French News
FRANCE: Prime Minister Fillon hands ‘national identity’ debate over to committee
February 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Prime Minister François Fillon (left) said an “experts committee” would take over the debate on French national identity, bringing an end to months of public debate on the tricky and divisive issue. Read More Read More →
Charles Bremmer
The French café: endangered species
February 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The traditional French cafe has been in decline for so long that we tend to ignore its plight. The story is one of those chestnuts like the demise of the concierge, the beret, the baguette and so on. But things… Read More Read More →
French Q&A
How safe is Paris for two young women traveling alone?
February 8, 2010 · 10 Comments
My friend and I, both 19, are planning to travel to Paris in a few months.. We’re going to just walk around the city and also the French countryside.. How is it in terms of safety and crime? Is it a bad idea to walk around the city during the evening? Hmm I have not seen Taken yet, lol is it about the same thing? Read More →
French History
Wine, friends and royalist popular politics: legitimist associations in mid-nineteenth-century France
January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Legitimism in nineteenth-century France did not simply take the form of a movement that sought to advance the cause of the Bourbons through associations and social activity. In the middle years of the century, it engaged with the new force of universal suffrage and attempted to harness elections for the creation of new political activities. Democracy could be experimented with for reactionary aims. In this case-study of royalist associations in Montpellier, the activities of legitimist politicians are shown to have evolved, from an important but little-known phase of engagement with democratic... [Read the full story]
French Law
A New Deal for End Users? Lessons From a French Innovation in the Regulation of Interoperability
January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
[Article published in the William and Mary Law Review] In 2007, France created the Regulatory Authority for Technical Measures (l’Autorité de Régulation des Mesures Techniques or ARMT), an independent regulatory agency charged with promoting the interoperability of digital media distributed with embedded “technical protection measures” (TPM), also known as “digital rights management” technologies (DRM). ARMT was established in part to rectify what French lawmakers perceived as an imbalance in the rights of copyright owners and end users created when the European Copyright... [Read the full story]
Le Monde
Les Bourses européennes se reprennent
February 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
La Bourse de Paris a récupéré 1,22 % lundi, après la dégringolade de la semaine passée. Read More Read More →
Charles Bremmer
The French café: endangered species
The traditional French cafe has been in decline for so long that we tend to ignore its plight. The story is one of those chestnuts like the demise of the concierge, the beret, the baguette and so on. But things… Read More
[Continue reading: The French café: endangered species]Bernard-Henri Lévy comes a cropper with fake philosopher
Our friend Bernard-Henry Lévy, France’s most dashing thinker, has egg on his face today after it was discovered that he had fallen for a well-known literary hoax. The story is delicious. In his latest book, published this week amid the… Read More
[Continue reading: Bernard-Henri Lévy comes a cropper with fake philosopher]Roman Polanski’s risqué duet
Roman Polanski has chosen a curious way to the break the silence that he has observed since his arrest last September over the Los Angeles sex case. The 76-year-old Franco-Polish film-maker plays a louche seducer in a duet on an… Read More
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French Q&A
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Visiting France on the way to my home country from the USA. How to apply for visa?
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French History
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