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French ban words 'TWITTER' and 'FACEBOOK' from being used on TV and radio programs

No freedom of speech in France. They must adhere to their great all knowing leaders.

Volcan islandais : pas de fermeture du ciel français

Le panache de fumée et de cendre dégagé par le volcan Grimsvötn a pratiquement disparu ce mercredi matin. La situation se normalise progressivement dans le ciel européen.

France's Christine Lagarde formally announces bid to lead IMF after Strauss-Kahn resignation

Lagarde est officiellement candidate à la direction du FMI
Christine Lagarde face aux exigences du FMI
Nous avons comparé le profil de la ministre de l'Économie aux qualités requises pour diriger le Fonds monétaire international, telles que décrites dans l'offre d'emploi mise en ligne par l'institution.

Madame Grès (1903-1993) influenced the history of fashion. A special exhibition at the Bourdelle Museum.

In the world of fashion, she was the pioneer of an intransigent minimalism. The sculpted dresses of Madame Grès have found a home at the Bourdelle Museum. The exhibition showcases 80 creations from the collections of the Galliera Museum, as well as loans from private collectors and contemporary designers.
[ parismusees.com ]

Sarkozy: “Now that the Internet is an integral part of most people’s lives, it would be contradictory to exclude governments”

In his speech to 1,500 delegates at the e-G8 Forum:

“Nobody should forget that these governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people in our democracies. To forget this is to risk democratic chaos and hence anarchy.”

“We won’t take steps that would damage growth in your industry,” “But you can’t escape a minimum set of rules.”

“States invest in training programs for those who then join your companies,” he said. “States invest in the technical and technological infrastructure that provide transport for the services and content that are circulated on the Web.”

The Villette Sonique music festival

is a weeklong event in Paris’s 19th Arrondissement, spreading various musical acts — including some free shows — between the Cité de la Musique, the Géode and the green fields of the park.
[ villettesonique.com ] running from May 27 to June 1

The wife of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said she is closing down her popular French blog.

She closed by saying, "See you soon."

9 great movies set in paris, one of the most romantic and picturesque city in the world

[ Last Tango in Paris, Ultimo tango a Parigi ] A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middled-aged American businessman whom lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.

[ Breathless, À bout de souffle ] A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him.

[ Before Sunset ] It's nine years after Jesse and Celine first met; now, they encounter one another on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.

[ Ratatouille ] Remy is a young rat in the French countryside who arrives in Paris, only to find out that his cooking idol is dead. When he makes an unusual alliance with a restaurant's new garbage boy, the culinary and personal adventures begin despite Remy's family's skepticism and the rat-hating world of humans.

[ Charade ] Romance and suspense in Paris, as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?

[ An American in Paris ] Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

[ The 400 Blows, Les quatre cents coups ] Intensely touching story of a misunderstood young adolescent who left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

[ Paris, Je T'Aime ] Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened.

[ Amélie, Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain ] Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.

Bike sharing plan in Paris "80% of the initial 20,600 bicycles stolen or damaged"

I think this says more about France than bike sharing. It's working great in London. [ nytimes ]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, D.S.K., a source of national embarrassment if sexual attack charges true.

un pote aux Etats-Unis vient de me rapporter que #DSK aurait été arrêté par la police dans un hôtel à NYC il y a une heure. (“A buddy in the U.S. just told me that DSK was said to have been arrested by the police at a hotel in NYC an hour ago.”)

French newspaper Liberation:
“Shock. Political Bomb. Thunderclap.” “Real or false, this affair concerning the director of the IMF puts him out of the Presidential race even before the Socialist Party’s primaries and above all it also discredits France on the international stage,”

Gilles Savary, a member of the European Parliament:
“Everyone knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a libertine, and that he is distinguished from others by the fact that he doesn’t try and hide it,” he wrote. “In puritanical American, infiltrated by rigorous Protestantism, financial misdeeds are far more tolerated than pleasures of the flesh.”

France confirms will hand back Egyptian murals

France will return five segments of an ancient Egyptian tomb mural held by the Louvre museum, committee, Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said Friday.

The provenance of the fragments, which Mitterrand said were acquired in good faith by the Louvre between 2000 and 2003, was called into doubt in 2008 after the discovery of the tomb from which they were believed to have been taken.

» Reuters [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

Printemps-été 2010 Prêt-à-porter

» Le Figaro [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

Paris scandalized as MCDONALD'S opens at the Louvre

Lovers of France's two great symbols of cultural exception – its haute cuisine and fine art – are aghast at plans to open a McDonald's restaurant and McCafé in the Louvre museum next month.

"This is the last straw," said one art historian working at the Louvre, who declined to be named. "This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odours in the context of a museum," he told the Daily Telegraph.

