Agnes C. Poirier
@agnescpoirier.bsky.social
Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
I didn’t see it coming.
« Diary of a prisoner »…
Nicolas #Sarkozy’s three weeks in prison soon in a bookshop near you…
« Diary of a prisoner »…
Nicolas #Sarkozy’s three weeks in prison soon in a bookshop near you…
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I didn’t see it coming.
« Diary of a prisoner »…
Nicolas #Sarkozy’s three weeks in prison soon in a bookshop near you…
« Diary of a prisoner »…
Nicolas #Sarkozy’s three weeks in prison soon in a bookshop near you…
Interlude.
La couleur du café.
La couleur du café.
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Interlude.
La couleur du café.
La couleur du café.
Understanding Jacques-Louis #David at last thanks to beautiful and enlightening exhibition at @museelouvre.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Understanding Jacques-Louis #David at last thanks to beautiful and enlightening exhibition at @museelouvre.bsky.social
The BBC must reform or face irrelevance.
In L'Express this week (in French) 👇
lexpress.envoy.gift/QLsnML
In L'Express this week (in French) 👇
lexpress.envoy.gift/QLsnML
La BBC, grandeur et décadence : le brûlant dossier israélo-palestinien, l'épineuse question des LGBT+
Europe
lexpress.envoy.gift
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The BBC must reform or face irrelevance.
In L'Express this week (in French) 👇
lexpress.envoy.gift/QLsnML
In L'Express this week (in French) 👇
lexpress.envoy.gift/QLsnML
Forgot to post this here yesterday. All the bells in Paris ringing in unison in memory of the victims of the #Paris attacks ten years ago.
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Forgot to post this here yesterday. All the bells in Paris ringing in unison in memory of the victims of the #Paris attacks ten years ago.
In memoriam. #ParisAttacks #13Novembre2015
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In memoriam. #ParisAttacks #13Novembre2015
France is commemorating today the 10th anniversary of the Paris attacks of November 2015. Here is how it enfolded hour by hour👇
(via @LeParisien_75 )
(via @LeParisien_75 )
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
France is commemorating today the 10th anniversary of the Paris attacks of November 2015. Here is how it enfolded hour by hour👇
(via @LeParisien_75 )
(via @LeParisien_75 )
On a year of secret negotiations to free the great novelist Boualem Sansal : in @LEXPRESS tomorrow.
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
On a year of secret negotiations to free the great novelist Boualem Sansal : in @LEXPRESS tomorrow.
leparisien.fr/politique/la... The great French-Algerian novelist #BoualemSansal finally freed, via @le_Parisien
Boualem Sansal libéré, Alger « accepte » de gracier l’écrivain franco-algérien
Arrêté en 2024, l’auteur avait été condamné en appel à cinq ans de réclusion pour avoir notamment déclaré que l’Algérie avait hérité sous la
leparisien.fr
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
leparisien.fr/politique/la... The great French-Algerian novelist #BoualemSansal finally freed, via @le_Parisien
Reposted by Agnes C. Poirier
"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last." n.pr/3WOLsWT
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last."
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last." n.pr/3WOLsWT
In which I write about the beauty of Saint Malo in Autumn👇 www.ft.com/content/9235...
Swap Paris and Rome for one of these alternative autumn city breaks
From Regensburg to Modica, these autumn getaways offer culture, cuisine — and none of the crowds
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
In which I write about the beauty of Saint Malo in Autumn👇 www.ft.com/content/9235...
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Call me contrarian but this (very critical) review of the Goncourt winning « La Maison Vide » is very funny. And rings true.
www.lexpress.fr/culture/livr...
www.lexpress.fr/culture/livr...
"La Maison vide", de Laurent Mauvignier, est-il le chef-d’œuvre de la rentrée ? L'avis très tranché de notre critique
Déjà vendu à plus de 60 000 exemplaires, ce livre est un des succès de la rentrée. Il a pourtant laissé une impression désagréable à notre critique, tant l’auteur y dénigre ses malheureux aïeux...
www.lexpress.fr
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Call me contrarian but this (very critical) review of the Goncourt winning « La Maison Vide » is very funny. And rings true.
www.lexpress.fr/culture/livr...
www.lexpress.fr/culture/livr...
