Monthly Archives: April 2008

Gradually, all French rock stars from the sixties have become sixty-somethings themselves. Today, Jacques Dutronc turns 65. Jacques Dutronc (born April 28, 1943 in Paris) is a French singer, composer, and actor. He is married to the singer Françoise Hardy, … Continue reading →

Links for Monday 28 April 2008: French vintners flirt with heresy: screw tops (AP) French ambassador admits to ‘massacres’ in French-ruled Algeria (France 24) Taxi driver held over student’s murder after police alerted by text (Times Online) Jean-Paul Gaultier to … Continue reading →

Over one in two French workers (52%) have sleeping problems in the night from Sunday to Monday. Cause: stress at the prospect of starting a new workweek. Still, the French are not worse off than others, because the average in … Continue reading →

I found this lovely Lego scene on Brickshelf. The car is the Citroën DS (which sounds in French like déesse – goddess). The man and woman couldn’t be anything else than French. Click the picture for a very large size … Continue reading →

The offending picture. Click for bigger. The Paris based fashion house Louis Vuitton has filed charges against a 26 year old student artist, Nadia Plesner, for selling posters and t-shirts of a Darfur victim, holding a designer bag inspired by … Continue reading →

Links for Sunday 27 April 2008: French police come to California to look into mysterious death (AP) Carrefour cancels China advertising campaign after anti-French demonstrations (Forbes) ‘I turned down the French president,’ says Juliette Binoche (Daily Mail) Martin Love test … Continue reading →

A businesswoman in the north of France offers the most eco-friendly weed killers ever: farm animals. “We want to replace mechanical tools with non-polluting alternatives“, says Marjorie Deruwez of Ecozoone. She has around eighty animals on offer: cows, ponies, donkeys … Continue reading →

Christophe Huet is probably one of France’s most talented digital artists. His website is a treasure for anyone who’s interested in photography that never tells the truth. Better still: he even explains in slide shows how he joins images together … Continue reading →

[youtube]FWTigjH9ItI[/youtube] Remember the people who throw those cans around with amazing precision? Well, thanks to viral videos, they’ve apparently managed to parlay their skills into making an ad for Max Havelaar, a non-profit foundation organization promoting fair trade. (Via Neatorama) … Continue reading →

A price that slaps — do they really think this makes people want to send cheap text messages with Virgin Mobile?

Links for 26 April 2008: France to require apartments to come wired (International Herald Tribune) Aimez-Vous Romance and Intrigue? Lelouch Does (New York Times) Amiens is getting back to its roots (Telegraph) Modesty, mistakes… the new Sarkozy (Times Online) Marie-Thérèse, … Continue reading →

Maud d’Orby was a French opera singer, popular around the turn of the century, and did several series with Jean Agélou. He shot from around 1900-1917, and is most famous for his cabinet postcards of a prostitute by the name … Continue reading →

PVP, aka the French Hummer They cost 130,000 euros each, weigh 5 tonnes, and can carry up to four people. Their official name is PVP (petit véhicule protégé), but they’re likely to live with the nickname French Hummer, aka Frummer. … Continue reading →

The Miraculous Distillery for Ridding Husbands of Their Bad Habits is a wonderful French lithograph from 1839. Click the image for a close-up (Flickr). Via BibliOdyssey