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Born in Lyon in 1924, Jarre was no child prodigy; he was in his late teens before he decided to study music. In Paris after the war he hooked up with two exceptional impresarios of French theater: Jean-Louis Barrault and Jean Vilar. For Vilar he wrote incidental music for...
The rupture came after French legal investigators indicted nine members of Rwanda's government - and implicated President Paul Kagame - for alleged complicity in the political assassinations that proceeded the Hutu genocide of Rwandan Tutsis. The indictments also charge those officials with acts aimed at amplifying the slaughter of their fellow...
Sarkozy also plans to visit Brazzaville, capital of the neighboring Republic of Congo, and Niger, in search of business opportunities for French companies. French commentators have noted how such business-as-usual tightness with African cronies, whose track record on democracy and human rights often leaves much to be desired...
That effort has stirred Le Pen, who sat in France's parliament for seven years, from a relative silent spell. During a session of the European Union's legislature on March 25, Le Pen repeated his notorious contention that "the gas chambers were a detail of Second World War history...
To avoid bankruptcy last year, Le Pen's National Front party sold its headquarters in the tony Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud to Chinese buyers. Until this week's brouhaha, Le Pen had been focused on making way as leader for his daughter Marine. Other would-be successors, who believe...