Nicolas Girard

For Toshitsugu Saito · 15d ago

Read about him once in a book on Japanese postwar politics, the chapter on the Defense Agency reshuffle in 2000. Barely two pages, but it stuck.

For Kalev Mutond · 18d ago

My mother called from Lyon to tell me, she used to watch the Congolese news bulletins and always remembered his name from the ANR years. Eight years running that agency is not nothing.

For Jenisa Marie Garland · 20d ago

My mother called me here in Lisbon to tell me this, she still watches Grey's Anatomy reruns and saw the post from Washington. A year had already passed since she died and nobody knew. That part stayed with me more than anything else.

For Chief Taoridi Faronbi (Baba Alado) · 28d ago

Read about this man for the first time today. Eighties, it says.

For René Aphing Kouassi · 29d ago

"Éminent serviteur de l'État, il aura consacré sa vie entière au service de la Nation." That's it really.

For Kōichi Watanabe · 17 Sept 2026

My mother called to tell me, she still lives in Sorachi and used to go to his dental clinic before he was ever a mayor.

For Natalia Danilova · 17 Sept 2026

My mother called as soon as she saw it and just said her name, nothing else. I only know her from a clip that gets passed around online, some scene from The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed. Never seen the whole film but my mother has watched it more times than she can count.

For Jean-François Leroy · 3 Sept 2026

Perpignan in September was the calendar mark for anyone who cared about real journalism. He made it that. Forty years of holding the line.

For Jerome Smith · 31 Aug 2026

I read about him in the Times piece last week. A drum major who became a Freedom Rider who became a mentor to children. That's a life.