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The title pretty much says it all as once again the group Kiss-in contre l’homophobie readies itself for action - this time on Valentine’s Day. February 14 is the date set for the next Kiss-in, an event which since it was first held in (...)
9 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
It was supposed to have been a family treat as a group that included six adults and nine children made their way to a cinema in Paris to see a matinée performance of the latest Disney film "The Princess and the Frog". But it ended up with the (...)
8 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
An update on the French media’s fascination with a potential presidential bid by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2012. The next presidential election here in France might be a little more than over two years away, but that doesn’t stop pollsters (...)
5 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
The French are at it again - or so it would seem. Someone appears to "have the hump" with the number of English words creeping into everyday use in France and wants to try to put a stop to it. This time around it’s the junior (...)
4 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
San Remo "sans" Carla. It’s the news that’s rocking (forgive the weak musical pun) Italy at the moment. France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has pulled out of the country’s San Remo music festival due to take place in a (...)
"I do" and then "I don’t" barely 10 minutes later was very much the pattern of events for a newly-wed bride in France last weekend. The wedding and almost immediate request for an annulment happened in the city of Tours in (...)
29 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
It’s winter here in Europe, just to state the obvious. And of course that means snow and enough of it hopefully for French ski resorts and surrounding towns to do a booming business in tourism. But one small town in the département of Savoie (...)
28 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
The difficulties of "proving your Frenchness" even for the famous French. France is in the throes of a debate on national identity. At least some sectors of society and in particular politicians from the right are, with the agenda being led by the (...)
The recently-confirmed new boss of the French utility giant, Electricité de France (EDF), has agreed to relinquish his rights to claim a second salary with his old company, the multinational Veolia, where he remains chairman of the board. While his (...)
25 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
Now here’s a sight you don’t see every day in Paris - thank goodness. And one motorists on the boulevard périphérique, the busy ring road around the French capital, probably had a hard time believing: riderless ponies galloping through the (...)
While most motorists might get from A to B with only the slightest of hitches and the minimum of mistakes there are also of course plenty of daft driving stories, plain stupid ones, those involving reckless fools and others simply defying belief. What (...)
22 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
Tributes have been rolling in thick and fast after the death was announced on Wednesday of Cathy Sarraï. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of her. The name - until this week - probably wasn’t familiar to most French. But her face (...)
21 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
It might only have been worth a one-liner in the middle of the broadcast on TF1’s prime time news on Tuesday, but confirmation that Henri Proglio, the recently-appointed big cheese at the French utility giant, Electricité de France (EDF) would in (...)
This Thursday’s issue of the weekly French news magazine, Le Point, should make interesting reading for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or DSK as he’s most commonly known here, the head of the International Monetary Fund. Because even though his (...)
Yet another story of a French citizen falling foul of local authorities while abroad. After the case of those detained in Brazil in December for causing a disturbance on a ’plane, comes the story of Jean-Louis Lioret, who finds himself behind (...)
19 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy has become a grand-father for the first time. In the early hours of Wednesday morning Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, the wife of Sarkozy’s second son, Jean, gave birth to a baby boy, according to the Internet site, (...)
14 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
Give it up for Eddy Devauchelle, a true modern-day hero in the real sense of the word, if ever there were one. Last Wednesday evening, the 42-year-old electrician jumped into a freezing cold river to rescue a pregnant woman who was trapped inside a (...)
12 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton
Academy designed to stop infighting between rival intelligence chiefs. President Nicolas Sarkozy is to create a "school for spies", whose principal job will be to discourage French intelligence chiefs from spying on, and fighting against, one (...)
12 Jan. 2010 | | J.D. LeaSure
La Cour de Cassation in France, or the country’s Supreme court, has overturned a decision made by an industrial tribunal and an appeals courts which had both upheld the dismissal of an employee who downloaded pornographic images at work. The case (...)
12 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
Anyone knows that when you’re in a busy place it’s always sound advice to look after your personal possessions. As in many a city worldwide, public transport operators in Paris make regular announcements warning passengers that pickpockets (...)
11 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton
Christmas and New Year might have come and gone, but here’s a tale that (among other things) involves the mightily underrated brussels sprout - a seasonal favourite to dedicated fans. Thanks must go in advance to the weekly French news magazine, (...)
When French billionaire François Pinault gave up his attempts to build a museum on L’île Seguin, an island on the river Seine in the suburbs of the French capital which was once the site of a Renault factory, he chose the Palazzo Grassi in the (...)
If your idea of what flamenco dancing is all about is a woman in a frilly polka-dot dress stomping her way across the floor to the clatter of castanets, the accompaniment of twanging guitars and the loudest of gypsy songs - think again. Sure it’s (...)
Extra value in this end-of-year piece in that it’s a "triple pack" if you will. Three stories connected to each other only in the sense that they all happened in France over the past week and in each instance involved a baby or a young (...)
31 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton
Electricity doesn’t come cheap, even in a country where most of it is produced by nuclear power stations. But in a couple of cases this past week customers of the French utility company, Electricité de France (EDF) had rather a nasty Christmas (...)
It’s an easy enough mistake perhaps getting a few zeros confused especially when the amounts involved are to most of us pretty mind boggling. But it’s not really the sort of error you would expect from a government purportedly more adept at (...)
30 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton
There seems to be little hope that three French citizens detained earlier this month by Brazilian authorities for causing a disturbance on a ’plane, will be home in time for Christmas. On Monday their families had hoped to have a private audience (...)
23 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton
Opposition as to whether there’s a need for a debate on what constitutes national identity here in France is continuing to increase, according to the latest opinion poll released in the national daily, Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France. (...)
Christmas is a time of giving - something that’s drummed into many of us from an early age, although if we’re honest receiving might be much more pleasurable. Well, the town of Chalon-sur-Saône in the south of the Burgundy region of France (...)
21 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton
The former French justice minister, Rachida Dati, has given her side of the story to the recently televised clip in which, during a personal ’phone call, she appears to be expressing her frustrations about her job as a European parliamentarian and (...)
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