Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding tale….

I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical..

Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had been close….

I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then there were things like the film "T….

Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable of some horre….

Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them ….

Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of….

Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democ….

A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, ….

There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the Frenc….