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A clip named Petit Cours de Gym dans la Classe from the 1984 movie Vive les Femmes. No wonder those kids love to go to school!

The clip features French actress Catherine Leprince. In the same movie (but without the kids in sight) she shows quite a bit more flesh (NSFW):

HT Filles Souries
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Jean Reno (wiki) is one of the few French actors who has made it in Hollywood. One of the reasons is of course that he is also one of the few French actors who speaks understandable English. Digital artists across the world celebrate Reno’s 60th birthday this week with photoshopped portraits on FreakingNews. I’m showing […]

French singer Alizée [wiki] became an instant hit in 2000 when she released her first album, Gourmandises, which became platinum within three months. She was only sixteen at the time. Everything has gone fast for her since. She got married when she was 19, became mother at 21, and is now apparently very popular in […]

Tomorrow, 17-year old Hadrien is starting a 1,200km walk across France, together with travel companion Camomille, an 18-month old cow. Since cows are not used to walking long distances, the duo will limit their daily distances to 20km, and have one rest day each week.
The total periple will take at least four months, during […]

Le Figaro has started a series about public enemies in French history.
The opening article deals with Jules Bonnot, a French illegalist famous for his involvement in a criminal anarchist organization dubbed “The Bonnot Gang” by the French press. He viewed himself as a professional and avoided bloodshed, preferring to outwit his targets. Often posing […]

This picture (found on Vintage Photo) shows French actress Polaire (née Emilie Marie Bouchaud, 1879-1939) during an American tour in the summer of 1910. The black footman she acquired during the trip was provocatively called her “black slave”.

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Polaire was mostly known for her wasp waist:

Her corseted waist was sometimes reported to […]

Rolling Stone Mick Jagger celebrates his 65th birthday today, and the Daily Mail (who else?) asks: As you reach 65, Mick, how many of these 65 conquests do you remember?
The list of 65 women contains three (sort of) Françaises:

I knew about Carla Bruni (although she was Italian at the time), but Brigitte Bardot? Anyway, these […]

French singer Camille never ceases to amaze me. Here she is in her latest bilingual clip, “Money Note” from her album “Music Hole”:

HT Filles Sourires

Click to find out — and discover some more pics of her.

Yesterday she was still a Chocoholic Anonymous — today, Reuters adds a face to the story:

French air hostess Mathilde Epron will become one of Europe’s pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth’s atmosphere. […]

I featured Joseph the Beatboxer before, and here he is again — more amazing than ever(2:39):

Twenty years separate these photos. Vanessa Paradis broke through as a singer in 1988, barely 16 years old. Today, she’s a mother of two (with Johnny Depp, her partner of ten years as the father), and one of France’s best paid singers and actresses.
Watch the slide show covering her career in L’Express

A French guy named Rémi thinks he’s very funny — and many people seem to to agree. (I don’t.)

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French lefties are suffering from massive schizophrenia: even if they like Carla Bruni’s new album they have to say they hate it, because they can’t stand her husband.
Never mind! Bruni’s “Comme si de rien n’était” is a solid piece of work, and the first single from it (L’amoureuse) is a lovely song about a […]

French superstar Mylène Farmer is back. The enigmatic singer, who hardly ever gives concerts, never goes on TV, but sold 25 million records in 25 years, has just released her latest single, Dégéneration. As usual, Farmer turns it into an erotic piece of cinema. Here’s what I understand from it:
Mylène plays an extra-terrestrial woman, sent […]