris work #1: These images are of taxi drivers protesting against Uber.
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The outrageous cost of PCR tests in Britain, and the companies making huge profits from them, is rightly becoming a big issue as people look to start travelling again. In Paris, they are absolutely free to anyone, including foreign nationals - no queues, outstanding service.
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If still in EU, UK would now be receiving up to €50bn from Next Generation recovery fund set up to prevent Coronavirus-related economic catastrophe. Instead, we 'ave Priti Patel "basically speakin’, engagin’, discussin’, you know, to my French counterparts every day, you know.".
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Just imagine Cologne trying to do what they're currently doing to the Arsenal at Chelsea, West Ham, Millwall. Stadium would be a war zone.
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Dramatic electoral twist alert: votes are still being counted following early result projections and Mélenchon's share is creeping up on Le Pen's. Macron's lead also growing. #presidentielles2022
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Astonishing scenes on a Paris-London Eurostar: staff member was unhappy about an Englishman's mask etiquette so she alerted police, ordered an emergency stop at Lille, and watched him being led away by officers. All very heavy-handed, not to say sinister.
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Brexit rapidly turning into that scene in Airplane where calm voice comes on tannoy & says: "No need to panic. But can anyone fly a plane?".
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25 years since these French soldiers spotted an English aristocrat they knew as « Lady D » at Sarajevo airport, and she agreed to a happy snap. A few days later, comrades in full dress uniform were escorting Diana's Royal Standard-draped coffin through Paris. Pic: Stefan Rousseau
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No need to speak French to see how Le Pen's pompous national identity speech on Monday was ripped off from Fillon. What a phoney.
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Love the way you can turn a corner in 21st Century Paris and suddenly find yourself back in the Middle Ages.
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"Meghan and Harry accused of lying, they are the laughing stock of the whole world". Little sympathy for Prince Harry and his woeful PR stunts in Paris, where his mother was a genuine victim of speeding by a drunk driver. This headline - one of many similar - via @GALAfr
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Priest murdered by suspected Isil knifemen while celebrating mass in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray named as Jacques Hamel, 86. Ordained 1958. RIP.
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The arrest in Paris of model agent Jean-Luc Brunel, 74, on suspicion of raping and trafficking children for the late Jeffrey Epstein will be of huge concern to Prince Andrew. It is alleged that the Duke of York shared a teenage 'sex slave' with Brunel. Both men deny the claim.
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French surrealism in action: indicted criminal suspect with mountain of publicly available evidence against him tells kids he's "courageous"
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Ever wondered why Paris pavements are called trottoirs? Now you know.
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The queue outside Shakespeare & Co in Paris today. Still essentially a small, quirky Left Bank book shop after all these years, but incredibly well run and successful. Original founded 1919 and moved to this site in 1951.
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Anyone planning a trip to the Paris Bastille Opera tonight might want to bring a gas mask.
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IMF board has "full confidence" in Christine Lagarde - found guilty of negligence by a Paris court today - & she can keep job. Bankers, eh.
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79 years ago (July 16-17 1942) 13,152 Paris Jews - 4,115 of them children - were forced to identify themselves with yellow Stars of David. Then rounded up in the Vel d’Hiv, deported & murdered. Grotesque, then, to see this in the same city this weekend.
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The RSVP Bhangra band leads celebrations for King Charles III's official birthday at the British Embassy in Paris last night. The band's reviews include: "They rocked the masses to exhaustion". Bhangra Bhangra!!
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The Sun has a massive scoop tonight - one that will dominate the UK news agenda for days. One question for the BBC:
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Prince Philip (2nd from left) in Jules Verne's old garden in Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud. Was a pupil at The Elms (les Ormes), American school there, from 1927-30. Looks like they're recreating scene from Richmal Crompton's William the Outlaw, published 1927. Getty/Paris Match
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Potentially defamatory accusation that Britain's Royal Family "perpetuated falsehoods" is quite rightly translated as "spread lies" in the French Republic, where sa majesté the Queen is massively respected. No attempt to underplay grave allegations using attorney weasel words.
Un nouvel extrait de l'interview accordée par la duchesse de Sussex à Oprah Winfrey a été dévoilé mercredi soir par la chaîne américaine CBS.
