Links for 31 October 2008:

Sentimental question: Number’s up for French EU-friendly plan to scrap local number plates
For San Franciscans: A Camembert worth buying
“Otherwise I’ll nationalise you” Sarkozy warns French banks not to turn off credit tap
Another tradition down the drain: Free wine tastings to be outlawed in France
Wine classification row: Sour grapes in French wine feud
Let Them Have Splendor: 18th-Century French Decorative Arts at Sotheby’s
Abbaye de la Bussière: Les rosbifs in a holy French stew
Case of mistaken identity? Mystery deepens over Kim Jong Il’s ‘French doctor’
To the streets: ‘Teachers in France are angry – Sarkozy treats them with scorn’