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29 juillet 2010

Squatter camps to be closed down

From Bloomsberg Sarkozy to Shut Illegal French Squatters Camps, Deport Roma After Riot By Helene Fouquet - Jul 28, 2010 6:45 PM GMT+0200 Wed Jul 28 16:45:29 UTC 2010 French President Nicolas Sarkozy will shut down squatters camps in a crackdown on French...

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29 juillet 2010

Teeth for two...

From ABC News Churchill's false teeth go on sale Posted 4 hours 31 minutes ago A set of dentures made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill have gone under the hammer in Britain. Auctioneers say they expect the item to fetch up to 5,000...

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23 juillet 2010

Nuns on the run

Hilarious! From today's Telegraph: Two nuns go on run over threat to send them to retirement home Two fugitive nuns in their 80s have gone on the run in France to escape being sent to a retirement home by their Mother Superior. Published: 5:02PM BST 23...

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20 juillet 2010

The sweat shop of St Martin

I wrote about this cafe a while ago - now here it is again from RFI. What a great idea! Monday 19 July 2010 The Sweat Shop of Café Couture By Marjorie Hache A small shop by the Canal Saint Martin has recently been making a lot of noise: The Sweat Shop....

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18 juillet 2010

All the world's a page!

Book reviews next! Hurrah! Nothing like a bit of summer reading to get your gnashers firmly into. The first is by Jeffrey Jackson and published by Palgrave Macmillon - "Paris Under Water". "Paris Under Water is a riveting account of a natural catastrophe...

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18 juillet 2010

130th Anniversary WWI Spy, Louise de Bettignies

Reading the History Today magazine here in Greenwich library with one eye admiring the beautiful house opposite and wishing fervently that I could one day buy a home such as that and live in such a gorgeous neighbourhood, I fell upon an article about...

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18 juillet 2010

Wow!

Researcher Puts 400-Year-Old Murder Mystery to Rest Hugh Collins Contributor Yahoo AOL News (July 16) -- New research by an Italian scientist has solved a murder mystery that has lingered for more than 400 years. The death of Francesco I de' Medici, the...

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9 juillet 2010

Views from across the channel

English cartoonists lampoon French By Aidan O'Donnell from www.english.rfi.fr In France’s northernmost department, the Pas de Calais, an English perspective on post-revolutionary France is on show at the Château d’Hardelot’s Centre for l’Entente Cordiale....

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9 juillet 2010

Futuristic Bellegarde is the shape of French rail

Futuristic Bellegarde is the shape of French rail stations to come Bellegarde station is the prototype for a key French Rail project aiming to put stations back at the heart of communities Guardian Weekly, Inside the futuristic Bellegarde station, in...

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4 juillet 2010

No surprise there...

Well, he'd hardly admit it now, would he?!! This from RFI: French minister denies giving scandal-hit billionaire tax refund Share Friday at 12:15pm French minister Eric Woerth faces a new wave of criticism over a tax refund given to L’Oreal heiress, Liliane...

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