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   (873+ words) by Joël-François Dumont — Paris, 22 August 2026 This personal trust, built before any written agreement, would become the foundation on which the institutional formalization of the relationship would rest five years later. Four years after Colombey, a gesture would help pave the…...

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, 3+ 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…...