It all started in 1960 when two French families with furniture shops and then they had the idea to franchise,” Martin Gleize tells host Dennis Scully on the latest episode of The Business of Home Podcast the company is internationally known for its chic contemporary design and has 265 showrooms across the world the families took inspiration from the luxury French fashion houses and focused on creating a strong brand as a foundation for business growth “An abstract name that would define style didn’t really exist [in furniture and design] back then,” says Gleize Roche Bobois advertised outside of the furniture world focusing on fashion magazines like Elle and newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post Roche Bobois does not design or manufacture its pieces in-house instead collaborating with outside designers and relying on a network of factories and workshops to make its product (its hits include the iconic Mah Jong and Bubble sofas) This approach has strengths and weaknesses but it unquestionably gives the company the freedom to focus on its brand-building and stores “There is a divide between the manufacturing world and the distribution world like the left brain and right brain,” explains Gleize “What I’ve experienced is you cannot do both things You cannot be a wholesaler and a retailer—it just doesn’t add up Gleize discusses the confusion of the post-Covid landscape and how he hopes future technology will change the showroom experience Crucial insight: Unlike many of its competitors in high-end furniture Roche Bobois does the bulk of its advertising directly to the consumer “We have always dedicated our energy to talk and to give everything we can in terms of clarity service and quality to the end user,” says Gleize “We try to build enough desire in the brand so that they will make it one of the names they want in their house.” This episode is sponsored by Loloi and Annie Selke. Listen to the show below. If you like what you hear, subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify This episode is sponsored by Kohler and Klafs. Listen to the show below. If you like what you hear, subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Issues with signing in? Click here Need help signing in? The move comes as movement around the secondaries advisory world has slowed after a series of relocations over the past year Your email address is already registered with us. Don't have an account? A verification email is on its way to you. Please check your spam or junk folder just in case. Not for publication, email or dissemination We use cookies to personalize content and ads, and to analyze our traffic and improve our service. Noura Wedell I'd like to begin with a question about context—the way you conceive of what's possible for writing today and, more generally, the role of intellectuals. I think Andrea Fraser's text, "There's No Place Like Home," is eye-opening in this regard. In it, she discusses the economic inequalities underlying the boom in prices of a certain art world, and the widening gap between the material conditions of art and its symbolic systems. I'm interested in the contradictions that plague educational and cultural institutions. If writing is fundamentally linked to this context, how can we react to its crumbling? How do you write in a situation of crisis? There might be two moments to this question: the first in relation to our contemporary context, and the second concerning a structuring moment for your political imaginary—that is, 1968. Jean-Marie Gleize Can I answer somewhat in disorder? I mean, not in an ordered and consecutive way, but freely, through a series of touches, as I go get some orange juice in between? As the post-Pongian I am, I don't know if I should consider poets and artists as intellectuals. Not necessarily. They do other things, which of course has to do with the current crisis and the feeling of trying to change the context, to act, directly and indirectly, on this global atmosphere and the more or less asphyxiating constructions that surround us. NW When you say that Francis Ponge did not consider poets and artists as intellectuals, what do you mean exactly? NW Right. Ponge calls for a "refounding of logical industry," that is, a renewal of categories of representation through process, fragmentation, the inscription of the body in writing. Your own work continues this refounding, through montage, the use of a variety of media, a way you have of borrowing from a constellation of writers and artists. The current or river of your poetic lineage continues through a series of poets of your own generation—Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, Emmanuel Hocquard, Denis Roche—and some younger than you are—Nathalie Quintane, Christophe Tarkos—as well as the writers you've connected around the journal Nioques. If you'd like, this is a question about quoting and friendship. NW I'd like to add to this constellation of influences the importance of literalism and the index in the visual arts, starting with minimalism and conceptualism. And then of course there is the proliferation of images in the media, but also via cinema and video. Can you speak to this a little? JMG Yes, this writing attempts to situate itself in an objectivist and literal movement, documental and dispositival [from dispositif: apparatus or technique] as well. I could add here to the names of the younger generation you've cited, those of Christophe Hanna and Olivier Quintyn, whose contributions and theoretical-critical inventiveness are for me fundamental. Again, the question of the image and of images at the heart of my writing practice is marked by a strong ambivalence and powerful contradictory pressures against a base of certainty. We cannot escape analogy. We live and work within walls of images, inside and in front of them, against and with screenic reality, and we must answer to this condition. NW In addition to your books, you've had a very long practice of teaching, establishing filiations without the hierarchy of age or knowledge. I feel lucky to have been one of your students. For me, that meant friendship, protection against institutional violence as much as your power within the institution allowed, and also the invitation and encouragement to write. What is important for you in this? NW In response to this asphyxiation you are talking about—the bankruptcy of institutions, contradictions in the cultural field, the rise of the extreme right, and so forth—there is the possibility of gestures of anonymity, poverty, retreat, or exile. Do you agree with these modes of action? How does your response differ from