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A French nun, who is believed to be Europe’s oldest-living person, has successfully defeated coronavirus at age 116. According The Washington Post, Sister André was among the 81 residents at Sainte Catherine Labouré retirement home who tested positive for the disease last month. Though 10 of those residents reportedly died from the disease, Sister André —birth name Lucile Randon—was said to have […]
Virgil Abloh, whose new track with Serpentwithfeet is out now, has announced a series of physical and digital men’s fashion events in Paris for January. The public experiences, which carry the collective title Louis Vuitton: Walk in the Park, are designed to build on the existing concepts and icons conceived for the house by Abloh. First […]
French police were finally able to end an illegal rave that drew more than 2,500 people from across the country, the New York Post reports. The rave party started on Thursday and was expected to last until at least Tuesday before it was finally broken up on Saturday. This wasn’t the first time police tried to […]
Four Parisian police officers have been charged in the beating of a Black music producer earlier this month, after video of the cops beating him in the doorway of his recording studio went viral. The inciting incident appeared to be Zecler standing outside the studio without a face covering, which is illegal under France’s coronavirus […]
Emily Ratajkowski has carved out a space for herself as more than just another pretty face. This moved her to call a French journalist “gross” for reducing her to just her physical attributes. A profile the model did for French Marie Claire in 2018 resurfaced on Sunday via Twitter. In the article, Thomas Chatterton Williams reportedly described Ratajkowski as “the sexiest version […]
Three people have been killed in a knife attack in the French city of Nice. The attacker, who killed two women and a man at the Notre Dame church, was later wounded by local police and hospitalized. The anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office is now investigating the killings, according to the Associated Press. Police are reportedly not […]
Paris’ iconic Grand Palais is collaborating with Perrotin Gallery to host an art scavenger hunt, where participants are invited to search for 20 free artworks by 20 artists, including a piece by Takashi Murakami. Called “Wanted!,” the project will take place over the course of 48 hours, from Oct. 24 to Oct. 25, and is free of […]
A schoolteacher was decapitated in France on Friday after allegedly showing students a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed, France’s anti-terror prosecutor’s office revealed. As CNN reports, the victim’s body was found in the Parisian suburb of Éragny-sur-Oise, which is just northwest of the capital. The perpetrator of the attack was later shot dead by police in the same area. […]
A man in France, who has his entire body and face covered in tattoos, in addition to the whites of his eyes surgically turned black, claims he’s no longer allowed to teach kindergartners after a parent complained about their child having nightmares due to his appearance, Reuters reports. Sylvain Helaine, 35, had been teaching a kindergarten class at the […]
A group of men in the city of Bayonne, France attacked a local bus driver after they were asked to wear masks. According to a report from the Guardian, Philippe Monguillot, the 59-year-old bus driver, later died after being declared brain dead. The attack took place on Sunday, after Monguillot refused to let a group […]