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If you're caught demonstrating on behalf of Palestine in "je suis Charlie" Paris - one of the world's great protest cities - today you face a fine or worse. Free expression about anything, unless it involves Arab Muslim grievances.
Le recours contre l'arrêté pris par le préfet de Police a été rejeté par le tribunal administratif. La manifestation prévue demain est donc interdite. #Rappel : Participer à une manifestation interdite fait l'objet d'une verbalisation à hauteur de 135€.
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@EKdesune @Thibaut_Octave 1. There were no "planks" 2. The mob was in the Tuileries garden 3. My contemporaneous tweet, filed in the middle of a riot, described a fire at the Jeu de Paume art gallery. What I saw was what appeared in my video, and I'll be inspecting the damage tomorrow.
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Hazza & Megs moving to America to get away from the tabloids.
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RIP John Jenkins, 100, who watched Pompey win the FA Cup in 1939, and then helped liberate France five years later. President Macron thanked John in his home city in June, on 75th anniversary of D-Day.
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Man shot dead by military patrol at Paris Orly today had earlier been stopped in routine traffic check & shot policewoman in head.
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France’s National Rally has “anti-Semitic & racist foundations”, stigmatises on “origin & appearance” & is economically illiterate. A vote for the Le Pen family business is a betrayal of 235 years of French republicanism. Sans ambiguïté from @lemondefr .
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Absolutely astonishing that Conservatives have lost Westminster – historically a flagship Thatcherite local authority (it was her favourite) with the lowest council tax in Britain and instinctive Tory residents, including HM the Queen (who doesn't vote).
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Isabelle Dinoire, immensely brave Frenchwoman who underwent world's first ever face transplant in 2005, has died aged 49. RIP via @Le_Figaro.
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Horrific reports around Notre Dame in Paris that the three medieval Rose Windows - la Rosace ouest (1225) la Rosace nord (1250) la Rosace sud (1250) - have exploded in the intense heat of the blaze engulfing the cathedral.
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Another astonishing video of riot police & firefighters scrapping. Clockwork Orange-style gang violence on a council estate finally broken up by dozens of rounds of a lachrymatory agent that is banned in war zones. Could be a scene from a dystopian movie, but in fact Paris 2020.
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Today, March 3, is the 79th anniversary of the Bethnal Green Tube disaster of 1943 when 173 Londoners - mainly women and children - were crushed to death or asphyxiated as they tried to shelter from an air raid. Such ordeals should be a thing of the past, but they're not. 🇬🇧🇺🇦
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Anybody who wants to go out in France now will have to download a form online and fill it out each time (eg "Going to buy a baguette", "Walking dog") If you fail to provide this document, you risk a €38 (£34.60) fine - Interior Minister, Christophe Castaner. Quite astonishing.
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All physical exercise – running, walking – will be banned in Paris between 10am and 7pm from tomorrow (Wed April 8) as part of ever stricter Coronavirus lockdown, by order Paris Police Prefecture & city council. Aim is to keep crowds down. What about pre-10am & post-7pm crowds?.
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@gil2chill Agree - I usually wait - but my point is not about personal convenience. It is about a very dangerous build up of humanity in an enclosed space. This is especially worrying during a period of high security warnings (now) and when all trains end soon after midnight.
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Russian fans now heading towards England supporters in Marseille
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EDL chants & Sieg Heil salutes fm alleged Chelsea fans currently smashing up shops & cafés in central Paris http://t.co/Et8p3xVJAu.
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Lots of “We Will Meet Again” headlines today. Worth remembering that Vera Lynn is 10 years older than the Queen - born in year of Passchendaele, in East Ham, which was then bombed to pieces during Blitz. United Britain during darkest days. Still smiling through.
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I pass the Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent) building most days. Mathias’s office window is always open. I like to think Noémie and Hervé are up there, all dolled up, with Arlette’s dog in a bow tie, watching reruns of the Cannes Film Festival opening night.
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Those of us who have lost numerous friends and colleagues reporting for the British Press in war zones, not least of all in Afghanistan, will always be thankful to Camilla, Queen Consort, for her sincere and unwavering support. To portray her as a newspaper stooge is despicable.
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A clearly irritated Emmanuel Macron has reacted to Liz Truss's cheap 'friend or foe' shot at him. During a trip to Algiers, the President of France said: ‘The United Kingdom is a friendly nation, regardless of its leaders, and sometimes in spite of its leaders.’.
