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Share 'These general officers will each pass before a higher military council. At the end of this procedure, it is the President of the Republic who signs a decree expelling them'. The 18 serving officers joined thousands of retired ones who had signed an open letter warning that France was heading for 'civil war' because of radical Islam. It said action was needed to fight the 'suburban hordes' - a reference to the predominantly immigrant population of the housing estates which surround French cities – or else there would be 'thousands of deaths'. President Macron's government strongly con...

Malmaison in the sky Malmaison is familiar to many as the château of the Empress Josephine in Rueil-Malmaison, eight miles west of Paris. In 1978, though, Malmaison moved to New York—figuratively speaking—in the form of Roger Prigent’s fabled Malmaison Antiques, which introduced French Empire furnishings of the highest quality to the United States. An insatiable—yet discerning—collector who refers to Josephine as “the first lady of the world” and once bought a white Cadillac just because he liked the radio, even though he does not drive, Prigent has led a singularly atypical li...