French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard has confessed that he stole money to finance his films in an interview with a German newspaper to be published on Thursday.
“I had no choice. Or at least it seemed that way to me. I even stole money from my family to give to (fellow French director Jacques) Rivette […]
Godard Says He Stole Money to Make Movies
Nicolas Sarkozy Condemns Rioters ‘Yobocracy’
President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Thursday to track down the “yobs and traffickers” he accused of fomenting unrest in the high-immigration suburbs of Paris.
In a prime-time television interview, Sarkozy promised his government would take a tough line towards those behind a flare-up of violence that left more than 120 police wounded, some by gunfire.
“These people […]
An E-Book Reader That Just May Catch On
You’ve got to have a lot of nerve to introduce an electronic book reader in 2007. The Amazon Kindle incorporates cellular broadband service.
Sure, the idea has appeal: an e-reader lets you carry hundreds of books, search or jump to any spot in the text and bump up the type size when your eyes get tired.
But […]
Sarkozy Method Poses Three Risks
He still enjoys enviable popularity, but the honeymoon is over. [President] Nicolas Sarkozy’s ratings are falling, according to most opinion polls. His score varies according to the question asked. It is higher when the emphasis is placed on the president’s image rather than the effectiveness of his action.
According to LH2 (footnote: LH2 survey, Liberation 21-22 […]
Cooling Between Putin and Sarkozy
Vladimir Putin wore a grim expression as he stood next to [French President] Nicolas Sarkozy at yesterday’s joint press conference at the Kremlin. This was very different from the big smiles that they displayed Tuesday evening following their conversations at the Russian president’s dacha. Beneath the blue and gilt cupola of the majestic Catherine Hall, […]
Health Care in France
According to a United Nations report of a few years ago, France has the best health care system in the world. That said, like most French systems, health care is only as good as it is made out to be, when you know how it works.
If you are sick but it is not emergency, we […]
Finding English Speaking Doctors in France
You might say that finding an English speaking doctor in France is like discovering a truffle patch in the forest. Well worth the search once you find it but hard going beforehand.The US Embassy in Paris makes it a little easier by updating a list every six months of doctors and hospitals who speak English. […]
Blokes in Périgueux
Four students of tourism at Périgueux’s IUT meet three anglophone teaching assistants and quiz them on their experience in France.
Lauren Twist from Washington DC (USA), Lucy Falkner and Stephanie Zemlak both from England, Cornwall and Birmingham respectively, came to Périgueux, Dordogne in September 2006 to work as English-language teaching assistants - since when they have […]
Courbet restrospective
Best known as an innovator in Realism (and credited with coining the term), Courbet was a painter of figurative compositions, landscapes and seascapes. He also worked with social issues, and addressed peasantry and the grave working conditions of the poor. His work belonged neither to the predominant Romantic nor Neoclassical schools. Rather, Courbet believed the […]
Giacometti at Beaubourg
More than 600 rare mixed-media works from 1901-66 by the Swiss Surrealist artist and sculptor Alberto Giacometti, on loan from the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation, will be shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou for an exclusive 4 months exhibition.
Giacometti was a key player in the Surrealist Movement, but his work resists easy categorization. Some […]
