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30 septembre 2009

Sotto Voce at the Pharmacy and other tales...

A little story to make you giggle from V who's a little horse...I mean, hoarse: Alors voilà hier soir, après la chorale, mon ami me dépose à la pharmacie pour que j'achète un truc pour ma voix. Y avait une queue de 2km déjà. Quand arrive mon tour, je...

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5 juin 2009

Poignant anniversaries

Dear Everyone, At dawn this morning 42 years ago, the Six Day War began. Israel attacked Egypt from the air and in less than a week, the army of the Hebrew State Tsahal lead by Moshe Dayan conquered Egyptian Sinaï, the Syrian plateau of Golan, Jordan,...

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28 juin 2009

Vaux Le Vicomte

Dear Everyone, What a day! Decided with Adrian to go off to Vaux Le Vicomte, the beautiful chateau in Seine et Marne, not too far from Fontaineblau. Interest piqued by the story of Louis XIV's Finance Minister, Nicolas Foucquet, who held an incredible...

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24 septembre 2009

Who said "noone loves a fairy when she's old"?!

Centenarian desires 23rd husband Wook Kundor says she feels "lonely" during her husband's absence A 107-year-old Malaysian woman has said she wants to get married again, for the 23rd time, as she fears her husband wants to leave her, says a report. When...

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22 septembre 2009

A heartbreaking story from today's Guardian: 'It

A heartbreaking story from today's Guardian: 'It was filthy, but it was our only hope' Afghans who fled the migrant camps in Calais before police raids are waiting until it is safe to go back and try again. Angelique Chrisafis in Paris guardian.co.uk...

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22 septembre 2009

Excellent article to accompany the one further

Excellent article to accompany the one further down, also from The Guardian: The Calais camps will not go away Alan Travis The Guardian , Tuesday 22 September 2009 French police detain a migrant at a camp called the jungle near Calais. Photograph: Philippe...

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20 septembre 2009

Ordet, by Kaj Munk

Just returned from the Théâtre du Rond-Point, Champs Elysées, with Fa having seen Ordet by the Danish playwright, Kaj Munk. A long play, very moving, extremely depressing and reminiscent of "Breaking The Waves". Remember that film? Tormented, despairing,...

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19 septembre 2009

Have some potato peel pie!

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1 août 2010

The affair that split France in two

Dear Everyone, The month of August stretches out in front of me here in Paris - plenty to be getting on with (I have a list as long as both arms tied together), but still, all work and no play has an annoying habit of sending me to sleep! There is a modicum...

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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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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

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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25 juin 2010

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...

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27 mai 2010

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....

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24 mai 2010

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...

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6 mai 2010

How can public transport possibly be free?! And

How can public transport possibly be free?! And what is this special 'mutuelle' you can pay into to save you bothering with a Navigo or a carnet? I thought a 'mutuelle' was for healthcare - at least, that is what mine is for. If anyone can shed more light...

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6 mai 2010

UK elections

Oh no!! Come on Clegg!!! General election 2010: David Cameron eyes the prize Patrick Wintour and Julian Glover guardian.co.uk , Wednesday 5 May 2010 21.32 BST Article history Conservative leader David Cameron looks through a doorway before a rally in...

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20 avril 2010

Sip and sew!

Ingenius - if you like sewing. Sewing cafe opens in Paris Rent a sewing machine by the hour, learn a new skill or simply sip cafe au lait Lizzy Davies guardian.co.uk , Sunday 18 April 2010 22.00 BST Martena Duss (left) and Sissi Holleis at the Sweat Shop...

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17 avril 2010

Abelard and Heloise: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Today, I wandered off in the direction of the IVè, metro Hôtel de Ville. My mission: the house of Abelard and Héloïse . The story of their tragic, thwarted love has always touched me, and I realised I had never visited their residence on Quai aux Fleurs...

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1 janvier 2010

Police suspect inside job as Degas pastel

Police suspect inside job as Degas pastel disappears from museum Lizzy Davies in Paris guardian.co.uk , Thursday 31 December 2009 23.05 GMT Les Choristes (The Chorus) by Edgar Degas was on loan from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Photograph: Photo RMN/Herv...

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29 décembre 2009

Marseille Journal: French Mosque’s Symbolism

Marseille Journal: French Mosque’s Symbolism Varies With Beholder By STEVEN ERLANGER Published: December 27, 2009 MARSEILLE, France — The minaret of the new Grand Mosque of Marseille, whose cornerstone will be laid here in April, will be silent — no muezzin,...

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29 mars 2010

Plums are in season

Dear Everybody I wasn't in the mood for going far today, didn't feel sociable but knew I couldn't stay indoors - cabin fever and after all, it wasn't raining! So, guidebook of info in hand, hat in case the heavens opened and a bottle of water in my bag,...

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8 septembre 2014

Merci pour ce moment, and breaking taboo

(Image source) Things can't really get much worse for French president, François Hollande: the economy is limping, his new government is already in the firing line, Nicolas Sarkozy may be launching a political comeback at any time, unemployment is over...

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1 février 2013

La Cérémonie - Claude Chabrol

(Photo source) La Cérémonie (1995) by the great Claude Chabrol, known as the 'French Hitchcock', and Caroline Eliacheff was based on and adapted from Ruth Rendell’s Judgment in Stone. Chabrol's interest in thrillers was not particularly in the source...

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10 octobre 2011

Paris's 'Dr Satan' of rue Le Sueur

(Photo: Marcel Petiot in court: Source: Libération de Paris) On March 11th, 1944 when Commissaire Massu went to investigate a putrid smell and thick, acrid smoke emanating from the basement of 21, rue Le Sueur in the 16è arrondissement in Paris, he had...

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