Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Le singe est dans l'arbre (the monkey is in the tree)
Learning French is made easy by Eddie Izzard (from his show Dress to Kill 1999)
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Saturday, 3 November 2012
Downtime on the Western Front
As Remembrance Day approaches once again, an exhibition of recently-unearthed photographs shows everyday life on the Western Front nearly a century ago. The photos of allied servicemen were originally taken by a French couple in northern France and sold as postcards to soldiers during World War I.
The exhibition itself is in Australia, but you can see a slideshow preview here.
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Sunday, 14 October 2012
Wrong number!
A woman in south-west France, who received a
telephone bill of nearly 12 quadrillion euros, has had the real amount
she owed waived - after the company admitted its mistake.
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Monday, 1 October 2012
Adieu Edouard Leclerc
British tourists heading through France often pause to stock up at one of the giant hypermarkets bearing the name E Leclerc, which have sprung up on the edge of almost every French town. Edouard Leclerc gave up his ambitions to become a priest and opened his first grocery shop in Brittany in 1949...
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Saturday, 15 September 2012
French Royalty Topless!
As a riposte to French magazine Closer's scandalous recent publication, La Residence brings you France's most famous topless royal...... Marie Antoinette!
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Monday, 3 September 2012
The Journalist, the President, his Partner and his Ex......
The complicated love life of French President Francois Hollande is examined in the book, Between Two Fires - Entre Deux Feux, looking at the rivalry between his partner and ex-wife.
Previous presidents would not have faced such public scrutiny of their private affairs.
Journalist Pierre Haski, who co-founded the Rue 89 news website, said the allegations about former potential candidate Dominique Strauss Kahn "broke this whole status quo in France and opened the door for investigations into private lives when they have political consequences".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9747000/9747391.stm
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Thursday, 16 August 2012
Prends un tic-tac (have a tic-tac)
A very funny ad currently on French tv....
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