what the people from Tarnac are trying to do? JMG The unpublished sequel to Tarnac, a Preparatory Act, is called The Book of Cabins. A formula returns throughout the book: “Yes, we live in your ruins, but.” Everything is in that “but” and in the place we give these ruins, their ruins, in our texts and in the other practical work that we do. NW The notion of poverty you develop in the book could be understood in a positive way—as a refusal of consumption, a way to emancipation through the reduction of needs, and also the nakedness that allows for greater possibilities and depths of experience. It opens onto a form of ethics that escapes productivism and spectacle. Where does the notion come from for you and why do you invoke it? Could you also speak a little about the word communist? JMG In Tarnac there is an axis that concerns my personal history—Tarnac as a place where I spent my childhood—and an axis that relates to an objective history—Tarnac as the place where a left-libertarian community was established. The primitive Franciscan utopia of poverty, wild community, and cabins belongs to my personal context. My grandfather was a Franciscan “tertiary,” an order filled with legends of Saint Francis speaking to the birds. NW Tarnac is subtitled “a preparatory act.” What does this refer to, for you and for the French police? JMG Yes, the space of Tarnac is composed of titled spaces and sequences that are like the different spaces that compose Tarnac the village. As the map reproduced in the book shows, Tarnac is the central node of a swarm of villages or hamlets that are all connected to each other by roads, country lanes, and paths. It is a pulverized space, the dust of places, localities with given names, sentences, motifs, nakedness, dust, the tree, the river, lines, paragraphs, photographs, and so on. Clearly this composition, through de-composition, also carries with it the history of a re-composition, the ground base of that hidden story of a possible insurrection, the revolutionary question. NW To finish—and I'm not sure you will agree to this—I was wondering if you could elaborate a bit on this revolutionary question? Located in Château-Arnoux Saint-Auban, a village bordering the Durance river in the Alpes de Haute Provence, La Bonne Étape is a temple of fine dining. This gastronomic restaurant is a master of the art of haute cuisine in all simplicity. Michelin-starred Chef Jany Gleize is committed to offering culinary delights and cookery classes instilled with pleasure all round… Une publication partagée par Jany Gleize (@janygleize) le 5 Mai 2019 à 5 :36 PDT Une publication partagée par Jany Gleize (@janygleize) le 9 Sept – 1 teaspoon fine lavender seeds (from herbalists or certain pharmacies) – 1 teaspoon dried hibiscus flowers – 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar or sherry vinegar « Add a drop of wine vinegar just before serving and your dish will burst with flavour You can also use all kinds of seasonal fruit: figs quinces and apples marry deliciously with partridge don’t let the lavender infuse too long in the partridge juices – it can easily become overpowering A subtle note is a wonderful accompaniment to partridge but if it tastes as though you’ve swallowed a bar of soap Cookery classes at La Bonne Étape are a lesson in togetherness It’s not only Jany Gleize’s cuisine that exudes generosity – he is actually like that in real life « Being present in the moment and attentive to my budding chefs makes every class unique We work hand in hand and I’m there to give them my tips and tricks the theme and the produce they want to honour What people love is the spontaneity and open-mindedness that allows us to go where we want The classes are always very friendly and I love handing down my little cooking secrets It's time to refresh your memory on what the biggest personnel moves in the secondaries market were this year Please check your spam or junk folder just in case The American Legion National Headquarters: 700 N. 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According to the United Nations a million people had yet to find a place to settle by 1951 more than five years after the fighting stopped The despair and urgency of Europe’s contemporary humanitarian plight has been powerfully communicated through photography and that was no less true during the Second World War These are just a few images that help convey the impact and scope of the post-war refugee crisis Reading"Meet the French illustrator..." More fromWork Contact Advertising Opportunities Newsletters Insights + Opinion Creatives + Projects Advice + Resources Culture + Lifestyle Nicer Tuesdays The View From... POV Forward Thinking Review of the Year Jenny Brewer Olivia Hingley Ellis Tree Elizabeth Goodspeed Liz Gorny Extra Search a hilariously absurd alternate universe where dogs can be sleazy flashers in plastic rain macs breathing Sylvester Stallone-esque toupees gingerbread men bathe in cups of hot chocolate and sausages are everywhere Thibaut’s vision brings together his impressive technical ability as a graphic designer and illustrator with the artist’s surreal humour derived from influences as diverse as anthropomorphisation and food And with dolphins swimming in charcoal BBQs We caught up with Thibault to hear a little more Further Infowww.thiabutgleize.com Bryony Stone Bryony joined It's Nice That as Deputy Editor in August 2016 She later became Acting Editor at It's Nice That Fancy a bit of It's Nice That in your inbox Sign up to our newsletters and we'll keep you in the loop with everything good going on in the creative world Instagram TikTok LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Pinterest About Careers at It’s Nice That Privacy Policy Insights Residence Creative Lives in Progress If You Could Jobs © It’s Nice That 2024 · Nice Face Logo © It’s Nice That www.thiabutgleize.com Welcome to the twisted world of Bordeaux-based designer Thibaut Gleize so what led you to illustration and graphic design?\nDrawing and my creative side as a child… My interest for illustration has grown thanks to my infographics experience and the combination of all this led me to drawing the way I do today Tell me a little about your process — how do you go about producing your illustrations?\nI keep a notebook with all kind of ideas and I wonder how I could turn them into something funny unconventional drawing — the final idea will only catch my attention if it is funny and absurd I place a lot of importance on the composition and impact of my drawings The french gallery Sergeant Paper wrote [about my work] “Beasts look like men It sounds better in french — we use the same word to say beast and stupid — but I think it sums up my process pretty well Why do your illustrations focus so heavily on these part-animal part-human monsters?