» Telegraph [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

French drop Polanski release call

The French government has dropped its public support for Roman Polanski, saying the 76-year-old director "is neither above nor beneath the law".

The move follows a backlash against a campaign for Polanski's release, with several leading European politicians and cultural figures refusing to join. He is being held in Switzerland on a US arrest warrant over charges of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.

» BBC [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

Paris Fashion Week: Nina Ricci's Peter Copping has excellent timing with feminine styles

From the self-assuredness of his spring collection, you would never have known that Peter Copping has only been at the helm of Nina Ricci for a matter of months. Of course the designer -- who took over from Olivier Theyskens -- also has the advantage of timing. His first collection for a house known for its soft femininity comes exactly when fashion is swinging that way, with lace, tulle and lingerie-like details showing up on the runways everywhere.

» LA Times [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

London Seduces French Chefs, Who Laud Openness, Bemoan Rain

Charlie Chaplin, Ava Gardner and Robert Redford were among the guests when Le Gavroche opened in 1967, so rare was a gourmet French restaurant in London. These days, there are many, including establishments owned by Alain Ducasse and Joel Robuchon. Plenty of French chefs and restaurateurs now have made London their home.

Besides the relatively low tax rates, what is it that keeps them in the country? I asked five what brought them to Britain, how they find the London restaurant scene and what they like and dislike most about the U.K. and France.

» Bloomberg [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

Google condamné à dévoiler l'identité d'une blogueuse

La décision que vient de rendre un tribunal de New-York n'a pas encore franchi l'Atlantique pour arriver dans la vieille Europe. Mais déjà, elle sonne comme un coup de tonnerre dans l'univers des blogueurs.

Le tribunal new-yorkais vient de donner raison à une mannequin canadienne qui réclamait de connaître l'identité d'une blogueuse, peu amène à son encontre, qui avait recours à la technologie développée par Google Blogger.

En fait la juge Joan Madden, magistrate la Cour Suprême de l'Etat de New-York, a contraint le géant de la toile à révéler des informations sur l'identité de la blogueuse qui profitait jusque-là de l'anonymat de la toile. Après la décision de justice, Google s'est plié et a livré le mail et l'adresse IP (NDLR: Internet Protocole, un numéro attribué à chaque abonné pour circuler sur le Web) de la blogueuse harcelleuse.
Il y a quelques semaines, l'avocat de la plaignante ne voyait pas d'autre issue à une décison en faveur de sa cliente. «Je ne peux envisager qu'une personne "poste" de tels commentaires et se cache ensuite derrière une adresse électronique. Nous finirons par la démasquer».

» LeParisien [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

Tourists warned as Asian hornets terrorise French

Tourists are being warned to steer clear of Asian hornets that are colonising France, after swarms of the aggressive predators attacked seven people. Hundreds of the insects attacked a mother on a stroll with her five-month-old baby in the Lot-et-Garonne department, southwestern France, at the weekend before turning on a neighbour who ran over to help. The baby was unharmed.

» Telegraph [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

French Winemakers Sound Alarm Over Climate Change

“Changes in the climate are leaving our vineyards increasingly vulnerable. Summer heat waves, recent hail storms in the Bordeaux region, new diseases coming from the south — these disturbances will soon be much more serious,” the piece continued.

» NY Times [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

LeMonde
Le réchauffement climatique menace l'équilibre des terroirs et l'âme de nos vins.

Fleurons de notre patrimoine culturel commun, les vins français, élégants et raffinés, sont aujourd'hui en danger. Les changements climatiques rendent les vignes de plus en plus vulnérables. Canicules estivales, grêles récentes dans le Bordelais, nouvelles maladies provenant du Sud, ces dérèglements seront bientôt bien plus graves encore. Les experts du GIEC (Groupe intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat) sont formels : si nous ne parvenons pas à contenir le réchauffement en deçà de 2 °C, les conséquences sur nos écosystèmes seront incontrôlables.

Le vin révèle toute sa subtilité sur son terroir d'origine. En bouche, il nous conte l'alchimie de la rencontre d'une terre et de générations de viticulteurs qui y ont légué leur passion, leur travail et leur créativité. Aujourd'hui, cette alchimie est en péril. Signés par des teneurs en alcool plus marquées, des gammes aromatiques trop ensoleillées et des textures plus denses, nos vins pourraient perdre leur âme singulière... Si rien n'est fait pour réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, les vignes se déplaceront de 1 000 km au-delà de leur limite traditionnelle d'ici à la fin du siècle : la viticulture sera confrontée à une remise en cause radicale. Les terroirs ne survivront pas.

French Strikes: Sarkozy Vs The Street

In the biggest demonstrations seen in France for more than a decade, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets yesterday to protest against everything from the global economic crisis to President Nicolas Sarkozy's efforts to shrink the French state.

