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Live: France's Macron to reshuffle cabinet after losing parliamentary majority

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to reshuffle his government on Monday after losing his majority in France's National Assembly. Follow our liveblog to find out who is in and out of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne's cabinet. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

🇫🇷🇺🇦 FRENCH MEDIA SHOWS UKRAINIAN POSITIONS, GETS AT LEAST 1 UKRAINIAN KILLED IN FOLLOWING RUSSIAN STRIKES

👉🏻 The prominent mainstream media TF1 shared two weeks ago a report on commercial drones being used for reconnaissance by the Ukrainian army. Only issue? They shared with their audience a clear and up-to-date description of Ukrainian positions (0:55).

😰 Surely, what could go wrong? According to MilitaryLand and Polish journalist Mateusz Lachowski, the footage was used to target the location, and killed at least one soldier, nicknamed "Keks".

🔍 Not only that, but still according to Mateusz, the news crew told the soldiers they would blur and obscure any confidential material, only to rush back and immediately publish their story without censoring anything.

✍🏻 Were French media always so reckless? Back during the 2015 terror attacks, mainstream media BFMTV was giving away on live television the location of individuals trapped in a building occupied by terrorists.

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Loud was now the clamour, and great the slaughter; many a soul then quitted the body it inhabited.

The living marched over the heaps of dead, and each side was weary of striking. He charged on who could, and he who could no longer strike still pushed forward.

The strong struggled with the strong; some failed, others triumphed; the cowards fell back, the brave pressed on; and sad was his fate who fell in the midst, for he had little chance of rising again; and many in truth fell who never rose at all, being crushed under the throng.

📖 The Battle of Hastings, as recounted by Master Robert Wace in the Roman De Rou (1106)

🇫🇷⚡️JUST IN: Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced the intent to re-nationalize the electricity firm EDF in order to ensure the country's energy security

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For it must be made clear at last that the mortal enemy, the merciless enemy of the German people is and remains France.

No matter who has ruled or will rule France; whether it be the Bourbons or the Jacobins, the Napoleons or the bourgeois democrats, the clerical republicans or the red Bolshevists.

The final goal of their foreign policy will always be to seize the Rhine border and consolidate France's position on that river, making every effort to keep Germany disunited and fragmented.

📖 Mein Kampf, vol. 2 — Adolf Hitler, 1926

It was about 3 pm on April 24, 1945, when the column started to cross the canal. The men made their way through the rubble of a bridge, and several trips were needed to transfer ammunitions. Three soldiers of the Volkssturm watched them pass, and finally decided to go and approach Krukeneberg with an embarrassed look on their faces.

— Herr General, the bridge...
— Yes, well, the bridge...
— We're the one who blew it up.
— «What?! » Roared the commander of the Charlemagne division. «But you're completely crazy!»

The old men of the Volkssturm, with their shabby civilian suits and yellowish armbands, made an apologetic gesture:

— We didn't know, we thought you were Russians. The pioneers told us to blow up everything before Ivan arrived.
— «After all», says Pachur, philosopher, «it's better to be too early than too late».

One of the old men sighed:
— If we had known you were Germans.

Patzak burst out laughing and says, imitating the Berlin accent:
— But we aren't Germans, old man. We're French.
— «Franzosen?!» repeats the Volkssturm officer with a totally amazed look.
— «But yes», explains Patzak. «We're French SS».
— Well I'll be damned...

📖 Dying In Berlin — Jean Mabire, 1975

⚡️Paris City Council backs agreement on cooperation for restoration of Kyiv.

Paris City Council voted unanimously on July 8 to back an agreement for the cooperation between Kyiv and Paris that was signed during the Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's visit to the capital in April.

The agreement includes Paris' help in reconstruction of Kyiv. "Paris stands alongside the Kyivans and their municipality for peace and the reconstruction of the Ukrainian capital," Arnaud Ngatcha, deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of Europe, international relations and the Francophonie tweeted on July 8.

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A massive fire that ravaged 650 hectares (1,600 acres) and forced people to evacuate in southern France has been brought under control, the fire service said Saturday
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Jumping out of the trench in the early morning mist, I found myself in front of a huddled-up corpse, a Frenchman. The putrid flesh, like the flesh of fishes, gleamed greenish-white through the rents in the uniform. I turned away and then started back in horror: close to me a figure cowered beside a tree.

It wore the shining straps and belt of the French, and high upon its back there was still the loaded pack, crowned with a round cooking utensil. Empty eye-sockets and the few wisps of hair on the black and weathered skull told me that this was no living man.

Another sat with the upper part of the body clapped down over the legs as though broken through the middle. All round lay dozens of corpses, putrefied, calcined, mummified, fixed in a ghastly dance of death. The French must have carried on for months without burying their fallen comrades.

