Journalist. "Nuance is the new radical."
Paris, France
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Henry Bouvier 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇸 retweeted
🔴 Watch a Russian drone attacking a civilian woman in Kherson driving a civilian car.
The pilots have proudly shared the video, arranging it to music.
The drone and artillery attacks today are at the highest.
Source: a Russian Telegram channel (see 2/2 🧵)
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“All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!”
Henry Bouvier 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇸 retweeted
A guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery has loudly reprimanded a group of people that included Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth for making noise at the memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony.
Henry Bouvier 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇸 retweeted
Really interesting (and worrying) polling on French pensions
The electorate estimates that for every pensioner we have 6 workers.
In reality it's 1.8/1... Even in 1960s we weren't close to 6/1.
Melenchon's supporters think its 13/1.
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Mr Mélenchon, Ukrainians have already settled the question of their country's borders.
In the 1991 national referendum, more than 90% of voters backed Ukraine's independence within its current, internationally recognised borders. A majority voted "yes" in every region, including Donbas (83%).
Only Russia chose to disregard the choice of Ukrainians and change borders by force, launching a war of aggression. Putin refuses to end the war despite constructive proposals from Ukraine and its partners, and this is the only reason the war is still going on.
"Referendums" under occupation are a tool of annexation, not an expression of the people's will. No civilised, democratic country would ever accept this for its own borders, so it should not be proposed to Ukrainians.
Nous entrerons franchement dans le règlement de l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine. Nous, Français, ne pouvons jamais accepter que l'on envahisse son voisin !
Nous refusons que la discussion sur la paix en Ukraine soit menée sans les représentants des nations d'Europe. Nous n'acceptons pas qu'on ait abandonné l'exigence de garanties mutuelles de sécurité, non seulement entre l'Ukraine et la Russie, mais entre toutes les nations d'Europe, la nôtre incluse, et la Russie.
Nous n'acceptons pas qu'on envisage une paix avec des concessions territoriales en Ukraine, sans qu'on demande aux populations concernées si elles sont d'accord pour se trouver de ce côté-ci de la frontière ou de l'autre.
C'est au peuple de décider lui-même de ce qu'il veut.
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“We will implement any other proportionate and necessary measures, whether public or not, to respond to that attack.” — @jnbarrot
France has blamed Iran’s Revolutionary Guard for cyberattacks on supermarket fridges, vowing to retaliate. The EU is set to implement sanctions.
🔴 Direct #G7 │ Suivez l'accueil officiel de l'Arabie saoudite, du Brésil, de la Corée du Sud et de l'Égypte à la réunion du G7 à Paris. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/2ReMdlyrW…
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Breaking: Nvidia announced Sunday it is launching an independent investigation into its chief executive and founder, Jensen Huang, over concerns he was the “target of a foreign intelligence effort.”
cnn.com/2026/11/08/business/…
Henry Bouvier 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇸 retweeted
« L’ignorance et la bêtise sont des facteurs considérables de l’Histoire. »
« Il n’y a plus que des monologues en France… ou des injures. »
Raymond Aron
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Unsurprisingly, Churchill seems to be at the very least on the point of crying, if not actually in tears.
🇲🇫 🇬🇧 6 novembre 1958, le Général de Gaulle remet à Churchill la croix de la Libération : « Je tiens à ce que Sir Winston Churchill sache ceci : la cérémonie d’aujourd’hui signifie que la France sait ce qu’elle lui doit. »
De retour au pouvoir en mai 1958, de Gaulle décide à titre exceptionnel, et en témoignage de l’estime qu’il lui porte, de rouvrir l’Ordre de Libération pour Winston Churchill.
Le décret, signé le 18 juin 1958, est un hommage : « Comme Premier Ministre de Grande-Bretagne, au moment du pire danger couru par l’Europe, a inspiré et dirigé la résistance de son pays et contribué, par-là, d’une manière décisive à sauver la liberté du monde. […] »
Le 6 novembre, à l'hôtel Matignon, après avoir prononcé les paroles rituelles : « Nous vous reconnaissons comme notre compagnon pour la libération de la France, dans l’honneur et par la victoire », de Gaulle décore Churchill.
À l’issue de la cérémonie, le Général Ingold, chancelier de l’ordre de la Libération, remit aussi à Churchill une croix de Lorraine en cristal.
Henry Bouvier 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇸 retweeted
France sells more electricity to its neighbors than any other country in Europe, 92.3 TWh net in 2025. Nuclear plants supply most of the country's power, and reactors run day and night at a fuel cost close to zero, so whenever French demand dips the surplus flows across the borders.
ALT Map of French nuclear power plants by reactor type (900, 1,300, 1,450 and 1,600 MWe). Wikimedia Commons, by Sting, Roulex_45, Domaina and Calvin411, 2016, CC BY 2.5.
Henry Bouvier 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇸 retweeted
A group of hackers published classified data on Russian soldiers killed in the war, from Russia's statistics agency Rosstat. In late August, the total was 450,100 (around 100k per year). It is in line with other independent estimates. There is also a regional breakdown.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has expressed his admiration for China’s imperialism, recently stated that China is a more reliable partner than the USA. Le Monde revealed that China is the top supplier of components used in FPV drones that kill Ukrainian civilians.
Les USA ont proposé aux Russes et aux Chinois un sommet de négociations sur la guerre en Ukraine. Les Chinois ont décliné. Mais ils ont déclaré que c’était aux Européens d’avoir une place à la table des négociations. Les atlantistes français et les antichinois pavloviens n'ont-ils pas honte de leur allégeance ? La Chine est un partenaire bien plus fiable que les USA.
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Joshua Wong, face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, jailed for 10 years bbc.in/4BIzgdp
Henry Bouvier 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇸 retweeted
Italian chef fired for refusing to put pineapple on pizza bbc.in/4egT8uf
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Nobody lives on 57% of the land in the EU, Norway, and Switzerland 💥
#30DayMapChallenge Day 4: Clusters
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Search and rescue operations have now been underway for three days at the site of the Russian strike on a school in the settlement of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region. The Russians used nine aerial bombs. They first struck people who had come to receive humanitarian aid, and then first responders and police officers who arrived at the scene.
All necessary services are involved. It is an extremely difficult operation, very challenging, and it is being carried out under virtually constant threat of new Russian strikes. As of now, 40 people have been reported killed. Unfortunately, some bodies have not yet been identified. My condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed. More than 30 people may still be under the rubble.
Unfortunately, there has been very little reaction from the world to this insane attack. But it, like thousands upon thousands of other war crimes Russia has committed against Ukraine and Ukrainians, demands a strong response. Evil always goes further if it is left unanswered. We count on a response – Ukraine needs air defense support right now. I am grateful to the partners who are taking such steps.
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🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇲 “We would be wrong and would be making a serious mistake (...). The French people do not wish to be anyone’s vassals and intend to remain free.” — @jnbarrot
It’s too late for that. The damage has been done. Here is the reaction of the French MFA to the midterms.
