Althouse: Paris.

October 18, 2026

Paris.

Galeries Lafayette in Paris is being looted tonight. It’s the French equivalent of Harrods in London or Bergdorf Goodman in NYC https://t.co/F5jZU4bswZ
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 17, 2026

84 comments:

Dagwood said...: Charles Martel must be rolling in his tomb.; 10/18/26, 10:16 AM
Old and slow said...: Rioting is great fun, that's why young people do it. The correct response is to take the fun out of it via swift and painful consequences.; 10/18/26, 10:16 AM
Jim said...: We’ll be ready for these school boys, they will wet themselves in blood.; 10/18/26, 10:17 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Bummer. Oh well.; 10/18/26, 10:17 AM
FullMoon said...: Social media makes it easy to organize.; 10/18/26, 10:19 AM
FullMoon said...: Lack of fear and lack of respect of law enforcement.; 10/18/26, 10:20 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: I get suspicious. Just like I got suspicious when the so-called BLM rioters were looting high-class stores in the USA in 2020. People should track where these goods are ending up at. I'd bet organized crime is involved.; 10/18/26, 10:20 AM
chickelit said...: Say, where is that American Pope? Behind walls.; 10/18/26, 10:21 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: these "rioters" who go to high class stores and steal, always seem to know what goods to take and what to leave.; 10/18/26, 10:21 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Kill the very society that made your life easy.
Idiot cruel leftism in a nutshell.; 10/18/26, 10:22 AM
Achilles said...: What are the greatest things in life?

To see your enemies defeated and driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

Maybe France can become part of Poland and they can run the foreign invaders out.; 10/18/26, 10:24 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: One disappointing thing when I went to Europe for the first time was seeing the same high class shops in London, Paris, Rome, etc. that you can see in SF or Manhattan. I naively thought things would be different. This one in France has a differnent name but the high class goods and clothes are all the same.; 10/18/26, 10:25 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Defund the Police helps.
Defund the Police is a universal leftist plan.; 10/18/26, 10:25 AM
PrimoStL said...: Well, at least they're not speaking German.; 10/18/26, 10:26 AM
Original Mike said...: Oh, it's organized.
And it's a crime.; 10/18/26, 10:27 AM
bagoh20 said...: France is holding a huge holiday sale all week. ~ The media.; 10/18/26, 10:28 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Leftist Rage Envy is sponsored by...
Neville Roy Singham; 10/18/26, 10:31 AM
Achilles said...: RCOCEAN II said...

I get suspicious. Just like I got suspicious when the so-called BLM rioters were looting high-class stores in the USA in 2020. People should track where these goods are ending up at. I'd bet organized crime is involved.

LOL!

It certainly isn't the red-green alliance between antifa and imported muslim invaders.

Nope it has to be organized crime...; 10/18/26, 10:32 AM
Lazarus said...: Is Bergdorf really the American equivalent?; 10/18/26, 10:33 AM
Paul Zrimsek said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/18/26, 10:34 AM
Dave Begley said...: Trending on X.

""I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you. I come from your future. In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream. Here’s what it looks like from the inside. . . .

Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them. The promise was protection. The result is stagnation. The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. . . . Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. . . . Trust me. You don’t want to be France."; 10/18/26, 10:34 AM
Paul Zrimsek said...: That place needs some armed Korean shopkeepers.; 10/18/26, 10:34 AM
chickelit said...: We won’t be able to save the French if we don’t save ourselves first.
I full expect our local RC Mencken to retort something about ‘Muricans.; 10/18/26, 10:40 AM
Maynard said...: It appears that Jewish shops are being attacked and Muslim ones are not. That doesn’t sound like organized crime, in the traditional sense.

Of course, that report could be propaganda. This is a war and the first casualty in war is the truth.; 10/18/26, 10:42 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: How absurd. When's the last time the USA "built a nuclear power plant"? We should be building a dozen. Are we?

France has a Debt-GDP which is LOWER than the USA. They spend 57 percent on Government. What is the USA, 41 Percent (State/Federal/Local) ? Big whoop.

And the difference is the French spent their money on health care and old age pensions and a safety net. We shovel our money into foreign wars, foreign aid, support for illegals, and big business. The french tax payers gets some benefit from his taxes. The USA one gets almost none.; 10/18/26, 10:43 AM
Dogma and Pony Show said...: "these 'rioters' who go to high class stores and steal, always seem to know what goods to take and what to leave."

Because it takes a criminal mastermind to read a price tag.; 10/18/26, 10:43 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Oh there's "stagnation" in France. LOL. yeah maybe they should import a 1 million Indian H-1Bs.; 10/18/26, 10:44 AM
James K said...: It's happening because the French government is allowing it to happen. They could stop it in about five minutes if they wanted to.

And this will likely be coming soon to a city near you. The only reason it might not is because we have the 2nd Amendment.; 10/18/26, 10:44 AM
Original Mike said...: Milan; 10/18/26, 10:45 AM
Peachy+2 said...: ot - a little-
I should not be laughing. but I am.; 10/18/26, 10:45 AM
bagoh20 said...: Ah Oh! France has no chance now. Trump just said "“Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!”.

They can't do it now. Trump killed their chances with one sentence.; 10/18/26, 10:46 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Because it takes a criminal mastermind to read a price tag.

Because high class stores have "price tags". LOL. Its not walmart - dumbo.; 10/18/26, 10:46 AM
Peachy+2 said...: The more ya learn about Karl Marx(D) - the more you learn he was just a fat lazy entitled mooch., with Elizabeth Warren ideas; 10/18/26, 10:49 AM
Peachy+2 said...: Reports do say the Jewish owned shops were targeted.
Indeed. RC Cola smiles.; 10/18/26, 10:49 AM
Achilles said...: RCOCEAN II said...

How absurd. When's the last time the USA "built a nuclear power plant"? We should be building a dozen. Are we?

France has a Debt-GDP which is LOWER than the USA. They spend 57 percent on Government. What is the USA, 41 Percent (State/Federal/Local) ? Big whoop.

And the difference is the French spent their money on health care and old age pensions and a safety net. We shovel our money into foreign wars, foreign aid, support for illegals, and big business. The french tax payers gets some benefit from his taxes. The USA one gets almost none.

LOL!

You should move to France. It sounds like... Utopia?; 10/18/26, 10:52 AM
rehajm said...: NFL to move their Paris game next we- haha!!!, who am I fooling, they'll probably let the rioters on the field...; 10/18/26, 10:54 AM
n.n said...: Cultural appropriation, immolation.; 10/18/26, 10:56 AM
Dave Begley said...: Can we all agree that, except for a few things related to race and sex discrimination, that the Left has made things worse?; 10/18/26, 10:57 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Are these the same students who were joining the protests against raising the pension age 2 years ago? Didn't they realize this would be at the expense of their education? And that they themselves will have to work much longer than retiring at 62?

Maybe the protestors should focus their ire on the pensioners and those parties who forced Macron to back down from raising the retirement age.; 10/18/26, 10:58 AM
loudogblog said...: This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
- T.S. Eliot; 10/18/26, 10:59 AM
Interested Bystander said...: The usual suspects.; 10/18/26, 11:05 AM
Mary Beth said...: Dior has hired their own security. That photo was from yesterday evening. I hope they are still holding out.; 10/18/26, 11:05 AM
Iman said...: And the tsunami of effluent continues with this Indefatigable Enema Exhibitions™️.

It’s as if France wasn’t subject to a state-sanctioned invasion.; 10/18/26, 11:08 AM
Smilin' Jack said...: “Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. . . . Trust me. You don’t want to be France."

