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Sanchez & Front National – cherchez l’erreur
EN Usually in this blog, I don’t quite write myself – I post what I recently picked in the recent press. These past days however, within the context of local …
La classe ne s’achèterait-elle donc pas? mdr
Amis frenchies & French speakers, rats des villes et rats des champs, goûtez ceci – écoeurant? et pourtant si délicieux! Ne l’”avons-nous donc (pas) tant vécu” lors de ces dîners, …
Le Groupe Marly, Le Rostand, Le Camus: Quid of the voice of France in foreign affairs?
Last week, the French daily Le Monde published a paper written by French diplomats under the pseudonym of Le Groupe Marly, after the café where they first met. We were …
La Bible dénoncerait les sacrifices rituels?
Héros un jour, bouc émissaire le lendemain. Le dernier livre de René Girard (Académie française, prof émérite à Stanford), Sanglantes Origines – passe de Milomaki à Oedipe pour illustrer son …
A masculine Mona Lisa?
What an interesting article this morning – and yet not exactly a surprise to discover that the model Da Vinci used for his Mona Lisa may have been a… man! …
Does progress really help?
Amis francophones, Amis fans de Philippe Bouvard, Je ne résiste pas à l’envie de partager avec vous le dernier Bloc-Notes de Bouvard (1ère partie au moins): Et oui, chaque élément …
Do we, witty 30-year-old ladies, scare men?
Les filles, avons-nous la tête trop bien faite pour espérer trouver un homme, un vrai? It’s Katrin Bennhold’s turn this week to be translated in French in the Figaro’s selection …
The September…no the November Issue!
Here it is! Driving past this boutique by the roadside in a village of the French Massif Central, I simply couldn’t resist! Would Anna Wintour approve of this?(!) I’m always …
Van Rompuy back and forth across the Ocean
In today’s edition of Le Figaro’s selection from the New York Times (which unfortunately is not published on www.lefigaro.fr) one will find one of Stephen’s article originally published for the …