Bloody hell! The #MoulinRouge owner wants to destroy both the homes (now small museums) of poets #JacquesPrévert and #BorisVian which are open to the public and have been preserved by their respective families since their death.
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Moulin Rouge forces closure of famed screenwriter’s Paris flat
The preserved Montmartre property, home to Jacques Prévert in the 1950s, is shuttered as the cabaret venue plans to convert the building into a music hall
www.thetimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Bloody hell! The #MoulinRouge owner wants to destroy both the homes (now small museums) of poets #JacquesPrévert and #BorisVian which are open to the public and have been preserved by their respective families since their death.
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
It is official, two of the four Louvre thieves have been arrested. The details here 👇 Cambriolage au Louvre : ce que l’on sait après l’interpellation de deux suspects lepoint.fr/tiny/1-2601781 #Société via @LePoint
Cambriolage au Louvre : ce que l’on sait après l’interpellation de deux suspects
Deux suspects ont été interpellés puis placés en garde à vue, samedi soir, dans le cadre de l’enquête sur le cambriolage du Louvre, qui a entraîné la disparition de huit bijoux royaux.
lepoint.fr
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It is official, two of the four Louvre thieves have been arrested. The details here 👇 Cambriolage au Louvre : ce que l’on sait après l’interpellation de deux suspects lepoint.fr/tiny/1-2601781 #Société via @LePoint
The new spot for a selfie in Paris is .... Yes, there, at the Louvre, just at the corner where four schmucks used a ladder and then stole our Crown's jewels.
www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/cam...
www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/cam...
Cambriolage au Louvre : « La fenêtre la plus célèbre du monde », nouvelle attraction touristique de Paris
Une semaine après le cambriolage du célèbre musée parisien, et alors que l’enquête se poursuit, la fenêtre par laquelle sont passés les malf
www.leparisien.fr
October 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The new spot for a selfie in Paris is .... Yes, there, at the Louvre, just at the corner where four schmucks used a ladder and then stole our Crown's jewels.
www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/cam...
www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/cam...
"The guards did not try to intervene to stop them"
(They followed instructions to lead visitors to safety).
🤨
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
(They followed instructions to lead visitors to safety).
🤨
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
How the Louvre museum heist unfolded
The Louvre robbery: Which French crown jewels were stolen — and how did it happen?
www.thetimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
"The guards did not try to intervene to stop them"
(They followed instructions to lead visitors to safety).
🤨
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
(They followed instructions to lead visitors to safety).
🤨
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Only 51% of French people want new elections today (they were 66% a fortnight ago). Sébastien Lecornu is doing well, or not that badly. #France
October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Only 51% of French people want new elections today (they were 66% a fortnight ago). Sébastien Lecornu is doing well, or not that badly. #France
We French love our history teachers – Samuel Paty made us remember why
In Memoriam #SamuelPaty
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In Memoriam #SamuelPaty
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We French love our history teachers – Samuel Paty made us remember why | Agnès Poirier
Religion struck another blow against freedom of thought with the vicious murder of a man whose mission was to civilise
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We French love our history teachers – Samuel Paty made us remember why
In Memoriam #SamuelPaty
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In Memoriam #SamuelPaty
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Very interesting article 👇
"Three plans were on the table: one put forward by Egypt; another by Blair and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law; and a third by France and Saudi Arabia. Aspects of all three plans eventually fed into Trump’s peace plan."
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
"Three plans were on the table: one put forward by Egypt; another by Blair and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law; and a third by France and Saudi Arabia. Aspects of all three plans eventually fed into Trump’s peace plan."
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
How important was the UK to the Gaza peace deal?
Sir Keir Starmer’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell was involved in talks that led to the Good Friday agreement, which bears similarities with Trump’s 20-point peace plan
www.thetimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Very interesting article 👇
"Three plans were on the table: one put forward by Egypt; another by Blair and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law; and a third by France and Saudi Arabia. Aspects of all three plans eventually fed into Trump’s peace plan."
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
"Three plans were on the table: one put forward by Egypt; another by Blair and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law; and a third by France and Saudi Arabia. Aspects of all three plans eventually fed into Trump’s peace plan."
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This man will sleep in prison from next Tuesday (21 October)
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This man will sleep in prison from next Tuesday (21 October)
October 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM