The Return of l'Histoire
October 6, 2008 · Features, Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
Paris
French Political Commentator
Michel Gurfinkiel
11 articles 1996–2008
Michel Gurfinkiel is a French journalist, author, and commentator specializing in French politics, society, and European affairs. He contributed analysis and commentary to The Weekly Standard from 1996 to 2008, covering major developments in French political life including elections, social upheaval, and the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy. He is also known as a founding president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute and a prolific writer on geopolitics and Jewish affairs.
Sarkozy Starts Strong
July 9, 2007 · Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
Hyperpresident--that's what France's leading conservative newspaper, Le Figaro, called Nicolas Sarkozy two weeks ago. Around the same time, the liberal satirical weekly Le Canard enchaîné ran a cartoon featuring a pedalling machine under the president's desk. Caption: "He is even producing energy…
Liberté, Egalité . . .
May 21, 2007 · Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
Paris
A Battle Royal
February 26, 2007 · Features, Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
Paris
Another French Revolution?
November 27, 2006 · Features, Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
Paris
Can de Villepin Change His Spots?
June 7, 2004 · Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
Paris
Forgiveness for France?
April 21, 2003 · Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
Paris
A Beautiful Friendship?
October 28, 2002 · Features, Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
MODERN FRANCE'S love affair with Iraq was fleetingly foreshadowed in the year 803, when Harun ar-Rashid, legendary Abbassid caliph of Baghdad, sent an embassy to the equally famous emperor Charlemagne, ruler of the Franks. It seemed a promising beginning: The caliph's gifts to the emperor included…
Black October
October 30, 2000 · Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
Paris
Black October
October 30, 2000 · Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
ON THE RICHTER SCALE of anti-Semitism, France has just registered a major quake. From October 1 to October 18, in the space of just two and a half weeks, 6 synagogues were burned down and another 24 synagogues and Jewish schools were targets of attempted arson. Stones were thrown at people outside…
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND, MACHIAVELLIAN MONARCH
January 29, 1996 · Michel Gurfinkiel, Magazine
Anyone could see that Barbara Hendricks was not the best choice to sing Le temps des cerises at the Place de la Bastille in tribute to the late president of France, Franqois Mitterrand. The choice was poor not for political reasons, but because the singer was bound to perform in her usual operatic…