French Bullfighting Beats Last Ditch Ban Effort
Animal rights groups spurred on by feisty veteran anti-bullfighter Brigitte Bardot have expressed anger and disappointment following a legal decision that ensures bullfighting is preserved in its traditional strongholds of southern France. France’s highest constitutional authority, the Constitutional Council has rejected demands from anti-bullfighter groups to ban bullfighting from regions where it is presently authorised [...]
BB’s Braves Clash Over Rodilhan Bullfight
A bloody battle over bullfighting in the small village of Rodilhan (near Nîmes) has provoked an outcry from Brigitte Bardot and animal welfare groups and charges of ‘entrapment’ by the local mayor. (Read more online French News here) The violent clashes occurred ahead of the finals in the Graines de Toréros or “Apprentice Bullfighter” event at [...]
Now a Monaco in the Mountains
Laàs, a village in the Béarn, hopes to become the Monaco of the Mountains — a haven of wealth and fortune on the ski slopes, in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques to be exact. (Read more online French News here) Over the summer Jacques Pedehontaà (53) Mayor of Laàs, presently home to just 120 souls, wrote to President Nicolas [...]
Marine Le Pen – the “True French Resistance”
As the European dream dissolves into Euromess, French domestic discontent is fuelling a resurgence on the right where a blonde knight riding the charger of the “true French Resistance” has entered the election race. The party’s choice of Marine Le Pen (42) to succeed her 82-year-old father as leader of the FN-Front National paves the [...]
Viva Green Bardot for President of France
French Greens are agog at the news that 60s sex symbol Brigitte Bardot might run as their candidate — on an anti-halal ticket — against President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 election. The Bardot Belle, now a long-standing and feisty activist in all matters animal, has reportedly written to the incumbent president saying she may [...]