Too late. The only question now is whether we should start learning Arabic or Chinese.; 10/18/26, 11:13 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Video: "French woman tried to stop a horde of Muslims by explaining to them that she voted for them to be able to enter the country and that she's on their side, while they laughed and stole everything in the store" link to video; 10/18/26, 11:14 AM
Hombre said...: “I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you. I come from your future. In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise.” Too late. If they could learn, they wouldn’t be voting for Democrats.; 10/18/26, 11:15 AM
Interested Bystander said...: " The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. . . . Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. . . . Trust me. You don’t want to be France."

It always sounds compassionate and generous. Generous with other people's money. The Marxists always tell us they want "the rich" to pay their fair share. They don't tell anyone that the top 5% in wealth pay most of the taxes. Half the people pay no income tax at all.

As I read the comment from the Frenchman above I thought of post war England. They went all in with Socialism. Nationalized airlines, railroads, auto makers, pretty much every industry. It ended in all the things the writer mentions. Stagnation, urban decay, more crime, more corruption. When will humanity ever learn the Utopianism has never worked and never will work. The word Utopia literally means nowhere. Because that is where Utopianism works. Nowhere.

I do go on but damn, why can't people ever learn from the mistakes of the past? Socialism, communism, collectivism. It's been tried. Get a history book. Learn about it.; 10/18/26, 11:16 AM
baghdadbob said...: Diversity is not their strength. Vive la difference!; 10/18/26, 11:17 AM
Hombre said...: RCOII: “And the difference is the French spent their money on health care and old age pensions and a safety net.”

Social Security and healthcare are the largest expenditures of US tax dollars.; 10/18/26, 11:21 AM
Paul said...: What did you expect? Like Biden and Pelosi they let illegals flood the country.. but, unlike Trump who deported them, the French cheese eating monkeys will do.. nothing.

Tough luck France... and UK. You did this to yourself and you disarmed the population so they cannot REVOLT!!!; 10/18/26, 11:27 AM
Mason G said...: Très vibrant. I bet the food trucks are outstanding.; 10/18/26, 11:27 AM
Dogma and Pony Show said...: Because it takes a criminal mastermind to read a price tag.

Because high class stores have "price tags". LOL. Its not walmart - dumbo.

I stand corrected. Let me rephrase: Because it takes a criminal mastermind to discern that the jewelry and watches in locked display cabinets in a high-end store may be worth stealing.; 10/18/26, 11:30 AM
Achilles said...: Is there a faster way to bring a nation to ruin than to invest all of your money into the older people rather than the next generation?

What did we get for our social security investment other than young people who can't afford to buy a house and have kids?; 10/18/26, 11:30 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: God, you know the type. They will always have the last word. Incredible. Anyway, here's my advice for trolls or bored little kids on the 'net.

1) Put the dumbest interpetation on someone's remark or
2) Comment on some minor point and pretend to misunderstand it.
3) Then play Gotcha!
4) When you get a reponse, never give up.; 10/18/26, 11:37 AM
Dogma and Pony Show said...: "It always sounds compassionate and generous. Generous with other people's money. The Marxists always tell us they want "the rich" to pay their fair share. "

The worst is when they try to make spending other people's money sound like a Christian imperative. If people want to take care of the poor and downtrodden, they can just do it . . . invite homeless people to stay in your home, for example. Forcing other people to act out your charitable impulses is not my idea of Christian sacrifice.; 10/18/26, 11:37 AM
Lucien said...: Shooting looters on sight is a good idea & should be universally adopted.; 10/18/26, 12:00 PM
Gospace said...: The same as Bergdof Goodman in NYC? So rapes and sexual assaults happen in the women's dressing room that no one hears and are unreported for years? Obviously an evil place that deserved to be looted!; 10/18/26, 12:06 PM
Iman said...: I’ve shed a tear and now I’m farting in their general direction.; 10/18/26, 12:15 PM
imTay said...: Obama started the war in Syria that flooded Europe with Muslim refugees, maybe he should have let these ruffians be Assad's problem, but you know who wanted Assad overthrown.

