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Photo: © Studio lost but found/VISDA Event website Irina Dumitrescu Claudia Tobin Michael Prodger Tim Smith-Laing Apollo This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker We don’t flood you with panic-inducing headlines or race to be first We focus on being useful to you — breaking down the news in ways that inform We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today Three people were killed at the Notre Dame Basilica by Alex Ward Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi told reporters he believes the attack was perpetrated by an Islamist extremist. “He cried ‘Allah Akbar!’ over and over, even after he was injured” by police, Estrosi said. (“Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” is a common expression used by Muslims especially during prayers.) “The meaning of his gesture left no doubt,” Estrosi added The suspect is now in custody and has been hospitalized the French embassy in Riyadh said in a statement In response to the Nice attack and the other incidents, the French government raised the nation’s security alert to its highest level and increased the number of troops protecting schools and religious sites from 3,000 to 7,000 issued a stark message: “I say this with the outmost clarity — we will not give in to terrorism.” Leaders in several Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, have condemned the Nice attack. “Under no circumstances are these attacks justifiable,” Egypt’s highest religious authority, Al-Azhar, said in a tweet calling them “inconsistent with the tolerant teachings of Islam and all divine religions.” Police found a Twitter account suspected of belonging to Paty’s attacker that featured a picture of the severed head along with a message: “I have executed one of the dogs from hell who dared to put Muhammad down.” Macron’s government turned Paty into a freedom-of-expression hero At a national memorial for the slain teacher last week Macron said France “will continue the fight for freedom” and “intensify” efforts to end Islamist extremism in the country He also said France would continue to back anyone who wanted to display cartoons of Muhammad, noting his nation’s deep culture of secularism. Macron’s goal, as he describes it, is to create an “Islam of France” that aims to seamlessly integrate Muslims into French society French police raided numerous homes across the country as part of its probe into Paty’s killing About 15 people have been taken into custody and 51 Islamic organizations are under investigation The aftermath of Paty’s killing has rekindled a contentious debate in France about how to balance freedom of expression with respect for a religion The Nice attack will only add fuel to the fire and block this discussion,” said Charles Thépaut a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Estrosi, Nice’s mayor, has already called for a harsher government response “It is now time for France to exempt itself of peacetime laws to permanently annihilate Islamo-facism from our territory.” ntribute today from as little as $3. Understand the world with a daily explainer plus the most compelling stories of the day, compiled by news editor Sean Collins. 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Located in thirteen sites in the heart of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region the INRAE Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur centre focuses its research on issues specific to the Mediterranean region: agroecology and adaptation of agriculture and forests to climate change The INRAE Provence-Alpes-Côte d´Azur research centre is the fourth largest of INRAE' 18 centres with a consolidated budget of €71 million including €14 million in autonomous resources including 710 permanent staff members located on 12 sites: Avignon Sophia-Antipolis and Aix-en-Provence le Tholonet and nine other sites including Aix-en-Provence Arbois Email: contact-paca@inrae.fr Siège : 147 rue de l'Université 75338 Paris Cedex 07 - tél. : +33(0)1 42 75 90 00 A man who was shot dead by police in the French city of Avignon after accosting passers-by is suspected of belonging to an anti-Muslim, far-right group, local media reported on Friday. The suspect was killed on Thursday just after 11 a.m. (1000GMT) in the southern city’s Montfavet district. He had been seen wielding a handgun in the street, and reportedly threatened a North African shopkeeper. Police approached and requested the man drop his weapon, employing a flash-ball shot to subdue him. The officers fired on the suspect when he failed to comply. Initial reports on Thursday in local and international media falsely claimed that the suspect was an “Islamist” who shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) in the street. Police sources told French daily Le Figaro that the suspect had been undergoing psychiatric treatment and was believed to be a member of the far-right group Generation Identitaire. However, prosecutors ruled out terrorism as a possible motive. Generation Identitaire is the French branch of anti-migrant, xenophobic group Generation Identity, which has attracted young people through social media, exploiting fears over refugees and terrorism. Its leading members have propagated white supremacist ideas and anti-Muslim and racist conspiracy theories. According to local media reports, the 33-year-old suspect was wearing a neo-Nazi jacket with a "Defend Europe" logo. Thursday saw two other terror incidents in French territory, as well as one overseas, the latest in a string of violence to grip the country over the last few months. A brutal attack took place Thursday morning in Nice with the fatal stabbing of two women and one man at the Basilica of Notre Dame de l'Assumption. One of the women was beheaded. Police arrested the assailant, who remains in hospital with gunshot wounds. At the scene of the attack, President Emmanuel Macron called the incident "an Islamist terrorist attack." Leaders of the Muslim community in France have condemned the recent terror attacks, stressing that extremists abuse religion for their goals and their actions cannot be justified through Islam. Also on Thursday, another man wielding a knife was arrested in Lyon near the Perrache railway station. Another man attacked a security guard with a knife at the French Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, causing injuries. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation, and Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday placed France at an emergency level anti-terrorism alert. Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. It comes on same day three are killed at church in Nice I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice A man has been shot dead by police after threatening people with a handgun in a city in southern France The man was shot dead in Montfavet, a district in the city of Avignon A police official told The Independent the attacker said he was from the far-right Mouvance Identitaire He was killed after he refused to drop his weapon and a flash-ball shot failed to stop him a police official told The Associated Press French media reports had initially suggested he had shouted “Allahu akbar” The man appeared to be wearing a jacket displaying a “Defend Europe” logo, which refers to a string of anti-refugee operations by the Generation Identity group which is called Génération identitaire in France spreads a conspiracy claiming that white people are being “replaced” and calls for the “remigration” of Muslims from the continent who massacred 51 victims at mosques in New Zealand last year used the name of Generation Identity’s core ideology as the title of his manifesto It later emerged that he had donated money to the group and exchanged friendly emails with Austrian leader Martin Sellner Sellner posted a photo of the Avignon attacker’s body on his channel on the encrypted messaging service Telegram “People are now claiming that he is ‘part of the Identitarian Movement’,” Sellner wrote “He was wearing a jacket from the [Generation Identity] shop that was freely available online.” who was banned from entering the UK on security grounds in 2018 suggested the man was mentally ill and “incoherent” In a statement released on Thursday evening Generation Identity denied the man was a member of its French faction “The man was neither a participant in the 2018 action in the Alps nor a member,” said a statement “The Identitarian Movement has always distanced itself from terror and violence and follows the principle of non-violent activism.” Senior members of Generation Identity’s French branch were jailed last year over parts of Defend Europe mission and authorities have previously considered a ban on the group On the same day as the gunman was shot dead in Avignon a man was arrested after attacking and injuring a guard at the French consulate in Jeddah Also on Thursday, three people were killed in a church in Nice whose mayor has described the knife attack as terrorism Their throats were cut and one other person was injured a police spokesperson told The Independent The French prime minister said the country's threat level would be raised to its maximum following the Nice attack and the anti-terrorist prosecutor's department said it had been asked to investigate Thursday’s attacks come just two weeks after the killing of French teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded outside a school near Paris. Mr Paty was targeted because he had shown students Charlie Hebdo cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad during a class on free expression. The Afghan Taliban released a statement on Sunday attacking Emmanuel Macron’s response to the murder of Mr Paty. The terrorist group accused the French president of making “irresponsible remarks against Islam” and “assuming a stance that threatens international peace and inflames enmity and animosity among nations”. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies Dr Dermot Walsh examines the life of French sculptor Camille Claudel who died in the Montdevergues Asylum at Montfavet near Avignon in 1943 and discusses how psychiatric care in France evolved and modernised away from the asylum system Camille Claudel was born in Fère-en-Tardenois in the Aisne in North East France but the family moved shortly afterwards to the former presbytery of the very small village of Villeneuve-sur-Fère where she spent her early childhood and went to the local school Then the family undertook a series of moves to other nearby locations and ultimately to Paris in 1871 From early on, Camille had been fascinated by organic materials such as stone and earth, including the massive rock formation at the Hottée du Diable near Villeneuve which she used to visit with brother Paul often at night when the moonlight threw fantastic shadows on the rocks She made her mind up that she wanted to become an artist but as at that time women were not accepted in the École des Beaux Arts in Paris she undertook an apprenticeship with sculptor Alfred Boucher at the Academie Colarossi When Boucher left for Florence he entrusted his pupils to August Rodin already famous for his sculptures and his workshop Camille moved there and began a relationship based on her outstanding abilities as a sculptor and his role as her confidant and source of inspiration — and ultimately her lover At first she and Rodin worked collaboratively, often on the same sculptures. Rodin found in her a muse and she protection and emulation in him. She became a major artist in her own right and, as a review of a recent exhibition of her work in Roubaix by 1893 she was no longer in Rodin’s shadow but had developed her own distinctive style By now the close ties with Rodin were being severed by reason of his returning to his lifelong female companion The trauma and bitterness this evoked in Camille was evident in some of her major works displayed in the Paris Salon of 1899 such as a large female form tattered and torn By 1905 it was clear that she was becoming mentally ill She broke up many of her works and often went missing Her jealousy increased and as time went on this translated into delusional thinking of a paranoid nature concerning Rodin who she alleged was stealing her ideas and plotting to kill her By now her creativity as an artist had largely evaporated but she was supported by her father who had never her brother Paul had her committed to the asylum of Ville-Everard in Neuilly-sur-Marne Her certificate of admission described her as suffering from “systematic persecution delirium based on false interpretations and imaginations” were evacuated to Montdevergues Asylum at Montfavet near Avignon She died there in October 1943 and was buried in a communal unmarked plot in the asylum cemetery dramatist and poet of strong Catholic disposition Among his works is the play L’annonce faite à Marie He visited Camille in the asylum just five times in 30 years; her sister Louise visited once and her mother never As the acute symptoms of her illness subsided the asylum physicians The fading of her genius and its tragic aftermath are said