Category Archives: General

Advice to copywriters: check the meaning of your work if you use a foreign language: Not enough francophone to understand the blooper? Here’s the translation of “petite bite”.

It happened 100 years ago today: Franz Reichelt [wiki] was an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for his accidental death by jumping from the Eiffel Tower while … Continue reading →

Of the soldiers who survived WW1 many didn’t come out unscathed. One year after the end of the war a delegation of those Gueules Cassées (Broken Faces) showed up at the Congrès de la Paix in Versailles. Brave people! (Click … Continue reading →

The Klub Burlesque in Paris hosts tasteful striptease shows. This week they performed at the Virgin Megastore on the Champs Elysées: Photo: 20 minutes | Official Klub Burlesque website.

In 1910 they tried to predict how French police would operate in the year 2000. Spot on!

Everybody is talking about the luscious lips of singer Lana Del Rey. The folks at Checkthis.com are wondering how sexy male celebrities (such as François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy) would look with those hotlips. The answer: irresistibly erotic!

Famous photographer Robert Doisneau pictured 20th century Paris like no one else. An exhibition in Paris is dedicated to his black and white shots of Les Halles before they disappeared in the seventies. Nouvelobs has a slide show from which … Continue reading →

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Everybody can become president of France. They just need the support of 500 mayors and a program. Here are three of them. They may not (yet) have the signatures they need but their plans for the nation are rock solid. … Continue reading →

Last week Sarkozy turned 57. Even if he wins again he’ll be just 62 when he retires. This pic of OAPs Carla and Nicolas won first prize in a recent photoshop contest on Freaking News.

A French association fighting against inflammatory bowel disease invites everybody to take a pic of their tummy and upload it to their site. The result is a collage of bellies in all shades of beauty and ugliness:

Nice pic on Reddit but all they talk about is the grammar error

Street Art At Its Best: Via Wooster Collective. Click for source. Click here if you don’t get it.

This only means something to those who are anglophones: (From the Sign Language series in the Telegraph. Click for surce.)

VIPs in France (which includes high-profile presidential candidates) are surrounded by heavily armed bodyguards. Even if you don’t understand French you’ll get the picture: Update: here’s an English version: The “Supercops” Who Protect the French Presidential Candidates