Obama destroyed the government in Libya, and released a second wave of angry refugees on Europe, instead of letting these ruffians be Qaddafi's problem. A funny quote from Qaddafi was that he was holding back the tide and protecting Europe.

If we manage to turn Iran into a destroyed state, without civil government, which is you know who's goal, let's see how many angry refugees that unleashes on the world.

So if you back these wars on the other side of the world to control oil and further Israel's ambitions for regional regiional military domination, kindly stop looking like an idiot and complaining about the consequences that follow for the West.; 10/18/26, 12:15 PM
imTay said...: https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/2016-08-30/1-day-40-boats-thousands-of-people-rescued-trying-to-get-to-europe; 10/18/26, 12:17 PM
imTay said...: What those who control the levers of power have done is pry the governments of Europe from the hands of their people, by election jiggery pokery, or judges who can't find a legal reason to overturn the election, like in Romania, fall back to a clause in their constitution that allows them to "vote their conscience.."

Macron engineered the election to thwart the will of the French people, and well, here we are. Macron is one of the most unpopular figures in European politics, somewhere around 10% approval, but he holds on to power with an iron grip.; 10/18/26, 12:21 PM
tcrosse said...: Liberty Leading the Looters; 10/18/26, 12:51 PM
Joe Bar said...: Suicidal empathy on display. They burned down the 143 year old town hall in Limoges:
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2111547284941132148; 10/18/26, 1:23 PM
William said...: French Jews are starting to see the bright side of Le Pen, and Le Pen members are starting to see the plus side of Jews. So, in a way, all this diversity has increased tolerance in France.; 10/18/26, 1:30 PM
Gospace said...: This is what imTay's link should have said- and warning- it's not actually a link: .
𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘱𝘴://𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘩𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰.𝘰𝘳𝘨/2016-08-30/1-𝘥𝘢𝘺-40-𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘴-𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴-𝘰𝘧-𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦-𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘦𝘥-𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘰-𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘥𝘦-𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦

Next question- why rescue people invading your nation?; 10/18/26, 1:31 PM
William said...: Compare Marie Antoinette's expenditures for jewels versus Napoleon's expenses for, say, the 10,000 flatboats that he had built for the invasion of England. French revolutions do not have a history or ending well, nor do they have a history of ever finally ending. I would guess the cost of rebuilding will exceed that a many learing centers.; 10/18/26, 1:39 PM
Shoeless Joe said...: I think there are only two possibilities for France going forward. The first is that the country gradually surrenders to the Islamists, and becomes the European equivalent of Gaza or even Libya. The other possibility is the Gov’t decides to go full Tiananmen Square on the rioters and starts shooting them in the streets followed by mass deportations. As ugly as the second option is it might be the only way France survives the 21st Century.; 10/18/26, 1:41 PM
Leland said...: They just want lower prices.; 10/18/26, 2:00 PM
FullMoon said...: "It can't happen here
It can't happen here
I'm telling you, my dear
That it can't happen here
Because I been checkin' it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times
------
And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh)
They knew it couldn't happen here
They were so sure it couldn't happen here
But . ...."

Mothers; 10/18/26, 2:08 PM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: It looks like only dudes are running around in there so it's safe to say the Women's Lingerie Department has gone untouched.; 10/18/26, 2:10 PM
JAORE said...: Diversity is our strength.
No culture is superior to another.; 10/18/26, 2:25 PM
Mason G said...: "They just want lower prices."

You mean like when the government provides stuff for free? Like they pretend to do with health care in some countries?; 10/18/26, 2:27 PM
Achilles said...: imTay said...

Obama started the war in Syria that flooded Europe with Muslim refugees, maybe he should have let these ruffians be Assad's problem, but you know who wanted Assad overthrown.

