French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been championing his law-and-order credentials on the campaign trail, but is apparently still afraid to wear his Rolex in a crowd.
French league officials reacted with outrage to what they called an unprecedented parental pitch invasion of a pro match.
Talk about hitting below the belt.
French First Lady Carla Bruni made millions as a top model, and since has managed to attain pop singing fame despite rather limited vocal abilities. Good thing the music gig is working out for her, though, because Bruni has now demonstrated why she’s never going to win a day job as spokesperson and cheerleader for [...]
Some people are easily entertained–which may explain why residents of the small southern French town of Céret are enraptured by the mysterious voyage of a plastic penguin these days.
Should a country celebrate the work of one of its most venerated writers of the 20th century, even if he was also notorious as a vociferous anti-Semite?
The taxman has never been a popular figure anywhere. But in the tiny Swiss village of Reconvilier, that functionary has assumed the even more detestable profile as the guy who’ll waste your dog if you don’t cough up what you owe.
Anyone holding their breath hoping 2011 might start with a bang of surprise can exhale. A new poll has discovered that the French are the most pessimistic people on earth. Mais duh.
Does France have it in for Lady Gaga? Or does the pop diva’s fury over having a concert canceled by bad weather mean a better name for her might be “Princess Wah-wah”?
The strangest things are turning up in the hands of French pensioners these days—including the disembodied heads of France’s former monarchy.
