Here's a tip for those who are en colère: take your anger to the Eiffel Tower and don't forget to bring a photographer.

Yesterday, it was the pig farmers' turn. A handful of them released a bunch of cochons because they are angry with the government and supermarkets. It costs them more to breed the animals [...]

Price comparison and consumerist site LetsBuyIt.com organized an international contest with one major prize: the right to spend 10,000 euros in seven cities within a month, and earn a 5,000 euro salary for making the effort.
The winner was 28-year young Parisienne Florence Romuald. It's not quite clear what she had to do to earn [...]

If you have some money to spare you should buy lots of these stamps.

At 10,91 € for a set of ten they're a rip-off but one day Johnny Hallyday will really die, and you'll make a fortune. Guaranteed!

French actor Jean Reno (of Leon fame) teamed up with a business that sells premium Hawaiian water to the Far East. Skip to 3:00 to listen how the man justifies this ocean-spanning, fuel-burning, carbon-spitting export activity:

In France you can die without worrying too much about the environment. This table lists the current toxic emissions of French crematoria and their future targets.

I found the picture in a slide show on the Le Monde site, dedicated to a recent business fair for funeral operators. Among the many novelties on show was [...]

Where is canine freedom fighter Brigitte Bardot when you need her?

Omnipresent in the USA and Japan, canine fashion is now striking France. Céline Boulud, 24, smelt the air of time and has just created BonchicBonchien, a brand of clothes and accessories for dogs. Now you can de-animalize your toutou by dressing it in T-shirts, skirts, [...]

This will make some people in Reims very unhappy: Bargain champagne beats top brands in blind taste challenge
Bargain champagne sold by supermarkets [in the UK] is more than a match for the big name brands, it has been claimed. Champagnes from Sainsbury's and the Co-op have beaten the prestige French houses in a blind taste [...]

Le Gaulois, France's largest industrial producer of chickens tries to defend themselves against complaints from animal welfare association PMAF. The fight is about this commercial:

The people at PMAF claim that Le Gaulois chickens would never be able to dance the French Cancan because they live permanently indoors, with a density of twenty chickens per square [...]

The annual corruption report by Transparency International (PDF, in French) is out, and France has little to be proud of.
The lack of integrity among civil servants, politicians and businesspeople leaves France far behind its European neighbours. On a scale of 1 to 10, France scores 6.9, ex aequo with Chili and Uruguay. Within Western Europe, [...]

On Forbes: Top-Earning Dead Celebrities
The money might be drying up in Hollywood, but there's still plenty of cash being made in the graveyard. The 13 iconic figures on Forbes' list of the Top-Earning Dead Celebrities grossed a collective $886 million in the past 12 months.
Topping the list for the first time is Yves Saint [...]

Pardon, a small business on the island of Martinique launches a T-shirt that could land them in court — again:

The shirt shows Jesus Jean Sarkozy who may (but will not) get a handsome job in the Paris business district, thanks to the influence of God Daddy Nicolas. The T-shirts will have a limited distribution (only [...]

The Diminutive Urban Car Goes Electric

Daimler has made a deal with the French to mass produce the electric version of the Smart Fortwo in Hamback, France. On the photo, one person who would never fit in his own car (Daimler chairman Dr. Dieter Zetsche) and one who does (and pays 15% of the bill).
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It's the end of the world as we know it: McDonald's restaurants to open at the Louvre

Fat Mona Lisa by Colombian artist Fernando Botero.
Wait for the next stage: Notre Dame becoming the world's largest Pizza Hut.
Update — more ruffled feathers:

French farmers are still pissed off with their low milk prices. So they did the only logical thing: dismantling the signs of the towns where they live, and dumping them in front of the regional prefecture, which has absolutely no influence on the price of agricultural produce.

Maybe they shouldn't be milk farmers at all, and [...]

Brigitte Bardot is a guest blogger for Peta, and she's angry as hell!

"When, in 2003, some politicians and talk-show hosts called for a boycott of French products because of my country's politics against the war in Iraq, sales of French wine dropped by 26 percent in the United States in just a few days. This [...]