Obama destroyed the government in Libya, and released a second wave of angry refugees on Europe, instead of letting these ruffians be Qaddafi's problem. A funny quote from Qaddafi was that he was holding back the tide and protecting Europe.

If we manage to turn Iran into a destroyed state, without civil government, which is you know who's goal, let's see how many angry refugees that unleashes on the world.

So if you back these wars on the other side of the world to control oil and further Israel's ambitions for regional regiional military domination, kindly stop looking like an idiot and complaining about the consequences that follow for the West.

Welp. Timmy comes in with the 95 IQ take on the last couple of decades.

Obama took out Libya and Syria at the behest of the current rulers of Europe.

Trump is trying to unwind 125 years of British imperial rule in the Middle East.

But since you are only informed by MSNOW and Fox News you don't actually know what is going on and you say half right half wrong crap.

The fact that you can't tell the difference between what Trump is doing and what Obama did just makes you look stupid.; 10/18/26, 2:30 PM
Leland said...: It seems anyone can get free healthcare once in Canada. Perhaps they could offer the same in France.; 10/18/26, 2:30 PM
kcl766 said...: Thank you Full Moon. I was singing that song in my head this morning. Frank Zappa was well ahead of his time, wasn't he?; 10/18/26, 2:37 PM
rhhardin said...: Looting reduces inflation.; 10/18/26, 2:38 PM
rehajm said...: …remember how mad France was when their culture was being destroyed by invasions from the English language? Good times…; 10/18/26, 2:41 PM
Mason G said...: "…remember how mad France was when their culture was being destroyed"

Meanwhile, in Italy...

Traditional staples of Italian cuisine face being replaced by couscous and chicken curry on some school menus to accommodate the dietary and cultural needs of a growing proportion of Muslim pupils from migrant backgrounds.

The ban on pork products will be imposed on schools in the province of Pordenone in the north-eastern region of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, which has a high percentage of foreign-born and second-generation migrant children.

https://archive.ph/0xxTa#selection-4217.0-4225.220

That "high percentage" is 21 per cent, BTW.; 10/18/26, 2:49 PM
Original Mike said...: Macron blames Trump Mais bien sûr.; 10/18/26, 3:16 PM
Jim at said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/18/26, 3:17 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: Can we say Macron did ReverseMohammed – HUPB/PBUH - he took in his lap 25yrs older woman!; 10/18/26, 3:18 PM
Rabel said...: Twenty years ago Althouse blogged with deep concern about multiple private Islamic schools in NYC in which the students spent three years doing nothing other than memorizing the Koran.

A month later she followed up with this -

["Mr. Best said there is some indication that hafiz schools might begin offering a more well-rounded education than others in the city."

What?]

I ran into that chasing a link and since we now have Super Intelligence at out fingertips I thought I'd ask my friend Grok to give me an update-

"Yes, these types of schools and programs remain in operation in the New York City area.

The original Muslim Center of New York in Flushing/Queens (featured in the 2006 New York Times article) continues to run a full-time Hifz (Quran memorization) program. It celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2025, has produced recent graduates (Huffaz), and still offers intensive memorization tracks, including summer programs."

Good to know. And now they vote.

Please excuse the brackets. Doing it right looked too hard.; 10/18/26, 3:29 PM
Fritzthecat said...: Achilles said, "Is there a faster way to bring a nation to ruin than to invest all of your money into the older people rather than the next generation?"
LOL! I played by the rules and now I cash my yummy SOS check every month as I smile! Had I been given a chance to INVEST my money, I wouldn't have gone the SS route. Since that wasn't offered, I paid into SS for 52 YEARS. Now, I'm collecting. Cry harder.; 10/18/26, 3:29 PM
Joe Bar said...: FullMoon said...
"It can't happen here
It can't happen here"

Frank Zappa: Suzy? You just got to town and we've been... we've been very interested in your development
SUZY CREAMCHEESE: Forget it!; 10/18/26, 3:39 PM

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