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23 juillet 2010

Nuns on the run

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....
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...
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...
18 juillet 2010

Wow!

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

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....
9 juillet 2010

Futuristic Bellegarde is the shape of French rail

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...
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...
27 juin 2010

hair-dye queen's been on the fiddle

hair-dye queen's been on the fiddle
Naughty Mme Bettencourt! Below from the Telegraph via Bucharest Herald Liliane Bettencourt sets France agog over links between money and power E-mail Print PDF Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L'Oréal fortune and France's richest woman, is at the centre...
27 juin 2010

70th Anniversary of CDG's radio appeal

70th Anniversary of CDG's radio appeal
This from The Economist: De Gaullemania The indomitable de Gaulle Why is France swooning over its old president? Jun 17th 2010 | Paris A model of modesty A SPECIALLY spray-painted Eurostar train, carrying ex-fighters of the French resistance from Paris...
25 juin 2010

French strike over pension reform plans Unions

French strike over pension reform plans Unions
French strike over pension reform plans Unions want government to revisve plans to raise retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018 Reuters in Paris guardian.co.uk, Bernard Thibault, head of CGT said: 'The workers have decided to take to the streets to prevent...
25 juin 2010

Disgraced French soccer team returns home from

Disgraced French soccer team returns home from
Disgraced French soccer team returns home from World Cup 2010 By Mildrade Cherfils - GlobalPost Published: June 24, 2010 14:13 ET in Sports French soccer is the latest debacle to earn the title “affair of state.” The disgraced national team, returning...
27 mai 2010

The 'sobering up' cell

The 'sobering up' cell
French Chamber of Deputies uncovers secret 'prison' cell WikiMedia Commons By RFI A small cell thought to have been used to detain unco-operative guests has been uncovered entombed in the walls of the National Assembly, the French Lower House, in Paris....
24 mai 2010

Forced Child Prostitution Racket

Forced Child Prostitution Racket
Parent-led child prostitution ring arrested in Bordeaux Église Notre-Dame, Bordeaux Photo: Christophe Finot By RFI Nine Bulgarians suspected of forcing their eight children to work as prostitutes on the streets of Bordeaux were arrested by French police...
24 mai 2010

The Elysium Fields...

The Elysium Fields...
Plants take over the Champs-Élysées Planted fields and trees on Paris' Champs-Élysées, with the Arc de Triomphe in the background Reuters By Amanda Morrow For two days the most beautiful street in the world is even prettier. The Champs-Élysées in Paris...
23 mai 2010

Au Limonaire

Just back from the Limonaire - and I've only ever been disappointed once. Well, it was a Sunday that time last year. But it was a one off. Between Allain Lepreste, Francesca Solleville, Bernard Joyet and tonight, the wonderful, funny Michele Bernard,...
21 mai 2010

Paintings nicked

Paintings nicked
Paris art thief appears more no-frills than thrillseeker Christophe Girard, deputy Paris mayor, gives a press conference outside the Musee d'Art Moderne. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters The Guardian The deputy culture secretary at Paris city hall...
11 mai 2010

Climate change? I'd say!

From RFI Article published Wednesday 05 May 2010 Surprise snow in southern France By RFI Thousands of homes are without electricity in the south-west of France, after a surprise snowstorm hit the region Tuesday. Raging winds also caused huge waves along...
10 mai 2010

162nd anniversary: abolition of slavery in France

From RFI published Monday 10 May: France reflects on slavery past and present By RFI Monday, 10 May marks the 162nd anniversary of the abolition of slavery in France and all its colonies. The French government remains determined to fight relentlessly...
7 mai 2010

Britain sees a hung parliament

Britain sees a hung parliament
And so, one awakes this morning to a hung parliament, the Tories with the most seats, Labour clinging on behind and Lib Dems nowhere to be seen. It appears that the British voters preferred to stick with what they knew. The outrageous news of polling...
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