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Queen Camilla: “Do any of you speak English?”.French person: « Oui, un peu ».Queen Camilla: “Well come on then…”.🤣 🇫🇷🇬🇧.
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Born in the year of Passchendaele in an East End later bombed to pieces during the Blitz. Dies on the day President Macron arrives in London to honour Britain’s vital wartime role. Vera Lynn RIP.
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Truss & Johnson - recent UK Prime Ministers who didn't send fighters to Ukraine - are now insisting some of Britain's 137 Typhoons & 29 F-35 Lightnings (count them) should go to Ukraine. War is so easy after you've continued underfunding the RAF & then scooted off in disgrace.
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RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson reading Henry V in a field of Lincolnshire poppies. It was 80 years ago today - May 16 1943 - that the 24-year-old set off on Operation Chastise: a raid on Germany by No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) Avro Lancasters using the "Upkeep" bouncing bomb.
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Killer of police captain near Paris identified as 25-year-old Larossi Abballa: a convicted terrorist left free to murder on behalf of Isis.
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Friday evening in Paris and there’s a rainbow coming out of the Louvre.
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Marine Le Pen, who's finally won seat in depressed northern town after 24 years of trying, now making speech as if she's Clem Attlee in 1945.
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After four days of Coronavirus lockdown in central Paris you start to look for isolated spaces where you can safely exercise alone. Bizarre where you find them.
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What a triumph for the Spanish Crown - the Queen doing exactly what representatives of a constitutional monarchy are there for. The Bourbons costs Spain around a £7million year, at least a 10th of what the Windsors cost the UK. 🇪🇸
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The late British art historian Kenneth Clark said this view of Paris was the definition of Civilisation. Filmed at 19.30 tonight when church bells ringing across France. Bit faint. Note someone limbering up for Joe Wicks in the morning. @thebodycoach
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F. Scott Fitzgerald died in Hollywood on this day – December 21st - in 1940, aged 44. This Side of Paradise was published when he was 23, Gatsby when he was 28.
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Pleased to report that lots of British friends are in la belle France at the moment and having no problems at all getting their NHS Covid Passes accepted everywhere. 🇫🇷🇬🇧.
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Prenez un grip….Louis XIV (1638 – 1715), le Roi-Soleil, was on the throne of France for 72 years and 110 days.
The Queen has hosted a reception for local community groups at Sandringham House on the eve of Accession Day. Her Majesty is the first Monarch in history to reach the historic milestone of 70 years on the throne.
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Jean-Luc Brunel, the 76-year-old French fashion agent who was on remand for rape in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking ring was today found dead in his cell at La Santé prison in Paris, city prosecutors confirm.
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@barbmilne @albsar1970 No probs. I remember Peter being very moved by the photo. He didn't see it until he was well into his 50s, yet identified everybody instantly. He was massively proud of all their achievements, and his city.
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Eric Blair was at prep school in Sussex when this pic taken, but in 1928 he moved into 6, rue du Pot de Fer. He suffered poverty, theft & illness there & wrote about it in "Down & Out in Paris & London", under nom de plume, George Orwell. He renamed the street rue du Coq D’Or.
Wednesday 24th June 1914 - 4 weeks before the start of The Great War. I have restored this gorgeous autochrome of a Parisian family in the Rue du Pot de Fer, which was taken 106 years ago by Stéphane Passet. It is original colour (not colourised).
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The Rolling Thrones: guest list at tonight's State Banquet with King Charles at Versailles includes Mick Jagger & French football royalty Didier Drogba, Arsène Wenger, and Patrick Vieira. Mick is a France resident, with a château of his own in Indre-et-Loire. 🇫🇷🇬🇧
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@mrjamesob @Otto_English "Between February 13 and March 30, Britain missed a total of eight conference calls or meetings about the coronavirus between EU heads of state or health ministers - meetings that Britain was still entitled to join.".
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What keeps my heart awake is colourful silence - Claude Monet
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Frenchmen fencing on the east tip of the Île Saint-Louis in Paris this afternoon. The French School (École française d’Escrime) remains the European standard in Britain, Germany etc, although dressing up as d’Artagnan is no longer compulsory.
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