French Politics (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand is attempting to coordinate a common European approach to Google and its plan to digitize all the world's libraries. He'll take the European view into the belly of the beast when he visits Google HQ in California next year. By the way, Blogger, the software, and Blogspot, the Web host, which bring you this blog are Google services. The Google empire...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
"Staff at the Pompidou Centre decided Tuesday to extend their strike over planned job cuts at the Paris mecca of modern and contemporary art. Museum staff and security guards walked off the job on Monday and after meeting with aides to Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand, they decided against going back to work."...
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Staff at the Pompidou Centre decided Tuesday to extend their strike over planned job cuts at the Paris mecca of modern and contemporary art. Museum staff and security guards walked off the job on Monday and after meeting with aides to Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand, they decided against going back to work. The meeting "did not go well," a union official said. The museum is closed to...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | yesterday
I continue to derive much simple impish amusement from the antics of the French president, such an endearingly silly little man, and French politicians in general. There has been so much recently to smile over: Frédéric Mitterrand, the self–professed sex tourist; the Prince Jean affair; the storm over The Princess of Cleves ; the massive amounts of money wasted by the Midget when...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Goncourt prize winner Marie MDiaye says politician's call for her to tone down criticism of Sarkozy is 'grotesque' The winner of this year's Goncourt prize has spoken out against an MP's "grotesque" calls for her to tone down her criticisms of the French government. In an interview with Libération, the French-Senegalese novelist Marie NDiaye expressed contempt for Éric Raoult's...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
*'Wait on tax decision' Mitterrand says ** Pascale Paoli Lebailly 10-11-2009 Presenting the 2010 media budget for his Ministry of Culture, French Minister Frédéric Mitterrand said it...
Jess The Dog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Not often that things come together so well. Just like the Elvis Presley Dambusters Clock Plate of Tutankhamun . - We were facing the prospect of an unelected "President Blair" being landed upon us following Brown's signing of the Lisbon Treaty...without a promised referendum. Thankfully that is not likely to happen. - David Cameron reacted to the Lisbon Treaty ratification with a well-thought...
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Sarkozy never disappoints, as he promised he never would. After denaturing Armistice Day and delivering to the farmers a speech that he had already, word for word, delivered a few months previously (I may find time to post on that); after condoning a pedophile and spending 245,572 euro to have a shower installed for his personal use (I will try to post on THAT - maybe he was trying to cleanse himself...
French Politics (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
I'm from New Jersey, so I know how to translate Marine Le Pen's remarks on the national identity debate: "Le président Sarkozy a lancé une proposition de débat, le FN dit chiche", a-t-elle déclaré. "À sa proposition loyale, le FN attend une réponse loyale" a poursuivi Marine Le Pen, en affirmant que son parti avait été...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
French Minister for Culture and Communication Frédéric Mitterrand officially launched the program "Mon journal offert" « My free newspaper » yesterday, which offers readers aged between 18 and 24 a free yearly subscription to a newspaper of their choice. It had...
French Politics (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
I haven't yet heard Frédéric Mitterrand or Bernard Kouchner or Alain Finkielkraut speaking out in defense of Dr. Dieter Krombach, who was kidnapped in Germany and delivered bound hand and foot to French justice in Mulhouse. A French judge has now ordered him to be incarcerated. Why? Because Dr. Krombach was convicted in absentia in 1995 of the rape and murder of a 14-yr-old French girl,...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
France is a foreign country: they do scandal better there. Well, they do. :-))Nicolas Sarkozy, the Mighty Midget, came to power promising to restore faith in the political process by creating a government above reproach. But this is France, a country were scandal and politics have always walked hand-in-hand; life just would not be the same without this partnership. Now we have the revelations of Frédéric...
French Politics (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
When Frédéric Mitterrand's sexual proclivities were in the news, there was some discussion of his use of the word " garçon " to describe his partners. Just how old were they? It was authoritatively (and correctly) stated that the word garçon is often applied to men in the prime of life by their seniors. And now we have proof: "C'est un garçon de qualité,...
French Politics (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Not politics, but I found this interesting (h/t Scott McL): retrouver ce média sur www.ina.fr Bataille says " Écrire est tout de même faire le contraire de travailler ." This, he says, is why writers feel an obscure sense of guilt. Au contraire , Georges. We feel guilty because we're always tempted to quit writing and " travailler plus pour gagner plus ," to...
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Five days ago Nicolas Sarkozy granted an interview with Le Figaro in which he spoke of many topics. Here are the passages from that interview dealing with Frédéric Mitterrand: - In your opinion, is the Frédéric Mitterrand affair now closed? - I am President of the French Republic. I must defend certain values. I will not allow anyone to assimilate homosexuality with pedophilia....
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