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Your Sunday clicks: Well dressed thief steals €6 million worth of Chopard jewels in Paris Crisis Stings Britons in France and Spain (with ace photo and slide show) Are French baguettes losing their crust? Carla’s ex-lover joins president’s kitchen cabinet Sarkozy hijacks Longest Day Why Britain is turning into France Sarkozy exiles glamorous Dati Remains [...]

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Take the chassis of a Ferrari Testarossa and the body of a Citroën 2CV Van – and what do you get? This: The vehicle is called 2CvNIMIK, and was built by an Italian rally team. If you understand the language you'll find more details here.

Baby born at 130 km/h. Last night, a woman from the South-west of France gave birth to a baby boy while her husband was racing her at top speed to a hospital. The kid couldn't wait. At just ten minutes from the clinic, the imminent father noticed that an arm and a foot were already [...]

Even when nothing is happening you can count on the press to come back from Roland Garros with exciting pictures:

French oarsman Charlie Girard failed for a third time in his quixotic quest to row to France from Cape Cod. And US taxpayers are $80,000 poorer. That's the cost of dispatching a Coast Guard jet and helicopter to a 21-foot, custom-designed rowboat bobbing 150 miles off Cape Cod, where Girard called it quits 10 days [...]

Your Saturday clicks: Steve Bell of the Guardian on France's snub to the Queen Marry the dead in France but leave California a trace The quick guide to buying cheese in France French men's insecurity over paternity of offspring creating 'a society of doubt' 10 quirky tours of Paris Remembering the beaches Ration-book chic goes [...]

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Only two men on the planet can stay under water for more than ten minutes without prior breathing of pure oxygen. Six months ago, Frenchman Stéphane Mifsud lost his previous record to German free diver Tom Sietas, who set the unprecedented time of 10 minutes and 12 seconds. Coming June 8, Mifsud will try to [...]

When it became obvious that the Germans were to invade France, staff at The Louvre scrambled to protect precious artworks from the looting enemy. This summer the museum exhibits photos of that effort, and Libération shows a selection of them, including these two: Diana behind sandbags during the war, and Mona Lisa recovered in June [...]

I would never have noticed the Eiffel Tower in this logo if they hadn't mentioned it on the Graphic Design Blog: 25 logos with hidden messages

Your Friday clicks: Britons see French as sexier, but less witty Expats living the good life say there is less crime and more respect in France Small-town France the key to solving Scotland's obesity epidemic French telecom firm fined for 'dirty Arab' password Air France faces racial abuse charges again Have the French fallen out [...]

Despite price hikes, scary warnings, and a smoking ban, France is losing the war against tobacco. So now the government comes with their latest weapon: graphic images of dead people, heart surgery, black lungs, sick throats and more gore. The pics will appear on all cigarette packs by the end of the summer. But it [...]