to have inspired Hendrik Ibsen’s play When We Dead Awaken and her story was twice filmed with Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu in the roles of herself and Rodin (in separate films) Her sculptures are on exhibition in the prestigious Musée Rodin in Paris and in a museum devote to her work at Nogent-sur-Seine it is worth describing how the former asylums in which Camille was a patient and how psychiatric care in France has evolved and modernised The Centre Hospitalier de Montfavet is now part of the psychiatric services of the catchment area of the Vaucluse and the north of the Bouches-du-Rhône The hospital at Monfavet has a wide spread of specialised services including those for children forensic psychiatry and for intellectual disability These are provided on site by 1,312 beds in total — 517 24-hour beds and 795 day beds There are 15 mental health centres and day hospitals throughout the catchment area where Vincent van Gogh was once hospitalised liaison and ED psychiatric services are supplied to the five general hospitals in the area The Etablissement Psychiatrique Ville-Everard is situated in the North East of Paris and its surroundings The service covers 33 communes in the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis divided into 15 sectors for adult psychiatry and three for infant-juvenile psychiatry (CAMHS) In 1970 there were 2,000 beds on the principal site at Neuilly-sur-Marne Today there are 400 acute full-time beds in the catchment one-third at Neuilly with the remainder at three different population centres in the catchment Throughout the catchment there are mental health centres day hospitals and part-time beds together with domiciliary care and liaison and ED services to local general hospitals Underlying the initiation and development of modern French psychiatry has been a commitment to community care and the run down of the large asylums This was set in motion by a decree of March 15 Cardinal to the community element was the principle of sectorisation — psychiatrie de secteur — of catchment areas into population sectors of about 70,000 each this mechanism was initiated in the Dublin area from 1961 onwards with the creation of several independent catchment areas of the disestablishment of the centralised St Brendan’s Tagged with: Auguse Rodin Camille Claudel Psychiatry A knife-wielding attacker beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist act at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday police killed a man who had threatened passersby with a handgun in Montfavet said there had been a “terrorist attack at the heart of the Notre-Dame basilica” He spoke of “Islamo-fascism” and said the suspect had “repeated endlessly ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is greatest)” Estrosi said the attack was similar to the beheading earlier this month near Paris of teacher Samuel Paty who had used cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics class came at a time of growing Muslim anger at France’s defence of the right to publish the cartoons and protesters have denounced France in street rallies in several Muslim-majority countries state television reported that a Saudi man had been arrested in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after attacking and injuring a guard at the French consulate there The French Embassy said he was in hospital after a knife attack and his life was not in danger Prime Minister Jean Castex raised France’s security alert to its highest level and said the government’s response would be firm and implacable President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Nice and is meeting police officers at the scene of the attack Anti-terror prosecutors have also opened a murder inquiry Easily access major global news with a strong focus on Africa we like to accentuate positive stories about Africa across all genres including Politics We broadcast 24 hours a day from our studios in London and New York and can be seen here in the UK and across Europe on the Sky platform (Sky channel 516) Freeview (Channel 136) as well as in the USA on the Centric channel and also on the Hot bird platform © 2023 Arise News - Part of the Arise Media Group Mireille Mathieu is a French singer who has a net worth of $100 million. Mireille Mathieu has recorded over 1,200 songs in 11 different languages since her debut in the 1960s. Following her breakthrough concert at the Paris Olympia in 1965, she became one of the most popular singers in France and all of Europe with her Édith Piaf-style chanson tunes and pop standards Although her popularity waned over the ensuing decades Mathieu has continued recording albums and performing live well into the 21st century The family lived in poverty for a long time until they moved into a subsidized house in 1954 to a large tenement in the Croix des Oiseaux Mathieu did poorly in school due to her dyslexia and the abuse of her teachers Mathieu worked at a local factory in Montfavet she became a youth counselor at a summer camp alongside two of her sisters (Photo by Arthur Grimm/United Archives via Getty Images) Mathieu regularly entered an annual singing contest in Avignon she won the contest in 1964 by singing the classic Édith Piaf tune "La Vie en rose." For her win Mathieu was awarded a free trip to Paris and a pre-audition for the televised amateur talent show "Jeu de la Chance." Not long after that Mathieu ended up winning "Jeu de la Chance" by defeating five-time winner Georgette Lemaire Mathieu has continued touring and recording albums since her breakout in the 1960s She also created her own publishing companies Mathieu held sold-out concerts in Paris and became one of only a few Western performers at that time to hold a concert in China "Oui je crois," with co-author Jacqueline Cartier With her popularity having waned significantly by the early 1990s Mathieu attempted a comeback in 1993 with a pair of albums paying homage to Édith Piaf She continued releasing albums regularly in the 21st century and in late 2005 she held a 40th-anniversary celebration of her career at the Paris Olympia Mathieu later held a 50th-anniversary tour in 2015 Mathieu lived at the Roquefort-la-Bédoule villa of her manager Johnny Stark After Stark got divorced from his second wife in the 1980s and Mathieu subsequently took over his office Her sister Monique then became her new business manager Mathieu is known for being a relatively private person She does not have a publicist and rarely talks in detail about her personal life © 2025 Celebrity Net Worth / All Rights Reserved