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Catherine Nicholson

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Covers:  The geographical area of Europe: politics, security, society; France-Europe relations; the EU’s “neighbourhood” and partner countries such as Georgia.
🇪🇺 European politics specialist | Europe Editor at France 24 2017-23 | British & Parisian 🫖🥐 Tweets: mine, RTs: not.

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French, German and English-speaking journalist, specialising in European Affairs. Based in Paris, for France’s international news network France 24 since 2009.

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France's Europe minister: 'Chequers plan would threaten functioning of EU' - France 24

France's Europe minister: 'Chequers plan would threaten functioning of EU' - France 24

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Rare or Not? | David Van Edwards, Catherine Nicholson

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By Catherine Nicholson, David Van Edwards
| Soundings from The New York Review
Skip to Content In response to: A Most Particular Life from the March 26, 2026 issue To the Editors: Catherine Nicholson has written a wonderful account of Beloved Son Felix [“A Most Particular Life,” NYR, March 26], evidently a wonderful book, which I look forward to reading in full. But as a kind of autobiography it is not quite such a rare undertaking in the Renaissance as she implies.
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A Most Particular Life | Catherine Nicholson

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By Catherine Nicholson
| Soundings from The New York Review
On the morning of October 10, 1552, a fifteen-year-old boy named Felix left the city of Basel, on the Rhine River, to study medicine at the university in Montpellier, some 330 miles away. He was the only son, and only surviving child, of a Swiss German schoolmaster and his wife. At his departure his father gave him seven gold coins, two fresh shirts, some clean handkerchiefs, and a lecture on the virtue of hard work. His mother gave him an additional gold coin and a tearful hug.
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Book Review: ‘The Boundless Deep,’ by Richard Holmes

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By Catherine Nicholson
| The New York Times Verified
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. A Tragedy, and the Poetic Masterpiece it Inspired. In “The Boundless Deep,” Richard Holmes explores the forces that formed the young Alfred Tennyson. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, pictured here in 1857, would become synonymous with Victorian respectability. But it wasn’t always the case. Credit...John Jabez Edwin Mayall/The J.
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