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La Jeune Politique is moving!

March 18, 2015 By

We are making a move to a new and improved site! We are excited to share this step with all of you. Stay tuned.

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The Freedom to Be Funny: Reflecting on France’s Tradition of Satire

January 23, 2015 By Leave a Comment

In a 2012 Le Monde interview the late publishing director of Charlie Hebdo, Stéphane Charbonnier said these now iconic words: “I would rather die standing up than live on my knees.” (In fact the quote originates with Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.) In the same article, another of the magazine’s cartoonists injured in the attack, Riss […]

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In Other News

March in Paris Brings “Fraternity” into the Foreground

January 12, 2015 By

PARIS — More than 4 million people marched all over France yesterday, January 11, 2015. Between 1.5 and 2 millions took to the streets in Paris alone. In fact these numbers are only vague estimations, since the crowds in Paris were so large and their routes so unpredictable, that it was impossible to truly count the […]