Monthly Archives: December 2007

The Paris insurrection in 1848. Will history repeat itself 160 years later? Cafe owners warn of mass insurrection, businessmen say productivity could plunge, and psychologists fear the country may not stand the shock. The day of reckoning has arrived for … Continue reading →

There are thousands of Paris pictures on Flickr, and most of them are plain boring. Photographer Nino H. shows the exception to the rule. This is a stunning image of La Sainte-Chapelle (The Holy Chapel), a Gothic chapel on the … Continue reading →

French Playboy seems to start a new(?) theme: French Actresses in the Flesh. After Juliette Binoche in the December issue, it’s [tag]Ludivine Sagnier[/tag] who takes the cover and the centerfold in the French January Playboy. As usual, for those who … Continue reading →

[tag]Nicolas Sarkozy[/tag] (5′5″ – 165cm) and [tag]Carla Bruni[/tag] (5’9″ – 175cm) holidaying in Luxor, Egypt.

It’s not a day for serious blogging, so I’m leaving it to some French artists to entertain you. The first video shows Johnny Hallyday, who is concerned (at least he was in 1973) about the “forbidden Christmas” of lost children … Continue reading →

The horse in the painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps is believed to be Marengo. Right: Marengo’s skeleton. From a website dedicated to Napoleon (with over 8500 articles, maps, illustrations, reviews, photographs, and charts): Since so many of the paintings of … Continue reading →

Found on a Russian site: Views of France as 1600×1200 wallpaper images. Click the photo to see more. French Wallpaper

The motors swing the chair back and forth from side to side, to reduce Miladi’s waist. Cords attached to the feet slide them back and forth, to slenderize the ankles. Stretching and massaging the neck, to reduce the chin and … Continue reading →

Today’s [tag]Bouguereau[/tag] rip-off comes from FreakingNews. This [tag]photoshop[/tag]ped version (view full size) is based on William Bouguereau’s original 1890 work Portrait of Gabrielle Cot (inset). It was one of the entries in the contest “Photoshop mouths in the place of … Continue reading →

Nice hat. But what’s under it? He used to play tennis, now he’s a Shocked Singer: Noah lambasts Sarkozy French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche has named [tag]Yannick Noah[/tag] ‘France’s most loved person’. In an interview, the man has nothing … Continue reading →

A wild boar rampaged through a clothes shop in western France on Saturday before being felled by bullets. Christmas shoppers and employees were evacuated from the store and the 90-kilo (198-pound) boar began charging at police, before falling in a … Continue reading →

All was not well in Europe in 1870, the year the Franco-Prussian war would lead to a united German Empire and a humiliated France; one could call it the first of three European civil wars, the other two being World … Continue reading →

… Reunited by Nuke-Ban and Ray-Ban.

A selection of cultural features on Frogsmoke in 2007. Click any picture to find out more.

The best of the web and the international press, collected for you by Frogsmoke. Happy reading! France fears arrival of cigarette-smoking ban. On January 1, it will become illegal to light up in bars, restaurants or nightclubs, and as the … Continue reading →