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Serious question from a hopeful man: Does anyone know where one can purchase DVDs or Blu-rays of Éric Rohmer's complete "Comedies and Proverbs" for the US market? Kino Lorber has a couple of them, but I can't find all six. Thanks in advance for the help.

This week, I had the opportunity to stay 2 nights at the Pic du Midi , in the french Pyrénées. I captured some from this site, which is still magical.

I was astonished by the dynamism of this observatory: new domes, new , new projects and new buildings. in in the metropolitan is performing like a charm.

I fully support its application to the @unesco !

Sunset from Pic du Midi, in France. This video is accelerated x20 times.
Moon rise from Pic du Midi, in France. This sequence is made of raw frames of 30s each, at 14mm f/2.8 and 6400 ISO, over 4 hours. This video is taken during the night, near Moon rise, which is illuminating the night sky.
Stargazing at Pic du Midi. Time lapse captured from ⁨Pic du Midi in France. This sequence is made of raw frames of 30s each, at 14mm f/2.8 and 6400 ISO, over 3 hours. This video is taken during the night, when the public is discovering the night sky as part of a stargazing event. The zodiacal light is visible at the beginning together with the planet Jupiter and the constellation Orion.
Time lapse captured from the Pic du Midi observatory, in France. This sequence is made of raw frames of 30s each, at 14mm f/2.8 and 6400 ISO, over 5 hours. The planet Jupiter is visible all over the video, together with the Orion constellation that is rising behind the Pyrenees Mountains. The zodiacal light is crossing the landscape at the beginning while the Moon is rising towards the end.

« recompose patiemment le parcours, à la fois commun et exceptionnel, d’un esclave africain déporté en au XVIIIe siècle. Et dans ses efforts pour ne pas trahir l’homme qu’il fut, elle décortique méticuleusement cette société d#’ancienRégime dans laquelle il évoluait et dont il allait vivre le basculement avec la . »


1748-1796. Parcours d’un affranchi

https://afriquexxi.info/De-Ouidah-a-Bordeaux-le-parcours-extraordinaire-d-un-esclave-sous-l-ancien

@bookstodon

De Ouidah à Bordeaux, le parcours extraordinaire d’un esclave sous l’ancien régime NICOLAS MICHEL image d'arrière-plan (photo) : La Porte du non retour, à Ouidah, au Bénin d’où est originaire Casimir Fidèle. © Shubert Ciencia / Flickr

Tiens Mastodon, on reparle d'un projet ancien de passer 6 ou 12 mois dans 6 ou 12 villes différentes de , histoire de vraiment connaître le pays. (vraiment... on s'entend)

Sachant que Paris, Lyon, Dijon, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Marseille et Grenoble ne sont pas dans les candidates potentielles, quels seraient les arguments pour venir passer 1 mois dans votre ville ?

(partages bienvenus! Soyez volontiers chauvin-es, mais avec des arguments solides svp)

Are you in France with a cat that used to live in Aotearoa NZ and the cat is missing?

A cat found in Antony France with a NZ chip. Someone posted in reddit hoping to reunite the cat with the cat''s owners/slaves.

Post with pic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1rm8cnc/nz_pussy_found_in_france/

Apparently also posted in NZers in France fb page.

-Zélande

Photo of cat, possibly a lilac Burmese found in Anthony France. There are two photos in one pic of the same cat, Cat is sitting up in a bag or perhaps fabric pet carrier. The head and a bit of the top is showing above the bag opening. Greyish head fur with white fur on body. Pet carrier in either black or very dark grey. Sorry for bad description. Photo sourced from this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1rm8cnc/nz_pussy_found_in_france/

Voici le cadeau offert par la ville de Paris à Eléonore d'Autriche, seconde épouse de François Ier, pour son entrée en 1531 : deux chandeliers d'argent, ouvragés à l'antique et servant de drageoirs, ainsi que l'indique le livret imprimé par (excusez du peu !) Geoffroy Tory.

Le livret est conservé en de nombreux exemplaires ; l'image ci-dessous est extraite de celui conservé à l'Arsenal, RESERVE 8-H-12585

Page d'un imprimé ancien : à droite, un encadré présente, sur toute la hauteur de la page, la gravure d'un des deux chandeliers offerts à la reine. Celui-ci est très travaillé, avec un large pied rond, différentes figures (un aigle en haut, des êtres hybrides) qui tiennent des cornes d'abondance et divers objets. En haut, un cartouche très raffiné est représenté accroché par des rubans. Une inscription y est placée : "Desi[n]g du present faict a la royne en deux chandeliers". A gauche, trois inscriptions qui correspondent à des lettres présentes sur la gravure : ce sont des citations en latin

France is calling for the resignation of the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories over comments she made allegedly targeting Israel at a conference, the foreign minister says.

“France unreservedly condemns the outrageous and reprehensible remarks made by Ms. Francesca Albanese, which are directed not at the Israeli government, whose policies may be criticized, but at Israel as a people and as a nation, which is absolutely unacceptable,” Jean-Noel Barrot tells French lawmakers.

“She is a political activist who stirs up hate speech that does a disservice to the cause of the Palestinian people,” he says, responding to a question from Carole Yadan, a lawmaker from the presidential camp. Yadan was among 20 other deputies to warn Barrot in a letter yesterday that Albanese should be “stripped of any UN mandate with immediate effect” following her remarks.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/france-calls-on-anti-israel-un-rights-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-to-resign/

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🇫🇷 The French government is sending a message about digital independence by ditching Microsoft Teams and Zoom for its own platform, Visio. This move is not about a lack of features but a calculated push for digital sovereignty. By 2027, every government department in France will communicate via this sovereign stack, ensuring that sensitive data remains subject to European law. The shift addresses a growing concern that relying on foreign cloud giants creates a strategic vulnerability. France is opting for an open-source architecture built on Django and React, hosted on the domestic Outscale cloud. This infrastructure removes the risk of external service disruptions while fostering a local tech ecosystem.

🧠 The Visio platform integrates with Tchap, a secure messaging app based on the Matrix protocol.
⚡ French startup Pyannote provides the AI backbone for meeting transcripts and speaker identification.
🎓 The administration expects to save millions in annual licensing …

L'Université française se meurt :

"On meurt dans mon université et je me refuse à choisir dans quels départements seront les prochains morts. Notre demande est légitime, nous ne voulons pas y renoncer. Aveuglement, indifférence, mépris, volonté de soumettre sans écouter, c’est ce que vit aujourd’hui ma communauté. Zola dénonçait les injustices d’une société qui pour ménager les plus riches écrasait les plus pauvres. La situation de mon université, c’est bien du Zola, Monsieur le Président."

https://www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/communiques/lettre-ouverte-danne-fra%C3%AFsse-pr%C3%A9sidente-de-luniversit%C3%A9-de-montpellier-paul

to ban officials from video tools including Zoom, Teams

✍️ Émile Marzolf

The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead.

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-ban-officials-us-video-tools-zoom-teams-visio

🇫🇷 French government accounts to follow:

(All in French)

@cnes - CNES / Centre National d’Études Spatiales
@cnrs - CNRS / Centre national de la recherche scientifique
@CNRS_INSU - CNRS Terre & Univers
@CNRSingenierie - CNRS Ingénierie
@ouvrirlascience - Comité pour la science ouverte
@cnil - CNIL / Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés
@cert_fr - CERT-FR / Computer Emergency Response Team France
@numerique_gouv - DINUM / Direction interministérielle du Numérique

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