france Is France's capital city lying to its citizens about a new audio surveillance project? Séamus Bellamy
france Having burnished their reputations with extravagant promises, the billionaires who pledged €600m. to rebuild Notre Dame are missing in action Cory Doctorow
law French politicians want to add an ag-gag rule to the country's sweeping online hate speech proposal Cory Doctorow
piketty After Notre Dame bailout Yellow Vests urge more Victor Hugo tributes, starting with "Les Miserables" Cory Doctorow
Copyfight As the EU Copyright Directive was approved, Germany admitted it requires copyright filters, putting it on a collision course with the EU-Canada trade deal Cory Doctorow
human rights Leaked, "highly classified" French report shows that the slaughter in Yemen depends on US support Cory Doctorow
Copyfight After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn't require filters, top EU Commissioner says "Article 13 requires filters" Cory Doctorow
Weird Mystery solved: why has a beach in France been blighted by washed-up parts for toy Garfield phones for more than 30 years? Cory Doctorow
happy mutants An astounding gigapixel panorama of Paris affords "an eyeful of the Eiffel" Jeffrey Martin
News French TV cuts Facebook Live video from desecrated Jewish cemetery due to anti-Semitic troll swarm Xeni Jardin
Copyfight As the German Government Abandons Small Businesses, the Worst Parts of the EU Copyright Directive Come Roaring Back, Made Even Worse Cory Doctorow
Copyfight As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world's libraries call for its rejection Cory Doctorow
scholarship Archaeological evidence for the Iron Age practice of embalming your enemies' severed heads with resin and displaying them Cory Doctorow
