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Le Gorafi (French pronunciation: [lə ɡɔʁafi]; anagram of Le Figaro) is a news satire website. It was created in May 2012 during the French presidential campaign in the style of The Onion, a satirical newspaper of fake information. [1] It has also been compared with Infos du Monde [2] and L'Examineur.
Le Rire (French: [lə ʁiʁ], "Laughter") was a successful French humor magazine published from October 1894 until its final issue in April 1971. Founded in Paris during the Belle Époque by Felix Juven , Le Rire appeared as typical Parisians began to achieve more education, income and leisure time.
Onésime Reclus (22 September 1837 [1] – 30 June 1916) was a French geographer who specialized in the relations between France and its colonies.. In 1880 he coined the term "Francophonie" as a means of classification of peoples of the world, being determined by the language they all spoke. [2]
'Irony' comes from the Greek eironeia (εἰρωνεία) and dates back to the 5th century BCE.This term itself was coined in reference to a stock-character from Old Comedy (such as that of Aristophanes) known as the eiron, who dissimulates and affects less intelligence than he has—and so ultimately triumphs over his opposite, the alazon, a vain-glorious braggart.
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (French: Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard) is the first novel by Anatole France, published in 1881.With this, one of his first prose works, he made himself known as a novelist; he had been primarily known as a poet affiliated with Parnassianism because of his Poèmes dorés, [1] which imitated that verse style. [2]
As the NYT site instructs, for Connections Sports Edition, you "group sports terms that share a common thread." Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Thursday, February 20, 2025 The ...
The Richelieu site occupies a full city block in Paris, surrounded by rue de Richelieu (west), rue des Petits-Champs (south), rue Vivienne (east), and rue Colbert (north). There are two entrances, respectively on 58, rue de Richelieu and 5, rue Vivienne. This site was the main location of the library for 275 years, from 1721 to 1996.
An associate of Cassie Ventura, whose allegations of abuse against Sean "Diddy" Combs kicked off the hip-hop mogul's deluge of legal woes, is sharing what she witnessed of the pair's allegedly ...