French army base in Timbuktu, Mali, on December 6, 2021. France announces the withdrawal of Barkhane in Mali, on February 17, 2022. Thomas COEX / AFP
Today we celebrate Saint-Alexis.
We are the 48th day of the year and we celebrate Saint-Alexis. Originally from Florence, Italy, he is one of the seven founders of the order of “servants of Mary» in the XIIIe century.
The sun rises two minutes earlier at 7:57 a.m. and sets two minutes later at 6:13 p.m.
On the weather side, the sky is very cloudy, particularly in the North, the temperature remains very mild for the season.
February 17
1673: death of Molière
1800: creation of the prefectural body
1863: creation of the International Red Cross by the Swiss Henry Dunant
1914: birth of the writer Pierre Jakez-Hélias (died August 13, 1995)
1996: death of Hervé Bazin, writer and president of the Académie Goncourt
2007: death of Maurice Papon, nine years after being convicted of complicity in crimes against humanity
2008: independence of Kosovo
2012: end of exchanges of 500, 200, 100, 50 and 20 franc banknotes at the Banque de France
2016: death of the Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski, director in particular of “love robs»
2022: France and its European partners formalize their military withdrawal from Mali after nine years of anti-jihadist struggle led by Paris
some birthdays
André Dussollier, actor born in 1946
Michael Jordan, former American basketball player, born in 1963
David Douillet, judo champion, converted into politics, born in 1969
Philippe Candeloro, skater born in 1972
The saying of the day
“February flower, don’t go to cart»