There is uproar in the neighbouring villages of Samatan and Lombez (Gers) in the Pyrénées foothills, over one man’s plans to ‘celebrate’ the 50th anniversary of the end of the Algerian conflict.
The wounds of the Algerian war are not yet healed – Image via Wikipedia
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Everyone knows the French sustain an ongoing and passionate love affair with chocolate especially, it would seem when it’s a little risqué.
Sarlat-la-Canéda and yes the link to the picture you want to see is below!- Image via Wikipedia
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Man and machines are attacking hundreds of kilometers of 200-year-old plane trees whose twisted trunks now groan, crack and splinter as power saws fatalistically devastate one of France’s crown jewels (See film review below).
Soon such bucolic scenes on the Canal du Midi will be no more. Photo: French News Online
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Some say thar’s gold in them thar Bugarach rocks and are offering ‘authentic hand-selected stones’ at €1,500/Kg giving the village Mayor a further headache to add to Mayan “apocalypse” mania running rife in Cathar country.
Jean-Pierre Delord holds a pricey rock
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The feel-good index is climbing, the wheelchair community is applauding, and nearly 19 million cinema-goers suggest that Intouchables has touched a veritable symphony of chords across the nation.
Omar Sy one of the stars of a film now touching all of France
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If the plans of a 36-year-old Toulouse architect and film buff work out the French aerospace city will soon be ranked up there with Hollywood and Mumbai as a world capital of cinema.
Bruno Granja, a Toulouse architect seeks to convert Francazal into a new Hollywood.
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A series of increasingly dire warnings suggests Europeans better prepare for a stark choice: either they save democracy or they save the euro but in the current mess they can’t have both.
Greeks lead the protests against banker-imposed austerity- Image Wikipedia
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Ten days after France’s Madoff, a former 54-year old local councillor Sylviane Hamon, was detained in custody on charges of embezzling millions in a Ponzi scheme reminiscent of jailed US chizzler Bernie Madoff, police have raided her burgled and burnt home.
Police investigating a burglary and fire at the village home of France's Madoff
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Less than 100 days before France’s presidential election Standard & Poor’s has hit nine euro-zone countries with sovereign downgrades and trimmed a notch off the prized French Triple A, a blow to President Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-election chances.
'S.& P. gave Lehman Brothers an A rating right up to the month of its demise.' – Time