\nHumour is very central in my work I think it is funny to give human postures to animals But it is also a way of making fun of humans the animals look more intelligent than the human characters I try to create an impression of a situation caught by mistake as if the characters were saying “What am I doing here?” At the same time I want them to look happy and amused by the situation What inspires your work?\nI grew up in the ‘90s and I take my inspiration from the pop culture of the time — ads and mostly movies — the kind that could not be directed nowadays because it glorified a sort of flashy capitalism It was aesthetically interesting because of its opulence: too much I draw in that fake happiness an ironic vision of the world Finally (we had to ask…): If you were an animal They do nothing all day and smile all the time physicality-led practice reminds its audience of the person behind the piece In the newest instalment of his illustrated series Brian Blomerth explores the life of John C Lilly – the scientist that used ketamine to speak to dolphins Aysha Tengiz received a questionable contract asking her to give up rights to her own intellectual property the illustrator explains why that’s such dodgy practice and why creatives need to be more clued up about copyright Cofounded in 2022 by food industry creatives Cake Zine is back with its sixth issue: Daily Bread About Contact Advertising Opportunities Newsletters Insights + Opinion Creatives + Projects Advice + Resources Culture + Lifestyle Nicer Tuesdays The View From... POV Forward Thinking Review of the Year Jenny Brewer Olivia Hingley Ellis Tree Elizabeth Goodspeed Liz Gorny Instagram TikTok LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Pinterest Careers at It’s Nice That Privacy Policy Insights Residence Creative Lives in Progress If You Could Jobs Three medieval graves in southern France may hold the remains of three Muslim men Several clues provide hints about the graves' occupants Not only are the individuals' faces oriented toward Mecca but the shape of the grave is reminiscent of other Muslim burials If the individuals were indeed Muslim, these graves would be the earliest Muslim burials on record in France, the researchers said. [Images of a Medieval Mass Burial in Paris] "It's a new insight on the knowledge of settlement of French territory," said study co-lead researcher Yves Gleize an archaeologist and anthropologist at the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research and the University of Bordeaux we'll find other Muslim burials to [help pinpoint] the Muslim occupation in the south of France." "We knew that during the early Middle Ages in France there were a lot of scattered graves in [the] countryside," Gleize told Live Science in an email "But I was very surprised when I looked at the position of the skeleton in three of these graves." Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox Gleize knew of Muslim graves at Montpellier and Marseille dating to the 12th and 13th centuries But radiocarbon dating showed that the newfound graves are even older dating to between the seventh and ninth centuries Historical records indicate that there was a Muslim presence in France during the early Middle Ages After discovering the graves, Gleize and his colleagues studied the funerary practices analyzed the individuals' DNA and determined their sex and approximate ages The analyses indicated that the men — adults ranging from about 30 to older than 50 years old — were Muslim The bodies (buried on their right sides) and faces (which are oriented southeast) point toward Mecca a design feature common among Muslim graves These clues suggest that the three men were Berbers a group of North Africans who integrated with the Arab religion and armies during the early Middle Ages It's likely these men were part of the Umayyad army the force that conquered southwest Europe beginning in the eighth century we cannot assert that they were born in North Africa but their presence in [the] south of France is surely linked with the presence of Berbers in the Arab army," Gleize said Though the graves suggest that Muslims lived in southern France during the Middle Ages Gleize said he and his colleagues "don't know about the type of contact [they had] with the local population," he said "[But] one of the skeletons was surely more than 50 years old," he added "It's possible that he lived several years at Nimes before he died." The findings were detailed online Feb. 24 in the journal PLOS ONE Hårby Valkyrie: A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword, shield and ponytail Archaeologists discover hundreds of metal objects up to 3,400 years old on mysterious volcanic hilltop in Hungary People really can communicate with just their eyes, study finds By continuing to use this website, you agree to the use of cookies in order to offer you content and services that are tailored to your interests. uses 10 LudwigHooks to release panelized joists with the company’s custom lifting frame OTH Pioneer Rigging said it has “reached a milestone of 600 remote controlled LudwigHooks at work just two years after introducing the hooks to North America.” and was built to withstand harsh outdoor environments without needing to be charged at the end of each work day The hooks have been implemented by 130 users in 40 states across a variety of industries including steel erection crews that have implemented LudwigHooks are eliminating 150 hours each year simply by cutting the time it takes to release the load this translates to $1,900 per week and users typically see a return on the investment in 10 weeks,” said Oliver Gleize The LudwigHooks were designed by a logger in Germany and were known for being compact “When I decided to bring the lifting solution to North America in 2021 my business partner and I went on a 10,000-mile tour across the country with a truck and trailer to demonstrate the benefits of using a quick release hook,” said Gleize “We had the opportunity to meet business owners and field personnel that were looking for a new and efficient way of doing everyday tasks and the response we got was incredible,” said Gleize The hooks work in more than 30 different lifting applications one individual LudwigHook has a working load limit of 4,400 pounds and one XL hook is rated for 11,600 pounds They can be used in a choker configuration with wire ropes or nylon slings we are proud to have our hooks being used on jobsites across