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Detail of engraved wood and metal on an old shotgun, illustrative photograph.Culture · Nov 8, 2026In Niederfeulen, Philippe Graff’s patient craft as a gunsmithIn Niederfeulen, Philippe Graff devotes hundreds of hours to bespoke hunting guns. His career sheds light on a rare manual craft and the framework in which it is practised.Jane Austen’s house in Chawton, a red-brick building in Hampshire, illustrative photograph.Books · Nov 8, 2026In Sense and Sensibility, love also runs up against moneyIn Jane Austen’s novel, the contrast between Elinor and Marianne is not simply reason versus passion: inheritance, money and economic dependence also shape their choices.The Pont des Arts and the Institut de France in Paris, in an autochrome from June 1923.Books · Nov 1, 2026“Le Rappel des oiseaux”: entering Sébastien Lapaque’s award-winning novelThe 2026 Grand Prix du roman goes to Sébastien Lapaque. Based on the available extract, a way into his story: childhood, inheritance and attentiveness to the living world.Painted portrait of Edgar Quinet by Sébastien-Melchior Cornu, around 1835Culture · Oct 28, 2026Merlin between emancipation and order: Quinet versus EvolaA 1984 archive made available again by France Culture sets two political uses of Merlin against each other: Edgar Quinet’s republican emancipation and Julius Evola’s hierarchical order.Archive portrait of Robert Guédiguian in October 2011.Cinema · Oct 28, 2026Une femme aujourd’hui: Guédiguian links the personal to collective historyReleased in France on 21 October, the film puts Marilou Aussilloux at the centre of a story of rebuilding. Robert Guédiguian’s intentions shed light on the project.Mountainous landscape on the Tibetan Plateau beneath a blue sky.Basic science · Oct 27, 2026Ancient DNA: how encounters contributed to our adaptationFrom the Tibetan Plateau to Oceania, researchers are studying the effects of variants inherited from Denisovans. Finding a trace and demonstrating its function are two distinct steps.