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When Petit Noir becomes Caramel Macchiato
More than 300 years after Café Procope — a haunt for petit noir – opened in…
Caveat Emptor – A French Foodies Horror Movie
Will French chefs join the Food Resistance — still offering real bistro-cooked menus — or does…
Music Bringing Harmonic Notes to School Fails
If music be the food of life play on. Orsino’s bon mot in Shakespeare’s 12th Night…
No Buzz this Spring? Time for Plan Bee
As the European Union rolls out a two-year moratorium on certain pesticides, beekeepers warn that despite…
Year Five: Banking Thy Name is Obscenity
While financial freebooters thrive and ‘quintiply’, much of Europe struggles with Stygian darkness in a Hades of misery as the…
The French Onion: ‘Killed’ for a Chocolatine?
Reports of an abandoned family ‘trapped’ for three days on a broken-down Montparnasse moving pavement, or the Toulouse…
Robespierre’s “Terror” Haunts French Parliament
Extremist movements around Europe are raising their heads and winning growing support — notably among the middle classes…
Monsieur Faible Takes on the Self-Employed
French unemployment heads for an all-time record — 4.7 million are registered as work-seekers — Socialist…
Toulouse Conference Celebrates Canal du Midi
Toulouse this summer hosts the 26th World Canals Conference in celebration of the 240km-long Canal du…
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Libé's Full Frontal Makes a Point in Englis…
Libé, pop-paper of the trendy Left, has shocked the nation by publishing a front page entirely in English — while subversively failing to provide French…
When Petit Noir becomes Caramel Macchiato
More than 300 years after Café Procope — a haunt for petit noir – opened in Paris, France faces an invasion by the McDos…
As We Said: Insects the Nouvelle Cuisine - U…
Toulouse-based French entrepreneurs have been way ahead of the game in developing and marketing haute cuisine insect menus for discerning gourmets and now their…
Caveat Emptor - A French Foodies Horror Mov…
Will French chefs join the Food Resistance — still offering real bistro-cooked menus — or does famine await French foodies faced by the inexorable…
French Pilots Union Concern Over Maintenance
The pan-European, Toulouse-based Airbus Industrie has an excellent safety record, but following a recent air safety incident, an Air France pilots’ union has expressed concern about a trend for Boeing…
Symphony Of Summer Cygale Sound Ahead
The summer music festivals in France are rightly a highly-praised vaste enterprise, but there is one concert not widely featured on the national music menu –…
World Organ Day - 850 concerts on 5 continen…
May 6th 2013 is World Organ Day with 850 concerts spanning the globe, led by the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in an event…
No Buzz this Spring? Time for Plan Bee
As the European Union rolls out a two-year moratorium on certain pesticides, beekeepers warn that despite a welcome gesture, the world is approaching a…
Toulouse Unveils Sunflower Power on the Stre…
Toulouse is set to use sunflower power to light the city’s streets as it test-beds a locally manufactured solar energy concentrator. Toulouse is betting…
Olive Oil from Sunny Provence? Hmm ...
While olive oil is indelibly linked to the Mediterranean lifestyle, is it really all its packaged up to be? Here writer Bradley Kuett suggests…
Does Paris Love its Kiosks Enough?