North America,” said Gleize “We started from nothing just two years ago but now our goal is to have 10,000 hooks in use by 2030.” serving North America and headquartered in Montreal offers quick release hooks for ironworkers Archaeological and genetic analysis may indicate that three skeletons buried in medieval graves in France may have been Muslim according to a study published February 24 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Yves Gleize from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) and University of Bordeaux Fanny Mendisco from University of Bordeaux The rapid Arab-Islamic conquest during the early Middle Ages led to major political and cultural changes in the Mediterranean Although the early medieval Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula is well documented scientists have less evidence of the Muslim expansion north of the Pyrenees The authors of this study aimed to determine if the skeletons in three graves from a medieval site at Nimes France are related to the Muslim presence in France in the 8th century they analyzed the funerary practices at the site and determined the sex and age of the skeletons The authors found that the burials appear to follow Islamic rites including the position of the body and the head orientation towards mecca They also found genetic evidence indicating their paternal lineage may show North African ancestry Radiocarbon dating shows that the skeletons were likely from the 7th-9th centuries the authors propose that the skeletons from the Nimes burials belonged to Berbers integrated into the Umayyad army during the Arab expansion in North Africa in the 8th century Despite the low number of Muslim graves discovered the authors believe that these observations provide some of the first archeological and anthropological evidence for Muslim communities in the South of France anthropological and genetic analysis of three early medieval graves at Nimes provides evidence of burials linked with Muslim occupation during the 8th c In your coverage please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148583 (2016) Early Medieval Muslim Graves in France: First Archaeological Anthropological and Palaeogenomic Evidence Funding: This study benefitted from excavation grant support from the city of Nîmes The paleogenomic analyses were made possible by funding from the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; PEPS APEGE) and from the Research National Agency as a program of prospects investments ANR-10-LABX-52 (CAP project; dir 10.1371/journal.pone.0148583 are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system Copyright © 2025 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) In the face of the near-total domination of the world film market by mass-produced American entertainment independent European cinema continues to flourish at a level of artistic ambition not seen since the 1970s but on another it's an entirely logical response to the global tyranny of Hollywood For a young filmmaker like Delphine Gleize the 30-year-old French writer and director of "Carnage" (which opens this week in New York) Her debut feature is impressively large in scale and despite casting a relatively cold eye on both life and death offers its interconnected cast of characters a surprising measure of redemption by the end But in other ways it doesn't resemble the commercial movies most Americans see at all I realize this might sound like a snobbish thing to say but if your idea of what a film is came exclusively from watching "Seabiscuit" and "Chicago" and "Gladiator," you might find it almost impossible to understand "Carnage." It's as if it had been made not just in a foreign language but also on another planet (Olivier Assayas' forthcoming "Demonlover" offers an especially disturbing example.) But "Carnage" is more delicate and whimsical and also more metaphysical and perhaps spiritual albeit one where death plays a central role Isn't that a reasonable definition of life itself "Carnage" will also remind some viewers of Alejandro González Iñárritu's equally memorable "Amores Perros," in that it perceives a pattern that seems to link all life (and all death) together a pattern no single individual enmeshed in it can perceive But the two films have strikingly different tones; "Carnage" never feels harsh or cruel even when characters we care about come to unpredictable ends after all.) Maybe a more important connection between them is their enormous shared debt to Luis Buñuel who looks more and more like the patron saint of today's new generation of cinema revolutionaries Gleize seems to emerge from a realm where directors who remain virtually unknown in the U.S. and the only American filmmakers anybody has heard of (It's no accident that the two female stars of "Carnage" are Angela Molina wiry beauty was displayed in Buñuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire," and Chiara Mastroianni the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.) But the fact that Gleize's influences are clear does nothing to diminish her startling talent for composition -- this is a wide-screen film and should be seen that way -- the breadth of her vision and the distinctive blend of tenderness and hardness that marks her immediately as an important new director the bull has gored the handsome young bullfighter who kills it leaving him clinging to life in the hospital awaiting a liver transplant that seems unlikely to come As the brave beast heads for the abattoir on the back of a truck a woman named Alicia (Molina) and her adult daughter Jeanne (Lucia Sanchez) get stuck behind it in traffic They consider the animal's fate and Jeanne jokes and she's right; "Carnage" is a long way from "Lovely Bones"-style treacle where the dead watch over the living from some plush anteroom of paradise But Alicia and Jeanne will never know quite how much this vanquished animal will change their lives Jeanne teaches kindergarten in the north of France where her most troublesome student is a strange little girl named Winnie (Raphaëlle Molinier) who suffers from epileptic fits and insists on drawing pictures in which people are much smaller than animals This might be a textual reference to the 1,000-pound bull -- Jeanne has no way of knowing that Winnie watched the fatal bullfight on TV -- but there's also a more obvious explanation perhaps the best of them is the fact that when we see Winnie at home we learn that the closest thing she has to a sibling is a friendly dog named Fred a Great Dane who is perhaps twice her size Winnie's parents buy a bone for Fred from a lovelorn Italian actress named Carlotta (Chiara