Hélène de Lauzun is the Paris correspondent for The European Conservative. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. She taught French literature and civilization at Harvard and received a Ph.D. in History from the Sorbonne. She is the author of Histoire de l’Autriche (Perrin, 2021).
How To Prevent an ‘Undesirable’ European Presidency: A Report

How To Prevent an ‘Undesirable’ European Presidency: A Report

The manifestly anti-democratic nature of such a decision, and the exclusion of tens of millions of European citizens who would thus be deprived of their country’s six-month presidency, is not even raised in the Meijers Committee report. 

Activists Spread Pro-Life Stickers on Paris Free-Floating Bikes

Activists Spread Pro-Life Stickers on Paris Free-Floating Bikes

The advertising campaign was daring and illegal, but fully endorsed by the organisation that wants another voice to be heard on the matter of life defence in the public sphere.

French Bill To End ‘Woke’ Rewrites

French Bill To End ‘Woke’ Rewrites

MP Thiériot, who proposed the bill, believes that decisions to rewrite were made because of “pressure from the ‘wokist’ movement and ‘cancel culture.’”

Les Républicains To Propose Ambitious Anti-Immigration Plan

Les Républicains To Propose Ambitious Anti-Immigration Plan

Les Républicains wants to appear to be in tune with the state of French public opinion, which demands rigour and firmness in the management of immigration.

France Unveils Its Climate Plan for Greenhouse Gas

France Unveils Its Climate Plan for Greenhouse Gas

In order to accelerate the ecological transition, Elisabeth Borne highlighted the necessary distribution of the effort between the state, individuals, and companies.

Tribute to French Historian Dominique Venner Banned in Paris

Tribute to French Historian Dominique Venner Banned in Paris

Since 1881, the idea of preventing future crimes by censoring ideas or events were supposed to have disappeared from French law—but the cancellation of the commemoration proves it is still very much alive.

Attendance at Traditional Pilgrimage of Chartres Breaks Records

Attendance at Traditional Pilgrimage of Chartres Breaks Records

Despite the restrictions imposed on traditional liturgy by the Vatican, attendance has never been so high, forcing the organisers to close the registrations.

Former President Sarkozy Sentenced To Jail

Former President Sarkozy Sentenced To Jail

The Sarkozy affair gives an extremely degraded image of French justice, but also of French political life.

Meloni and Pope Francis Agree Birth Rate Must Grow

Meloni and Pope Francis Agree Birth Rate Must Grow

For Meloni, the problem is not only financial but ideological. This observation is shared by Pope Francis, who also denounced “a culture that is unfriendly, if not an enemy, of the family.”

The Plague of Inclusive Writing

The Plague of Inclusive Writing

Instead of adopting inclusive writing, we might consider learning a language without gendered grammar, like Hungarian—or Farsi—as options.

Labour Party Looking To Extend Voting Rights to EU Citizens

Labour Party Looking To Extend Voting Rights to EU Citizens

For Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, it would be perfectly normal to extend the authorisation of voting to general elections for European citizens: just “common sense,” according to his own terms.

UK To Relax Rules for Housing Asylum Seekers

UK To Relax Rules for Housing Asylum Seekers

Today, more than 50,000 asylum seekers are being housed in hotels across the country at an estimated cost of £6 million a day.