DHL Express to open a new logistics platform in France to extend its lead over FedEx and UPS
In mid-2025, the German group will open this new €121 million logistics platform next to Lyon airport. It’s a huge 13,000 m2 red and yellow building on a site the size of seven rugby pitches next to Lyon’s Saint-Exupéry airport. DHL will receive its first parcels from July 2025. The new 24-hour logistics platform will […]
what would the American electoral system have looked like in France?
ANALYSIS – Based on the results of the last French presidential elections, Le Figaro has carried out various projections using the American voting system. With some surprises in store. While Americans elect their president this Tuesday, November 5, The Figaro has studied how the U.S. electoral system would be applied to the French presidential election. […]
end of season for Novak Djokovic, withdrawal from the Turin Masters
Already absent from the Rolex Paris Masters in Bercy, defending champion Novak Djokovic will miss next week’s tournament in Italy, which brings together the season’s eight best players. Anything but a surprise. He skipped Bercy. He won’t be in Turin. Novak Djokovic announced on Tuesday on his social networks that he was withdrawing from the […]
The new MoonSwatch displays Moon phases and… Earth phases!
Swatch’s tribute watch to the Omega Speedmaster has once again made a splash, inventing a watchmaking complication as special as it is spatial: the phases of the Earth as seen from the Moon. What could be more logical? When you’re on Earth, you measure the passing of the months through the phases of the Moon […]
Dîner de cons: François Pignon’s lines, annotated by Jacques Villeret, exhumed
By Le Figaro with AFP Published 1 hour ago, updated at 1:15 pm ” data-script=”https://static.lefigaro.fr/widget-video/short-ttl/video/index.js” > The notes of the cult actor, who died in 2005, also unforgettable in Cabbage Soup (1981), will be published on Wednesday November 6 by Fayard. A wonderful opportunity to enter the mind of a legend of French cinema and […]
Searches underway at Netflix offices in Paris and Amsterdam
These investigations, carried out on Tuesday November 5, are part of an investigation by the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office into suspicions of tax fraud and undeclared work. New episode between Netflix and European justice. The French subsidiary in Paris and the group’s European headquarters in Amsterdam were searched on Tuesday October 5 as part […]
Miguel Bonnefoy wins the Prix Femina 2024 with Le Rêve du jaguar
Kamel Daoud favorite for Goncourt ahead of Gaël Faye According to literary critics interviewed by the magazine Livres Hebdothe author of Mice has a good chance of making it to the top of the most prestigious awards list this Monday, November 4. Especially as his publisher, Gallimard, has not received any other major awards this […]
Adidas unveils the new jersey of the French national team
Les Bleus will wear it for the first time this Saturday evening at the Stade de France in the first test of their November tour against Japan. The new jersey of the XV de France was unveiled on Tuesday by Adidas, the successor to Le Coq Sportif. Antoine Dupont’s Les Bleus will debut it this […]
The 11 best watches of 2024 crowned in Paris
With more than 120,000 voters, the Watch of the Year evening organized by watchmaking youtuber Frank sans C rewarded the eleven timepieces preferred by Internet users. For the third edition of La Montre de l’Année 2024 competition, organized by journalist and youtuber Frank sans C, 121447 voters decided between the 114 watches nominated in 11 […]
With Lovecraft, the Pléiade scares us
CHRONICLE – Howard Phillips Lovecraft enters the prestigious collection on bible paper. It’s a sign that the end of times is approaching. You who enter this article, abandon all hope. It’s already too late, you’re haunted by the curse. You’ll lose your mind and drool green poison all over your magazine. Your teeth will fall […]