France Is Great. What Else Is New?

It's almost time for the World Cup. Before the tournament, we'll be previewing each of the top 15 teams by FIFA rankings that made the tournament. Why the top 15? Because that's how many we needed to do in order for the USMNT to make the cut. You can read all of our previews here.


Nobody fell in love with France this year, for the same reason nobody fell in love with France in 2022 or…

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The spy who ate live animals, documents, and possibly a toddler

Tarrare was an 18th-century French showman and soldier who could eat almost without limit and was "constantly hungry." As a performer, he "swallowed corks, stones, live animals, and a whole basketful of apples." In the French Revolutionary Army, "even quadrupling the standard military ration was unable to satisfy his large appetite." — Read the rest

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Artaud le momo

The Return of Artaud Le Mômo The anchored spirit, screwed into me by the psycho- lubricious thrust of the sky is the one who thinks every temptation, every desire, every inhibition. o dedi o dada orzoura o dou zoura a dada skizi o kaya o kaya pontoura o ponoura a pena poni It’s the penetral […]

Artaud le momo

The Return of Artaud Le Mômo The anchored spirit, screwed into me by the psycho- lubricious thrust of the sky is the one who thinks every temptation, every desire, every inhibition. o dedi o dada orzoura o dou zoura a dada skizi o kaya o kaya pontoura o ponoura a pena poni It’s the penetral […]

Top 5 Medieval Towns In France Without The Paris Summer Crowds

Love it or hate it, Paris is without question one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Trust me, I've been living here for 5+ years now, and I'm yet to run out of breathtaking sights and flowery cafés to discover. There's just one major downside—other than dealing with the hellish French bureaucracy and …

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‘Minority Report’ in France

Jared Taylor tells Paul Kersey about his adventures in Paris, where police broke up a meeting to make sure he wouldn’t break “hate speech” laws. Taylor and Kersey also discuss Henry Nowak, Karmelo Anthony, and the SPLC. Subscribe to Radio Renaissance podcasts on Substack here. Subscribe on Bitchute here. Find this podcast on X here. […]

The Dutch Style Of Pickup Soccer And A Dog Named Jeff, With Leander Schaerlaeckens

It's not the sort of anxiety that haunts you, or maybe it just rates below too many of my other haunting anxieties to register. But as a non-soccer person, the quadrennial arrival of the World Cup has a peculiar and not altogether unpleasant anxiety about it; a bunch of stuff is about to happen that I do not really know anything about, and I am going to put myself happily in that wave's way and…

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Made You Smile (17 Photos)

Ordinary streets get funnier when artists let walls, lamps, pipes, shadows, and statues join the joke.

A fresh mix of murals, small interventions, sculptures, and street surprises from around the world — all built around a clever visual twist.

🐈 Cats and a Lamp Post — By Woskerski in Larne, Northern Ireland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿

Two ginger cats are painted on the side of Ruby’s Bodega. In…

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The World’s Best Merlot Regions, Mapped

While Merlot originated in Bordeaux, the grape grows well all around the world. Its cultivation now stretches from its homeland in Europe to the Pacific Northwest of the United States and the Southern Hemisphere. Merlot is often compared to Cabernet Sauvignon: The two go hand in hand because they are the most common varieties in Bordeaux and known for headlining the region’s world-class,…

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Top 3 Affordable European Destinations With Less Crowds This Summer

They say to never settle, but that’s exactly what travelers end up doing when visiting some of the most sought-after destinations on Earth. When it comes to Europe, certain icons like Barcelona are unabashedly tagging their beautiful city streets with graffiti in a guerrilla anti-tourism campaign, while others like Paris are still as bustling as …

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Paris enters unprecedented May heat streak as France experiences record-breaking temperatures

France recorded its hottest May day since records began on May 26, 2026, while temperatures climbed to 37.8 °C in southwestern parts of the country on May 28. Multiple stations across France set new all-time May temperature records this week as a prolonged heat dome pushed daytime temperatures into the upper 30s°C (upper 90s°F) and kept nighttime temperatures unusually high across much of the…

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