Mastroianni) who is playing a Carmen-esque Spanish temptress in a supermarket promotion -- and of course it's one of the bull's bones The animal's eyes are sent to a Belgian medical researcher named Jacques (Jacques Gamblin) and is about to get an extraordinary surprise Jacques is also somehow connected to an impoverished rural taxidermist named Luc (Bernard Sens) who lives in a trailer with his elderly mother and has wound up with the dead bull's horns That's without explaining the suicidal ice-skating philosopher (Clovis Cornillac) who makes random phone calls to strangers and asks for "Brigitte" -- on one of them he talks to Betty -- and who has fallen in love with Carlotta Or the deaf-mute man who turns out to be somebody's long-lost father Or the New Age rebirthing class in a swimming pool Or the three bozos who show up at the hospital to visit the comatose bullfighter and only end up quarreling among themselves the multiple scenes that involve people wrestling on the floor or discussions of who is and is not a human being and what that means Gleize's tremendous compositional sense and instinctive sense of pacing combine to make a long film full of leisurely shots feel tightly constructed she's able to draw an air of gravity from even the silliest coincidences like the shopping-cart collision that eventually links Carlotta and the philosopher to Winnie and Fred like a TV interview with a man who has stuffed and mounted his mother's head plenty of viewers -- maybe most -- won't have the patience for a movie like "Carnage." 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between Germanic tribes and the well-organized forces of a new political superpower known as Islam archaeologists have discovered the first evidence that Muslims lived in Nimes during this early phase in Islamic expansion across North Africa and Europe Three newly discovered graves—the oldest Muslim graves in France—hint at what life was like in a medieval city whose residents were a mix of Christians from Rome A team of French archaeologists describe the three graves in an article in PLoS One explaining that they were found in an area that was once enclosed by a Roman-style wall from the days when Nimes was a key outpost in Septimania on the western borders of the Roman Empire Taken by the Visigoths in the fifth century the city remained under that tribe's control in a region called Narbonne until the early seventh century as the Umayyad Caliphate army worked its way north Though there were great battles during this time, far more common were migrations of people swept up by the cultural changes caused by shifting empires. As the Medieval POC art history project has been documenting for years there were many people from Africa and the Middle East in Europe Nimes appears to have been a place where people from all over the world came to live The three Muslims buried at Nimes were given the same treatment as other members of the community at least in terms of where their graves were located so most people just buried their dead outside town The Muslim graves were close enough to the town center that the archaeologists believe these were not isolated or shunned people—indeed they appear to have been three men who died of natural causes who were buried by a community familiar with Islamic tradition All three bodies were interred lying on their right sides their bodies placed in niches dug into the right side of the grave itself directly in a trench that was lined and topped with stones taken from the Roman wall (this is the middle figure in the photo at the top of this article) Not only are these two burial practices still common today among Muslims but similar kinds of burials have been found in medieval Muslim communities in Spain None of the skeletons show any signs of combat trauma and their bodies seem to have been treated with respect after death The researchers point out that these graves confirm what had been only known from historical writings about the period Muslim writers such as the anonymous author of the Chronicle of Moissac describe a city called Niwmshû or Namûshû where there was a Muslim presence in the mid-eighth century governor of a region called Al-Andalus that later became part of Spain along with carbon dates of the bones in the graves the researchers surmise that the individuals were soldiers who may have settled in Nimes after Anbasa's victory Bolstering this interpretation is genetic analysis of the bones which suggests that the soldiers had parentage hailing from North Africa Many North African Berbers were converted to Islam during this time joining the Caliphate's armies and spreading into Spain In 752 the Visigoths took back Nimes from Anbasa and handed the city off to a guy named Pepin the Short It appears that during the tumultuous late seventh and early eighth centuries this area was a relatively calm oasis at the edge of the battles between the Caliphate's imperial troops and European tribal peoples who were uniting into kingdoms these graves "support the complexity of the relationship between communities during this period which cannot be summarized in a simple opposition between Christians and Muslims." People from many cultures lived and died in Nimes leaving behind hints of what medieval diversity might have been like PLoS One, 2016. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148583 When the Battle of the Bulge raged across Belgium and Luxembourg in late 1944 and early 1945 it scarred a beautiful landscape and forever changed the people who lived there During the seven decades that have passed since then the ghosts of the fallen have haunted those forests leaving powerful memories that remain fresh to this day The fighting that unfolded there during 45 days of combat has not been forgotten despite the fact that fields are harvested The many memorials that dot the 1,250 square miles/804,360 acres of this battlefield are reminders of its violent past grocery stores and fast food restaurants adjacent to sites where young American and German soldiers shivered in the deep cold but you will also find museums that present their stories to the 21st century Those museums combine individual accounts with big-picture context in compelling ways for both specialists and those learning about the battle for the first time the Ardennes is a unique place of pilgrimage you can walk in the footsteps of American fighting men who battled their way across frozen ground in the bleak mid-winter against a vicious enemy who still had lots of fight left in him For anyone interested particularly in the firearms used during the Battle of the Bulge a handful of museums