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France's 2024 Paris Olympics will include Esports
Not the games we would want to see but it's a start
#OTD 14 November 1878 Julie Manet was born. She was a regular model for her uncle Édouard Manet & Pierre Auguste-Renoir. She became a painter & a diarist during a tumultuous time in France's history.
Soviet cartoon (1952) showing an American soldier downing all of France's milk while Marianne and her children are left empty-handed, with a Coca Cola advert behind. Leonid Soifertis, Krokodil magazine.
TIL: Did you know that France's Alain Delon acted in a movie called Tehran 43? This film was a joint production of France and Russia, and it was about the conspiracy of Nazis to assassinate the leaders of the Allies at the #Tehran Conference.
Stars from France's top flight are joined by new transfers 🤩
New Kickoff Rivalries Chapter opens tomorrow 🙌
#otd 7 September 1778 – American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
#britishhistory #d7sep #onthisdayinhistory
#OTD 7 September 1778 France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the American Revolutionary War
Édith Piaf was a French singer. Noted as France's national chanteuse, she was one of the country's most widely known international stars. Piaf's music was often autobiographical, and she specialized in chanson réaliste and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow.
over the bodies of the fallen, holding flag of the French Revolution – tricolor flagstill France's flag today – in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket w/other. figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and French Republic known as Marianne #fetenationale
#OTD 12 July 1790 The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly, subordinationg France's Catholic Church to the state.
So I've talked (at length) about Britain during the Revolutionary war, I've mentioned France's roll, the Dutch in passing with the St Eustace raid & commencement of the Anglo Dutch War, Germans at Trenton and even some famous Polish participents - who else is there? Ah yes! Spain
Jacques Majorelle's Les amies endormies, circa 1933-1934. Majorelle was one of France's leading Neo-Orientalist painters, focusing on Morocco. His painting of friends sleeping will come to auction in Artcurial's sale on May 28.
Explore the sale via: https://t.co/b21pLhQyop
8/10 "The Anon Collector" AVAILABLE
Blockchain mythology: "You're carving a shadow, anon. You're shaping a story with the finds of your diamond nose. " Fascinated by anons from whom you can only know the taste.
Exhibited at France's 1st IRL NFT auction.
https://t.co/grCOdUcymf
@Nora_Synth Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
A Treasure Planet style adaption (with a terrific dub) about a young low iq aristocrat witnessing a mysterious wealthy man infiltrate Space France's social circle. Then shit gets real. Some aspects haven't aged too well tho but man