France has become Europe’s Wild West
It’s not much fun being a Parisian these days unless, of course, you’re a person of importance who has private transport and a security detail
New caledonia
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Why Beijing's nickname for France's president is 'Macaron'
Putin, Xi and Azerbaijan all stand to gain from unrest on the Pacific island
Thursday
A meditation on exile and the meaning of home
What does home mean? Where your dead are buried, as Zulus believe? Or where you left your heart, as a migrant’s saying goes? In these pages William Atkins melds history, biography and travel into a meditation on exile and the meaning of home. It is a volume for our times, as the author seeks to reveal ‘something about the nature of displacement itself’. Part One introduces the three 19th-century political exiles who form the spine of the book. Louise Michel (1830-1905), the illegitimate daughter of a maid in Haute-Marne, became an anarchist and Communard, who murdered policemen with her Remington carbine. Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868-1913), the young king of the Zulu
