After an interminable winter, people are wandering outside this week to get a taste of sunshine, an element that now feels as priceless as caviar. Like goldfish bobbing to the surface of their aquarium to gobble down food, we turn our heads up and gulp down the few rays of sunlight that pierce through the [...]
In 1991 during the First Gulf War France created something called Vigipirate. Odd name we all agreed. Since then France’s government has put the country on Vigipirate three times: in 2003 during the Second Gulf War, in 2005 during the terrorism attacks in Central London and in March 2012 during the Merah Affair when a young [...]
Guillaume Serina is the author of Les Etats Unis, questions sur la super puissance (2004), and Barack Obama, ou le nouveau rêve Américain (2008). His new book focuses on Obama‘s main challenges for 2012, of which the most urgent include health care, the economy, education, and immigration. Dominique Godreche talks with the LA-based French journalist. [...]
“Casse-toi, pauvre con” (Throwing Nicolas Sarkozy’s famous expression—”Get lost, loser”— back at him.) “Carla Bruni just changed her Facebook relationship status to ‘It’s complicated.’”
Here’s a sampling of online front pages from 8:30 the night of the election (Sunday May 6). Liberation has the best headline, riffing on a lyric from the French national anthem. Sarkozy’s unpopularity has led him to be one of the very few examples of an incumbent not being reelected. Even popping out a baby, [...]
The cliche of French ennui is alive and well, and this historic habit of navel-gazing, to the exclusion of modern realities, is why the results of today’s elections-round one–will be pointless, according to an opinion in the New York Times.
So here we are, two weeks away from the first round of the French presidential elections. My official voting card showed up last week, so I am all set to vote for my first French president. I have to admit, I’m not as prepared as I could/should be. C & I have been so tired [...]
If you’re on Facebook, you might like to “Like” La Vache qui rit [Laughing Cow], the Elsie the Cow of France. She’s running for President! The site is full of jokes and puns and is really pretty adorable. I can’t vote in France, but I’d certainly be vachement more tempted to veauter for her than for the real candidates!
With its unequaled view on the Tuileries gardens, the Eiffel Tower, the Madeleine and the Assemblée Nationale (French Parliament), the Place de la Concorde is often dubbed as the most beautiful square in the world. Yet, it has recently been at the center of a huge controversy that is soon to be settled by the [...]
