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Paris, France · ParisUnder a grey sky of January 1793, the Place de la Révolution exhales a smell of mud and sweat, mixed with the feverish expectation of a compact crowd. Charles-Henri Sanson, a massive silhouette draped with a dark coat, climbs the steps of the scaffold, the heavy heart. This executioner, heir to a cursed dynasty, is about to cut the head of Louis XVI, an act that will make his name change in eternity. Between duty and internal torment, he (...)Read Article
Louis Xvi and Robespierre : Charles-Henri Sanson, the Executioner of the Terror
France · FranceWhile "eco-anxiety" is so unresistible in the media, France's environmental history remains at least unknown. The republican regime that succeeds the Second Business Empire, "claimed heir of the Saint-Simonian tradition", has used the territory's natural resources to "improve life". It was built as "a narrative of the advent of a higher degree of civilization through scientific mastery and (...) Free TribuneRead Article
France, an Unknown Environmental History
United States · United StatesAmerican Imperialism American imperialism, built on the supremacy of the dollar, unrivalled military power and cultural hegemony, is collapsing. Internal crises – galloping financialization, deindustrialization, colossal debt, gangsterization, health decline, dilapidated infrastructure – and external crises, such as the costly engagement in Ukraine and the rise of BRICS, announce a decline that could end in our lifetime. If (...) Free TrialRead Article
