French-Armenian Relations: Past and Present
Between Paris and Yerevan, the declarations of friendship abound. But rare are those who evoke the failures of this friendship. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Franco-Armenian affinity?
Tigran Yegavian has a Masters in Comparative Politics from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and a BA in Arabic from the Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO). He is a freelance journalist and researcher at the French Intelligence Research Center (CF2R). He works in particular on Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking world, the Armenian diaspora and the Christian diasporas of the East. His last published book is "Minorities of the Orient, the Forgotten Ones of History" (translated into Armenian in 2020, Actualt Art editions).
Between Paris and Yerevan, the declarations of friendship abound. But rare are those who evoke the failures of this friendship. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Franco-Armenian affinity?
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