Monthly Archives: November 2006

Ferrari Enzo. Bought in the morning, wrecked after lunch. Russian lawmaker Suleiman Kerimov, 40, and 31-year-old TV-presenter Tina Kandelaki had a rough weekend in Nice, at the French Mediterranean coast this weekend. Suleiman thought it was a nice idea to … Continue reading →

No happy Christmas for Microsoft: French MPs dump Windows for Linux After the gendarmes and the Ministry of Culture, it’s the French MPs turn to switch to open source. From June 2007, PCs in French députés‘ offices will be equipped … Continue reading →

More wonderful stories from an island called France: The French have a way to use great words for simple things. Pupils of a school in the north-west of France are fed up with, what the press calls, canine dejections. They’ve … Continue reading →

Give me the luxuries: Wilde’s room at l’Hotel in Paris The hotel in Paris where Oscar Wilde died: In search of a disgraced genius’s last locations Oscar Wilde fought his last battle in Paris at a down-at-heel dive, the Hotel … Continue reading →

A Professor says it, so it must be true: Some of the world’s longest-living people drink wine every day Wine has long been known to have health benefits and the festive season is a good time to try the ones … Continue reading →

Even the Americans love it: Handcrafted French Pocketknife Handcrafted in a small shop in Thiers, France, by a fifth-generation master coutelier, this distinctive pocketknife is of exceptional quality. The 3″ blade, made with Sandvik® 12C27 stainless steel for good corrosion … Continue reading →

[googlevideo]3085067163582889614[/googlevideo] A beautiful and ironic animation realised by the students of SunpInfoCom, a school that teaches computer graphics, in the French town of Arles. The film has English subtitles. SunpInfoCom | Watch or download the film on Google Video

A long article in the telegraph about a famous photographer: Henry Cartier-Bresson always wanted to be a painter- and it shows Although he had started out with the ambition to be a painter – an ambition which, indeed, he clung … Continue reading →

Gudrun Scyman, member of the Swedish parliament is angry: lingerie-maker H&M uses French actress Emmanuelle Béart to play porn. It doesn’t look like Scyman has ever seen a real porn film. The commercial she’s mad about is as decent as … Continue reading →

Jacques may not give up yet: Chirac believes that only a “grandfather figure” can take on the “mother figure” Ségolène Royal. A senior source on the French centre-right, close to M. Chirac, believes that Mme Royal’s crushing victory in the … Continue reading →

They go by the euphemistic term Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or Sensitive Urban Zones, with the even more antiseptic acronym ZUS, and there are 751 of them as of last count. They are convienently listed by the government on one long … Continue reading →

More wonderful stories from the world of crime: Police had an easy job solving a burglary in the west of France. The thief was unfortunate enough to lose his carte d’identité in the house where the burglary took place. He’s … Continue reading →

The back-to-basics James Bond of Casino Royale has brought a bonanza to a small French firm whose apéritif was part of 007’s Martini in Ian Fleming’s novel. The Lillet company, in the village of Podensac, near Bordeaux, has been deluged … Continue reading →

A new book accuses French babyboomers of living beyond their means, and leaving their kids to pick up the pieces “The social unrest of 2005 and 2006 has revealed a deep crisis. New generations are in disarray and have no … Continue reading →

[youtube]xony7RdurR0[/youtube] Every Friday, Frogsmoke gives a French female singer her own space. Today’s “Fille Sourire” is Veronique Jannot, performing “Aviateur” (1988). Véronique Jannot is a French actress whose star shone brightest (in France) at the beginning of the 80′s. Like … Continue reading →