2+ week, 1+ day ago   (834+ words) Finally, it asks the question that neither this eighth installment nor the seven before it had yet posed so directly: must France keep searching, in its face-to-face with Berlin alone, for the horizon that sixty years have not been enough…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1154+ words) One night in the Caucasus, in July 1990. One night in front of the Reichstag, three months later. Between the two, Germany became a fully sovereign state again — and nothing about the Franco-German relationship would ever be quite the same. This…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (715+ words) by Joël-François Dumont — Paris, 20 August 2026 The carnage of 1914-1918 had already stirred, among victors and vanquished alike, a determination for “never again” translated into institutions. The League of Nations, created in 1920 at the urging of American President Wilson, was meant to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (794+ words) by Joël-François Dumont — Paris, August 19, 2026 At Berlin, the collapse of the front was accompanied by an equally brutal political collapse. On 9 November 1918, Chancellor Max von Baden announced — without even having received formal confirmation — the abdication of Wilhelm II, before resigning…...