📖 Storm of Steel — Ernst Junger, 1920

🇫🇷"They sanctioned the French more than Russia."

The leader of the National Unification party faction in the French parliament, Marine Le Pen, said that EU sanctions against Russia were completely ineffective.

She also noted that the conflict in Ukraine can be resolved only by means of diplomacy.

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⚡️ French Economy Minister: Moscow 'most likely' to totally halt gas supplies to Europe.

French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on July 10 that France should prepare for a total cut-off of Russian gas. The French government is working to protect companies that may need support in case of supply disruption. "We have to anticipate and to put ourselves in order of battle as of now," he said.

🇫🇷 ‘Violence guarantees success’: how Uber exploited taxi protests

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New Guide ~ How We Built a Fren Movement: The Power of the Rosary

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This is a long-term project about guiding all of us into thriving in our respective societies, despite all the problems one might face each step of the way. For lonely, young, right-wing Men with social problems, we wrote the "How to make friends" guide with @ChristianReactionary & @chadistan. This guide provided explanations regarding how to cease being a chronic loner and make friends. 

Now, for these same young men that progressed and can manage to find a few friends, handle social situations better, for this situation we wrote, "How to Make A Fren Movement" with @GalliaDaily & @CIG_telegram. That guide applied social disciplines to searching-for/organizing like-minded people and setting up real-life groups and a network of high-trust friendships. 

Once you have a good network and many friends, what now? Time to think bigger. This led us to our new guide, " How We Built a Fren Movement: The Power of the Rosary" with @CIG_telegram & @ChristianReactionary. This time we will actually show you how we applied a tiered framework, in this case through a Catholic ontological context.

The thumbnail you see was the "Rosary for The Youth of Spain" event. Thanks to God, we helped in its organization and we ended up attracting 3,000-4,000 mainstream Catholics to pray the rosary in the center of Madrid. 

We also organized Men's Rosaries following the example of Poland, in Madrid last April. Through Men's Rosaries we reached out towards devout and conservative Catholics.  We attracted about 300-400 attendees and many countries have followed our example.

For the ingroup activities, we strengthened the youth programs of our parish, the amount of people in these activities numbered about 20-50 people usually. 

All of this has been a blessing in many ways, to truly praise God in the streets, it's a way to unite everyone in prayer, despite their differences. If you want to see the fruits of our labor and the process we used in more detail, check out our article. 

🇫🇷🇺🇦France refuses Ukrainian refugees.

In French refugee aid centers, announcements have appeared about restricting the admission of migrants.

"Since July 10, the Association for Preliminary Admission has limited the admission of Ukrainian refugees to 10 people per day," the document says.

The ad also describes a bunch of bureaucratic requirements that a person must pass in order to receive "protection" from Paris.

Here is such a "peremoga" for Ukrainian partners.

Photo: @new_militarycolumnist

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Goddess on the Rocks by Gustave Moreau, 1890

I immediately sent one of our sailors to unfurl a tricolor flag on these lands which no human creature had ever seen or trodden before us.

According to the old custom that the English have preciously preserved, we took possession of it in the name of France. Our enthusiasm and our joy were such then, that it seemed to us that we had just added a province to the French territory by this most peaceful conquest.

We therefore immediately considered ourselves to be on French soil. This one will at least have the advantage of never provoking any war to our country.

The ceremony ended, as it should have, with a drink. We emptied a bottle of the most generous of these wines (which one of our companions had the presence of mind to bring with him) to the glory of France, which was then occupying us very keenly.

Never was Bordeaux wine called upon to play a more dignified role: never was a bottle emptied more appropriately. Surrounded on all sides by snow and eternal ice, the cold was most vivid. This generous liquor reacted advantageously against the rigors of this temperature.

📖 Diaries of French explorer Dumont d'Urville, describing being the first man to set foot on Antartica in January 1840

🇫🇷🦠 THE FAR RIGHT AND THE FAR LEFT VOTE TOGETHER AGAINST MACRON'S VACCINE PASSPORT

👉🏻 Following the last French legislative elections, the National Assembly is now split into three distinct blocs: the far-left bloc (NUPES: neo-Marxist and ecological coalition), the far-right bloc (Marine Le Pen's RN) and the centrist bloc of Macron and the Republican party.

🔎 Macron's deputies wanted to vote today for a law extending the vaccine passport policy in particular. This law had been passed with ease in the former parliament.

🗳️ But today, the far left and the far right voted together against Macron's project.

📌 The health passport was therefore rejected by the deputies.

📸 The photo shows the two camps, on opposite sides of the parliament, celebrating together this victory over Macron.

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📸 The photo shows the French far right and the French far left, on opposite sides of the parliament, celebrating together their victory over Macron : the dismissal of the Vaccine Passport law.