located in Luxembourg and Belgium display artifacts that you will never see anywhere else Because this epic battle rolled across countryside inhabited by civilians pistols and machine guns left behind afterward were occasionally deposited in barns and tool sheds creating a sort of time capsule of the winter of 1944-1945 One such museum is the relatively new Baugnez '44 Historical Center in southern Belgium which houses outstanding displays featuring firearms and the accessories that go with them an MP40 and every variation of magazine pouch the Germans made for them an MG34 sits on its maschinengewehrlafette recoil buffered mounting system in a glass case that allows you to see both sides of the machine gun A video monitor above the display plays a German MG34 training film that demonstrates the proper methods for loading changing barrels and clearing stuck cartridge cases but few are as engaging or evocative as this one Click here for a "Guns of the Battle of the Bulge" Photo Gallery Just outside of the museum is the Baugnez crossroads-a place that is now infamous because of what happened here on the second day of the battle Panzer Division's Kampfgruppe Peiper gunned-down 86 prisoners from the U.S Army's 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion Although the massacre occurred in a field at the Baugnez crossroads it has always been associated with the name of the larger city just two miles to the northwest: Malmedy A memorial listing the names of all of the victims of this atrocity is just across the street from the field where the crime was committed The fact that nothing has ever been or ever will be built on that soil is a haunting tribute to the men whose lives ended there that fateful day prisoners were executed in several other towns and villages during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge the infamous "Malmedy Massacre" is unforgettably etched into the historical memory of World War II and few places present a more powerful reminder of the sacrifice the United States of America made during that battle Just 15 miles to the west of Baugnez is another museum one that tells the story of what eventually became of the German force responsible for the Malmedy Massacre Kampfgruppe Peiper reached the village of Stavelot only to find stubborn American defenders there Seeking a spot to get their vehicles across the Amblève River Peiper's force then proceeded to the town of Trois Ponts where retreating U.S Army combat engineers had already destroyed both bridges over the Amblève there The Germans then pushed on to the town of La Gleize where they struggled against several U.S one of which was the battle-hardened 30th Infantry Division displays a number of artifacts left behind on the battlefield by troops from that division and one will impress anyone interested in M1 Garand service rifle you can buy an M1 in the U.S.-they are abundant and still somewhat affordable-but any Garand available in the States will most likely have been rebuilt and modified Although parts of it may have fought one of World War II's many battles you will not necessarily know which one(s) But at Musée December 1944 you can see an unmodified Springfield M1 Garand that was used in La Gleize by a U.S Army soldier from the 30th Division during its struggle against the Peiper's task force from the 1st S.S Although we do not know that soldier's last name or his serial number we do know that he went by the nickname "Scottie" because he carefully carved those letters into the rifle's stock "as built" M1 rifle like "Scottie" is a rare enough commodity in and of itself but one that has direct provenance connecting it to a specific World War II battle is priceless In an exhibit case just a few feet away from "Scottie" is another personalized U.S service rifle that is sure to attract the attention of any gun collector or firearm enthusiast: a Remington M1903A4 sniper rifle with "W Faucett" carved into the wood of the right side of the stock forward of the front barrel band Complete with its original M73B1/Weaver 330C 2.5X scope this rifle was found between Stoumont and Targnon-an area that was the scene of desperate fighting as Kampfgruppe Peiper attempted to follow the Amblève toward the town of Remouchamps where more bridges offered river crossings that might still make it possible to reach the Meuse River bridges at Liège Peiper could not make headway against the stubborn U.S units that stood in his way beyond Stoumont he was forced to escape on foot with 800 of his men after abandoning 135 vehicles in the fields around La Gleize Faucett's M1903A4 are certainly impressive and noteworthy artifacts the most striking artifact on display at Musée December 1944 is the one that greets you when you round the bend in the road leading into La Gleize armored monster was under the command of Obersturmführer Helmut Dollinger on Dec when it was disabled and abandoned at the Werimont farm just outside of town after a sharp engagement with vehicles from the U.S It's not every day that you get to see a King Tiger 213 may be the most memorable thing to see at a museum packed full of interesting things Just 28 miles to the south of La Gleize is another historical display featuring some of the guns that fought the Battle of the Bulge In a former Belgian Army barracks complex on the outskirts of the crossroads town of Bastogne a group of determined volunteers has created an engaging exhibit in the same building where one of the most famous moments of the battle happened three divisions from the German XLVII (47th) Panzer Corps had surrounded 10,000 American troops in a perimeter around the city The following day the German Corps Commander General der Panzertruppe Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz sent a note through the lines demanding the surrender of American forces in Bastogne threatening to "annihilate" them should they refuse he replied succinctly: "To the German Commander McAuliffe issued this well-known response because the entire building has been transformed into a museum The volunteers responsible for this have also contributed artifacts from their personal collections to the display many of which were found during relic-hunting expeditions around the area spare machine gun barrels and en bloc clips-literally piles M3 submachine gun alongside the item that provided its nickname-a "grease gun" from an auto shop Although the Christmas holiday was tense for the U.S George Patton's 4th Armored Division reached the perimeter around the city resistance had prevented a critically important crossroads from falling into German hands and an important turning point