Hélène Dutrieu: on two wheels or in the air, still a pioneer
Every Saturday with RetroNews, the BNF press site, a look back at a sport history as told by the press of the time. From cycling … Read more
XXth century
Soviet ghosts by Natascha Wodin
Yevgenya Yakovlevna Ivashchenko, the author’s mother, has always been on the wrong side, but the portrayal of her daughter is poignant. “If you had seen … Read more
“Billie”, double blow of the blues
She was nicknamed a unique Billie, and for posterity she became Lady Day. The one whose baptismal name Eleanora Harris Fagan will have marked with … Read more
At the Grand-Colombier, the hornets panic in the peloton
At the old “Rendez-vous des gourmets”, near Millau, the hornets spoil everything and annoy everyone. The boss has tried the traps, the blue light that … Read more
Niki de Saint Phalle in all its glory
Niki de Saint Phalle, 1930 – 2002. A destiny broken down from childhood, falling into the irreversible at 11 years old; its intimate and initially … Read more
Hiking, a triumphant march
Seghir Lazri works on the theme of the social vulnerability of athletes. In this column, he sifts a few clichés of sport through the social … Read more
“Malmkrog”, the rhetorical ride – Culture / Next
When he writes his Three Interviews on War, Morality and Religion (1899), the Russian philosopher and theologian Vladimir Soloviev is not yet 50 years old … Read more
Freedom monitored in minors mode
In a 1949 text entitled the Criminal Child, Jean Genet denounced the “Trap of good intentions” which, according to him, constituted the ordinance of 1945 … Read more