PARIS — It sounded like an April Fool’s joke. A French town toppling a bust of Marianne, the symbolic heroine of the French Revolution, because she was too … buxom? In a country where breasts have ...
A French mayor is set to remove an iconic statue of a woman symbolising France from his town hall - because she is black. The statue of Marianne features in thousands of public buildings in France as ...
France's prime minister has been accused of being a sexist 'cretin' after saying that bare breasts were a glorious representation of his troubled country. In a clumsy speech about national identity, ...
France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls has provoked an uproar in his country by citing Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic—and her bare breast—as justification for the ban of full-body swimsuits ...
The mayor of a town in France has ignited a race row over plans to remove a statue of a black woman because it is "not a symbol of the Republic". Mayor Marcel Allegre, who was elected in March 2014, ...
The statue of Liberty is bare-breasted at the Marianne monument in Paris Prime Minister Manuel Valls has upset political rivals and historians by invoking the symbol of the French republic, Marianne, ...
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