in the Battle of the Bulge had been reached For 70 years now the successful defense of Bastogne during that week-long siege has cast a long shadow over our collective memory of the Battle of the Bulge While it makes perfect sense for this inspiring moment of American fighting spirit to shine so brightly the ill-fated stand of the 28th Infantry Division should be remembered with at least equal billing Each of the German divisions that participated in the encirclement of Bastogne had to first move across northern Luxembourg to get there "the quiet paradise for weary troops," but that changed on Saturday the 5th Panzer Armee crossed the Our River slammed into the greatly outnumbered maneuver battalions of the 28th Division and turned the northern half of Luxembourg into a raging battlefield Although these German units ultimately overwhelmed the Americans it was only after a delay of three days-a delay that made it possible to reinforce the city of Bastogne Army units that stood and fought in Luxembourg made a critical contribution to the outcome of the battle Luxembourg's role in the Battle of the Bulge is presented in Musée Nationale d'Histoire Militaire-the National Museum of Military History in the city of Diekirch the story of occupation and liberation is told in the halls of an old brewery using traditional displays as well as the most impressive 1:1 scale dioramas you will ever see The exhibits in this museum feature photographs and a truly exceptional collection of 20th century martial firearms The guns populating the mannequin dioramas include multiple examples of just about every type and variation that armed Allied and Axis troops during World War II But in addition to displaying its gun collection in the context of full-scale immersive environments the museum also includes "room 15" on the second floor land mines and ammunition measuring more than 900 sq.-ft and it is sure to amaze anyone interested in the small arms that fought World War II Practically every small arm you can imagine is represented here: from the FP-45 "Liberator" pistol to the Fallschirmjägergewehr 42 select-fire battle rifle Musée Nationale d'Histoire Militaire covers two centuries of the history of l'Armée Luxembourgeoise (Luxembourg's Armed Forces) so all of the obsolete military firearms no longer in active service have been deposited there This has created not just one of the largest collections of World War II firearms in Europe but also a uniquely interesting collection of military guns from the 1950s and 1960s While a few examples of such guns are on display in the museum's exhibits galleries the rest are stored in a vault in the basement This basement armory is not open to the public so very few people have a chance to inspect the items stored there But during a recent visit to Diekirch American Rifleman Television personnel were given a tour of this part of the facility The guns of the Battle of the Bulge are present in great numbers in the vault at Musée Nationale d'Histoire Militaire and the site of it all can be overwhelming The vault's wall racks also hold MP40 submachine guns and several dozen MP44 Sturmgewehr assault rifles Very few museum collections curate as many of the most famous infantry weapons of World War II and that is something that makes the quiet little community of Diekirch worth a visit millions of tourists travel to other countries just to drink wine Firearm enthusiasts and collectors travel abroad the museums dedicated to the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium and Luxembourg represent a fulfilling destination Long respected for its world-leading military small arms through its American factory and engineers shooters—and the new Concealed Carry 9 mm Luger micro pistol is poised to quicken it Read today's "The Armed Citizen" entry for real stories of law-abiding citizens Despite a slight decline in demand for new firearms the industry’s economic impact rose from $90.5 billion in 2023 to $91.7 billion in 2024 Kahr Arms has been most well-known for its single-stack line of concealed-carry pistols the company is moving into the double-stack market with its new Premium X Series Henry's Special Products Division has officially released its first line of unique offerings in its HUSH series of suppressor-ready lever-action rifles Built primarily from thick 6061 aircraft-grade aluminum is an incredibly robust and stable gun rest designed for use with pistols and long guns alike Skeletons in three graves in southern France are believed to date from the eighth century Archaeologists working in southern France have identified three graves that are believed to represent the oldest Muslim burials ever found in Europe The skeletons at medieval site at Nîmes were found facing Mecca and a genetic analysis showed their paternal lineage was North African Furthermore, radiocarbon dating shows the bones likely date from the seventh to ninth centuries, suggesting they came from the Muslim conquests of Europe during that period we propose that the skeletons from the Nîmes burials belonged to Berbers integrated into the Umayyad army during the Arab expansion in North Africa,” said the study The findings add a new dimension to knowledge about the era which had been limited to history books and rare bits of archeological data “We knew that Muslims came to France in the eighth century but until now we did not have any material evidence of their passage,” Yves Gleize an anthropologist with the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research and lead author of the study The graves were first discovered in 2006 near a major roadway in Nîmes as construction workers were digging an underground parking garage A careful analysis in the years since has shown that the men were all laid on their sides according to traditional Muslim burial rites another in his 30s and the third was older than 50 Their bones showed no sign of injury in combat Another Muslim grave site has been found in Marseimulle One found in Montpellier may date to the 12th century A French woman says she is facing an administrative nightmare to win the right to work as a physiotherapist in France despite qualifying and working in the role for two years in New Zealand France will not allow Catherine Le Gourvenec-Gleize-Bourras to practise because it does not recognise her non-European degree - from the University of Auckland - a situation she says is “abhorrent” in the face of the medical deserts and a scarcity of physiotherapists in France based on practical application rather than learning information by heart to be “100 times better” than the Belgian or French equivalent. she