About 300,000 people - mostly representing the many tribes of a rejuvenated left-wing movement - marched raucously through the centre of Paris to demand higher wages, more job protection and greater government efforts to stop the country from tipping into a deep recession.

» The Independent / huffingtonpost.com [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

French pool bans 'burkini' swim

French officials have banned a Muslim woman from swimming in a public pool while wearing a swimsuit that covers her entire body. The woman had swum in July in the pool in Emerainville, east of Paris, in the "burkini" - a loose-fitting garment resembling a wetsuit with a hood.

» BBC [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

Paris's Electric Car Sharing Plan

A plan to make 4,000 electric cars available for Parisians to pick up and drop off at rental stands still has some kinks to be worked out.

Could the City of Lights soon become the City of Electric Cars? Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, building on the success of the city's popular Vélib curbside bike rental scheme, is planning to deploy a fleet of 2,000 electric cars that customers can pick up and drop off at rental stands around the city. Another 2,000 vehicles will be offered in two dozen surrounding cities.

» spiegel.de [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

Louvre Online to Open Database in English

The database, called Atlas, will provide information on 22,000 works of art from the Louvre, as well as high-resolution images and the locations of works and galleries within the museum. That represents about 80 percent of the works available on the French-language version of Atlas, which catalogs 26,000 of the 35,000 works on permanent display at the Louvre.

» Louvre [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

French Cabinet Moves Closer to Privatization of La Poste

The French cabinet took the first step toward a possible privatization of the country's postal service as it approved a bill that will turn La Poste into a joint-stock company on Jan. 1.

» Blogeur [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

Tour de France: Alberto Contador wins; Lance Armstrong third

"Reaching Paris was as hard as I thought it would be. I'm exhausted but my team rode every day to support me. To win in such a divided team and under such circumstances was a remarkable achievement and speaks of an inner steel. Lance Armstrong conceded on Saturday night that he doubted whether he could have beaten Contador even when he was at his peak.

» independent.ie [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

Nicolas Sarkozy a quitté le Val-de-Grâce

Le chef de l'Etat est sorti du Val-de-Grâce à Paris où il avait été hospitalisé dimanche après un malaise

Agé de 54 ans, Nicolas Sarkozy est resté sous surveillance cardiologique durant la nuit au Val-de-Grâce après un malaise dimanche pendant un jogging à proximité de la résidence de la Lanterne, à Versailles. Il a été placé sous surveillance cardiologique et a subi toute une série d'examens dont les résultats sont "normaux", a indiqué l'Elysée.

» France2 [ Contribute: submit link / submit article ]

Sarkozy takes French presidency

Conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has won the hotly-contested French presidential election. The final count gave Mr Sarkozy 53.06%, compared with 46.94% for socialist Segolene Royal, with turnout at 85%. Mr Sarkozy, 52, the son of a Hungarian immigrant, takes over from the 74-year-old Jacques Chirac.

» bbc.co.uk

Defeated Socialists search for scapegoats

Let the finger-pointing begin. Ségolène Royal’s defeat on Sunday night left the French Socialist party in disarray and searching for someone to blame. There is hardly a shortage of scapegoats.

It is the party’s third consecutive presidential defeat. The Socialists now face the question of whether they can ever regain power without ditching their anti-capitalist rhetoric, as the mainstream left has done across almost all of Europe.

Ms Royal can argue that she did better than Lionel Jospin, who in 2002 led the Socialists to a humiliating third place behind Jacques Chirac and far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. But France’s main opposition party still faces a wrenching crisis.

» ft.com

Police battle anti-Sarkozy protesters

CLASHES between police and protestors have been reported in central Paris and the southeastern city of Lyon after conservative leader Nicolas Sarkozy was elected French President overnight.

In the Place de la Bastille in Paris riot police fired tear gas and at least one burst of water cannon after hundreds of rioters – some wearing masks – began throwing bottles, stones and other missiles.

Earlier, a small crowd brandishing black and red anarchist flags set fire to an effigy of Mr Sarkozy before tearing it limb from limb and then stamping on it. Demonstrators chanted "police everywhere, justice nowhere".

» news.com.au

French parties call voting machines a 'catastrophe'

The Socialists, the Communist Party and the Greens put on a rare show of unity to call the machines, used for around 1.5 million of France's 44.5 voters, a "catastrophe." It is the first time the machines have been used for a presidential election in France. Amid big queues in general to vote, people using the electronic machines were forced to wait up to two hours to cast ballots. The left wing parties complained following problems at Noisy-le-Sec, a suburb east of Paris.

"In line with our forecasts, the electronic vote has been a catastrophe," the parties said in a statement. They said that many voters had walked away in disgust because of the wait.