Interesting set of "France-in-a-nutshell"
pages i found while looking for mot de
Cambronne; here's a word (& an attitude)
we need: laicite'.

The Rats of Alpha Centauri.

Listening to: Dead Can Dance- Into the Labyrinth.

New French observations of Alpha Centauri
make it almost the same age as the Sun,
instead of a couple of billion years older
as previously thought.

Waiting for the Taikonauts.

You can find a David Hardy painting of "Proxima's
Planet" (which is now not thought to exist)*--here.
Clicking on his name leads to a small site for the
great space artist himself...

Clicking on this, however, takes you to a site
about "diapered furries", & if you have to ask,
you don't want to know.

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*but you can still sing the song. (How appropriate--
Black Metal about a Ghost Planet.)

A somewhat more lyrical picture of the star.

--Curiously, though the "planet" would have orbited at
about Venus's distance, because of the smaller mass of
Proxima its revolution period would be more like 600
days. [And if you reduce the mass of Proxima to
something like 8.9% of the Sun's--not at all an
unlikely number--it produces a revolution period of
666 days...]