completed a second physiotherapy degree in Belgium at the cost of around €10,000 or €12,000 - but is still unable to practise This is because she ‘only’ has 400 hours of internship hours with her Belgian diploma although she has completed 1,200 hours in New Zealand and 400 in Qatar. two and a half years after arriving in France of being officially recognised thanks to support from local residents she said: “around 70 patients have medical prescriptions and need to see a physio but cannot.” there are 3,000 people with no easy access to a physio I have two separate diplomas and I am being told that I need to wait for four months to find out if I can be recognised.” Read more: French ‘medical deserts’: Mayor’s plea over lack of rural GPs I would have returned to New Zealand in a heartbeat.” “It comes down to either the administration being intentionally irritating or extremely ignorant of the urgency of the situation.” She originally left France with her husband She first worked in a physiotherapy office in Qatar she studied - and qualified - to be a physiotherapist. The family decided to relocate back to France after the Covid pandemic Mrs Le Gourvenec-Gleize-Bourras had to spend 18 months with her two young daughters but without her husband he was not a resident of New Zealand and therefore could not return due to border restrictions linked to Covid-19. they decided to buy a home in rural France moving to the north of Lot (Occitanie) where they bought two houses: one ready to move into and one that needed renovation which they converted into an office for her physio practice. The nearest physiotherapist office is 16 kilometres away and has a waiting list for new clients When applying for her physiotherapist licence she was told her degree was not recognised in France Ireland and Switzerland to name a few countries, Not wanting to spend another two years studying which would have been the case at a French university she turned to the university of Liège in Belgium which allowed her to complete her degree in just a year She then applied to the Ordre des masseurs-kinésithérapeutes (the national order of physiotherapists) with her European diploma she was told that her application was not successful due to the internship hours and she is still unable to practise “This is not just a problem for physiotherapy Read more: Seven questions about ‘medical deserts’ in France a Polish doctor who are also trying to have their degrees recognised but are unable to This means that we do not have a doctor within 10 kilometres of our town The centre Enic-Naric France, which is part of a European network of Enic-Naric centres, is the organisation that deals with the recognition of foreign diplomas in France and helping individuals getting their degree recognised. You can find out more information here. 15% of cases thought to have been contracted overseas including from the UK Major strike action is planned in protest over new healthcare bill did some absolutely nutso training rides on Tuesday who fractured his wrist at Liège–Bastogne–Liège But he definitely kept his fitness riding on the rollers Meanwhjle Evenepoel is ramping up for the Tour de Suisse. Having left the Giro d’Italia early due to testing positive for COVID-19, the Belgian has rearranged his racing season. He posted about a “personalized Liège-Bastogne-Liège” on Strava. A post shared by Remco Evenepoel (@remco.ev) Get the digital edition of Canadian Cycling Magazine Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" a sofa you can play around with like Lego blocks and armchairs in gravity-defying shapes These are only some of the pieces you'll find at the luxury French furniture brand Roche Bobois' new flagship showroom in Mumbai Spread over an area of 5,000 sq ft at the iconic India Bulls Finance Center the impressive store located in the city centre has been designed to allow customers a first-hand opportunity to experience the French art de vivre "There is a worldwide luxury consensus Beijing…they all tend to like the same codes in luxury," says Martin Gleize when asked about how the brand plans to tailor its mix for the Indian market "The discerning lifestyle buyer recognizes what is beautiful and what is not." says the eventual plan is to launch five stores in five different cities within five years Roche Bobois retails its high-end furniture design in almost 50 countries it opens one store a month somewhere in the world The Mumbai showroom comes close on the heels of stores in Singapore and Stuttgart The French furniture brand offers exclusive "haute couture" designs for its two main collections: Les Contemporains and Nouveaux Classiques Both collections are renewed twice a year and include collaborations with top designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier Many of these creative friendships have resulted in a number of best-sellers for the company One of the most notable is the Lounge sofa the forerunner of the now iconic Mah Jong modular sofa a revolutionary concept designed by Hans Hopfer in 1971 which still remains one of the most distinctive and highly desired pieces in the brand's portfolio today Gleize tells Vogue three products we shouldn't miss: This all-time favourite was designed by the German designer Hans Hopfer more than 40 years ago "It's iconic," reiterates Gleize It is a modular composition of hand-made padded cushions You can treat the cushions as building blocks and move them around even transforming the sofa into a daybed if you so wish The Mah Jong sofa is a symbol of innovation In keeping with Roche Bobois' interest in creative collaborations Missoni and Emanuel Ungaro have been invited to 'dress' the sofa The Mumbai store presently houses the Missoni version If you own the Astrolab dining table by Roche Bobois that will actually be an occasion to rejoice The Astrolab dining table is a mechanized table that has the ability to extend an extra foot or two But here's the cool quotient: it features a see-through glass top that showcases the gears moving in action as the additional glass panels slide outwards from either end Gleize shares that it's a nod to the European tradition of fine watchmaking This over-engineered extending glass table is sure to outshine any meal This modern floor lamp is a part of the Les Contemporains collection from Roche Bobois A bulbous murano glass lamp shade is strung over a walnut wooden structure The lamp's cable is wound around the wooden structure in a fisherman's knot The lamp is available in two colours: white or cherry red Bring it home and you won't have to fish for compliments The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.