Paris has had a love affair with its ornate newspaper kiosks for the past 150 years but there are growing fears they may disappear…
The French Onion: 'Killed' for a Chocolatine…
Reports of an abandoned family ‘trapped’ for three days on a broken-down Montparnasse moving pavement, or the Toulouse ‘shooting’ of a confused pain au chocolat Parisian over…
Les Halles and The Little Shards of Paris
Les Halles in Paris, knocked down in the torpor of summer 41 years ago, was the foodies paradise of the time but how many…
Toulouse Conference Celebrates Canal du Midi
Toulouse this summer hosts the 26th World Canals Conference in celebration of the 240km-long Canal du Midi, an event coinciding with increased concern about…
Cash-in, Keep Track of the Cuckoo
In France le coucou – the herald of Spring — is closely associated with the feast of St. Benedict, Annunciation Day, coins jingling (or…
Rocamadour Holds a 1000-Year Celebration
Rocamadour, the second most visited tourist attraction in France, is celebrating a millennial in 2013 amid signs that many more pilgrims will visit than…
It's Save the Frogs Time - Yes Really
Time to Save the Frogs — or better their legs — as global culinary demand for these sparks growing concern that Freddie the Frog…
Cahuzac 'Lies' Damage Socialist Credibility …
At a time of national belt-tightening, deep worry over jobs and growing disenchantment with the Socialist government, it was a very low blow when…
A Paris Bridge That Might Have Been X-Rated
This curiosity might have become the first X-rated bridge in Paris much to the chagrin of modern tourists with a penchant for padlocking their love, but…
Light on the Dark Horses of the Camargue
The South African poet, adventurer, romanticist and bullfighter Roy Campbell wrote his bravura autobiography Light on a Dark Horse, after a spell wandering the French Camargue in the…
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Libé’s Full Frontal Makes a Point in English
Libé, pop-paper of the trendy Left, has shocked the nation by publishing a front page entirely in English — while subversively failing to provide…
Symphony Of Summer Cygale Sound Ahead
The summer music festivals in France are rightly a highly-praised vaste enterprise, but there is one concert not widely featured on the national music menu…
Music Bringing Harmonic Notes to School Fails
If music be the food of life play on. Orsino’s bon mot in Shakespeare’s 12th Night is advice taken seriously in various French schools…
World Organ Day – 850 concerts on 5 continents
May 6th 2013 is World Organ Day with 850 concerts spanning the globe, led by the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in an…
Bach and Pachelbel – now on Vibraphone
Pachelbel’s Canon and Bach’ s Prelude in C Minor are old favourites in the classical repertoire, but now listen to them in an updated virtuoso rendering on vibraphone.…
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While olive oil is indelibly linked to the Mediterranean lifestyle, is it really all its packaged up to be? Here writer Bradley Kuett suggests keeping an eagle eye…
Paris has had a love affair with its ornate newspaper kiosks for the past 150 years but there are growing fears they may disappear mainly because the Internet…
Les Halles in Paris, knocked down in the torpor of summer 41 years ago, was the foodies paradise of the time but how many know of Napoleon’s role…
Toulouse this summer hosts the 26th World Canals Conference in celebration of the 240km-long Canal du Midi, an event coinciding with increased concern about challenges to the survival…
Rocamadour Holds a 1000-Year Celebration
It’s Save the Frogs Time – Yes Really
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The Grumpy Gardener – Going Blue (Bordeaux)
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The Grumpy Gardener – On Cowslips and Violets
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À Table: Going French Vegetarian
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À Table: Pigeon à la Française
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Symphony Of Summer Cygale Sound Ahead
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Music Bringing Harmonic Notes to School Fails
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Are French Screen Actors Overpaid?
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In Money Politics Rule and Bitcoin Doesn’t
As the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) drags on destroying jobs, lives and futures, alternative currencies are again making the news as people search for other…
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When Petit Noir becomes Caramel Macchiato
More than 300 years after Café Procope — a haunt for petit noir – opened in Paris, France faces an invasion by the McDos of the coffee world…
Caveat Emptor – A French Foodies Horror Movie
Will French chefs join the Food Resistance — still offering real bistro-cooked menus — or does famine await French foodies faced by the inexorable rise of microwaved pseudo-cuisine? TV5Monde…
Music Bringing Harmonic Notes to School Fails
If music be the food of life play on. Orsino’s bon mot in Shakespeare’s 12th Night is advice taken seriously in various French schools today where flutes, saxophones and…
No Buzz this Spring? Time for Plan Bee
As the European Union rolls out a two-year moratorium on certain pesticides, beekeepers warn that despite a welcome gesture, the world is approaching a bees or bust moment.…
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France Festivals
France Festivals – Non-Stop, Year-Round Arts Update | Scoop.it Summer in France is a cauldron of cultural fervour, with Festivals and cultural events dominating the…
Festivals 2010 – Cahors Blues meets Africajarc
Shadow of Recession Lifts at Festival d’Aix
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War in Mali … Is Islam Compatible with France?
When last November Le Point published this front cover (below) there was angry condemnation from the Left.…
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In Money Politics Rule and Bitcoin Doesn’t
As the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) drags on destroying jobs, lives and futures, alternative currencies are…
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Robots & Rubber Bands End Flatpack Hassle
Fed up with the hours its taking you to assemble those IKEA (or any other) furniture…
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No Buzz this Spring? Time for Plan Bee
As the European Union rolls out a two-year moratorium on certain pesticides, beekeepers warn that despite…