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Josephine de La Bruyère
Josephine de La Bruyère is a writer living in Rome.
Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Make French Wine Anymore?
Half of French winemakers will retire in the next 10 years. And there are not enough young people willing to replace them.
July 28, 2025
Josephine de La Bruyère

What Dead Birds Have to Do with the End of Europe
Throughout Europe, cratering birth rates and an accelerating brain drain are converging into a demographic crisis. You can see it now in the dying…
July 15, 2025
Josephine de La Bruyère

Tourists, Tailors, and the Holy Spirit Descend on Vatican City
‘They are made cardinal, then they get fat,’ said the Vatican’s tailor. ‘I have to take their cassocks out, take their sashes out.’
April 27, 2025
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