Monthly Archives: October 2007

Another Worth1000 contest, another Bouguereau rip-off. This contest was named If Cowboys Ruled. In this photoshopped version, the little angels in Bouguereau’s most famous painting L’Amour et Psyché, enfants (Cupid and Psyche as Children, 1889) have flown to the Wild … Continue reading →

Smile Schweitzer — you just took 12 million euros home. It pays to be at the top of a French company: The fifty highest-paid bosses in France take on average 3.8 million euros home, which is more than 300 times … Continue reading →

Using a national monument as billboard: The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is apparently an easily accessible landmark for those who are seeking attention. This week, the Palestinian flag was hanging off the top to welcome Israeli Prime Minster Ehud … Continue reading →

French actress Juliette Binoche doesn’t usually take her clothes off in her movies, so all (well, some) eyes will be on next month’s French Playboy edition, where she’s both the cover girl and the uncovered girl. And for those who … Continue reading →

Google may be a seriously big company, but they haven’t lost their sense of humour. Just see what you get if you enter the following words into its online translator: sarkozy sarkozy sarkozy sarkozy, sarkozy, sarkozy sarkozy is chirac Google … Continue reading →

Next year promises to be hot: The trend seems to be unstoppable. At least two Naked Farmers Calendars have seen the light. In both cases French peasants undress for charity. Above is an image from a calendar showing only male … Continue reading →

Original use of the gun that Amnesty International doesn’t consider safe: A policeman saved a homeless man in Paris who wanted to stab himself to death under the Eiffel Tower. After the first stab the policeman fired his Taser, neutralizing … Continue reading →

Just added to the Little Big Man gallery: Nicolas Sarkozy meets Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, rugby boss Bernard Lapasset, Moroccan King Mohammed VI, and has stopped meeting Cecilia. Visit the Gallery

France’s new answer to youth crime: the building-less entry-hall Authorities in Le Havre have found a bizarre way to solve the problem of urban delinquents hanging about in the entry-halls of blocks of flats: an entry-hall with no flats. A … Continue reading →

The Japanese have chosen their best buttocks this weekend, and tomorrow it’s France’s turn. In the famous Crazy Horse club in Paris, the ten finalists of the Show me your Sloggi contest (pictured above) will parade in front of a … Continue reading →

Marion Cotillard plays Edit Piaf in the acclaimed film La Vie En Rose. The New York Times has a long interview with her, and a slide show of Cotillard in expensive dresses. When I read the script, I was really … Continue reading →

The French presidential website is usually very up-to-date with photos and videos of the Great Leader’s Greatest Moments. But the page with Sarko’s Curriculum Vitae is still telling the world that he is a married man. Time for an update … Continue reading →

If the boy on this photo was still alive he would be 83 today, and hardly anybody would know him. But Guy Moquet is not alive. Today 66 years ago he was taken hostage by the Nazis and, at the … Continue reading →

Sickening waste of money: According to a recent study, medicines in France cost a lot more than in Germany, Spain, Italy and the UK. On top of that, the French use them more than their neighbors. In six of nine … Continue reading →

The best of the web and the international press, collected for you by Frogsmoke. Enjoy! France’s disgraced coach gives his President the blues Nicolas Sarkozy’s first looming cabinet crisis comes down to rugby. Bernard Laporte, Sarkozy’s jogging partner and coach … Continue reading →