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The article doesn’t say that they don’t care about wars and climate.

It’s not “instead of”, it’s “in addition to”. And it’s not “at least” 5 years of prison either, it could end up being less than what the prosecution asked for.

How is your comment related to the article? This trial isn’t about the National Rally’s ideas (which are indeed illiberal, fundamentally racist and plainly disgusting). It’s about them embezzling millions of euros from the European Parliament, during more than a decade, by having many of their members be “fake” MEP assistants who got paid for a job that they didn’t actually do. WTF does this have to do with religion or illiberalism.

Although not being French I do not know the extent of laicité.

Indeed you do not. Laïcité, among other things, guarantees the right to believe in (or not believe in) and practice (or not practice) a religion. What you’re proposing is religious discrimination, not laïcité.

France actually was in the same timezone as the UK before WWII and the German occupation. My grandma remembers switching to “German time”. Franco’s Spain similarly changed timezones in 1942 to match their German allies. So, yes, the change was made politically. :-) I’m guessing France is also responsible for Algeria and Morocco being in UTC+1, not sure if they’ve ever discussed changing zones.

Edit: I just checked and I was wrong about the Moroccan time zone. Algeria is in UTC+1 though (all year long, they don’t use DST), not sure why it’s in yellow on your map.

In France, normal time is UTC+1 (CET), and summer time is UTC+2 (CEST), when we actually belong in UTC+0 (and were, before being occupied by Germany). Permanently switching to the so-called “summer time” makes no sense if you’ve ever seen a map of time zones.

And by the way Spain is in the same situation. Spain, which is more western than Greenwich, is going to change time with us this night and we’re both going to spend six months in Egypt and Finland’s normal time zone. That is so wrong.

As a non-native speaker, I’d say that your summary of the upsides and downsides matches my experience.

maybe there should be a new EU-standard fonetik version.

Or maybe it’s finally time for Shavian alphabet to shine!

Some examples of this phenomenon in French are “un ombril” -> “un nombril” (a navel, from the latin umbilicus) and “l’ierre” -> “le lierre” (the ivy, from the latin hedera).

I’m under the impression that mistakes like it’s/its tend to be more common among native speakers than among people who learn the language as teenagers/grown-ups. I might be wrong, though, it’s not like I have any data on the subject.

Paris its an immigration nightmare with a lot of social and criminal problems

No, it is not.

“Bless you”, I guess? I just wasn’t expecting a German loan word in that circumstance. And people even seem to pronounce it correctly!

I didn’t know that you could say Gesundheit in English.

They seem to be having a global BD related exhibition : https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/zozduYP?gad_source=1&cHash=2063aa53c2b89eb65797a4a813a1ba31 If I understand correctly, there are comic-related installations in several parts of the building, the main exhibition being this one : https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/9htHbj4

I’ve only seen the Corto Maltese exhibition, which is actually inside the “BPI” a large public library (situated in the same building, and part of the same institution (the “Pompidou Center”), as the Museum for Modern Art), where many people (like me) go to study ; it contains a small exhibition space (where admission is free, unlike the museum). They’ve hosted a Posy Simmonds exhibition last winter.

I haven’t read a Corto Maltese book since I was much too young to get it, and the exhibition’s really made me want to give these comics a new try.

Ha, I was in the Jardin des Plantes just one hour ago!

The second image is Opéra Garnier’s grand staircase: https://cdn2.civitatis.com/francia/paris/galeria/panoramica-gran-escalera-opera-garnier.jpg

And I’m pretty sure the guy with the black cape, under the stairs, is the Phantom of the Opera.