• 'Anti-intellectual' leader accused of point-scoring • Author's admirers wary of posthumous recognition French intellectuals have heaped scorn on a proposal by Nicolas Sarkozy to bestow the country's greatest posthumous honour upon the writer Albert Camus, accusing the rightwing president of trying to cash in on the thinker's popularity with little respect for his politics or personality....
President Nicolas Sarkozy's rocky relationship with France's literary elite has suffered a fresh blow after his plan to transfer Albert Camus' remains to the Pantheon was rejected by the great writer's son amid claims of political opportunism.
Nicolas Sarkozy rebuffed in plan to move Albert CamusPresident Nicolas Sarkozy's rocky relationship with France's literary elite has suffered a fresh blow after his plan to transfer Albert Camus' remains to the Pantheon was rejected by the great writer's son, amid claims of political opportunism.
After constant badgering by the Irish, who were unhappy at seeing France fraudulently advance to next year's World Cup in South Africa at their expense, French president Nicolas Sarkozy immediately flew to Cairo, where Hosni Mubarak is "having words", as...
President Sarkozy and Carla Bruni appear in unauthorised episode of US show that coined 'surrender monkey' phrase First it coined the insult "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" to describe the French. Now America's cult television series The Simpsons has taken a satirical shot at France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his wife, the supermodel turned singer Carla Bruni. An unauthorised cartoon...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy would the remains of French writer Albert Camus to be moved to the Paris Pantheon, a monument to great men and women of France and one of the most hallowed burial grounds in the country. Camus's...
President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to transfer the remains of the writer Albert Camus to one of the most hallowed burial places in France, but the plan has run into opposition from the Nobel laureate's son, who does not think his father would have wanted the honor....
A PLAN to move the author's remains to the Pantheon has critics bristling. NICOLAS Sarkozy should leave Albert Camus alone to rest in peace. That sums up the reaction among much of the thinking class and of the late writer's own son to a plan by the President to transfer Camus' remains to the Pantheon, the secular temple where the France inters its greatest men and women.
There is a surprising amount of liberal discomfort, here and abroad, with the underwhelming nature of President Obama's Asian tour. Apparently this results from displeasure over the lack of any substantive dialogue with the Chinese about climate change (and China's inordinate coal burning), censorship, the lack of human rights, Tibet, unfair trade practices, etc. (In the president's defense, if we...
The French have all the fun, as president Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to move the remains of Albert Camus to the Panthéon has exploded into a huge story there -- even though, as David Jolly reports in The New York Times : "No decision has been made on the Panthéonization," a spokeswoman for the Elysée Palace said, declining to comment further. See also: Nicolas Sarkozy rebuffed...
President Nicolas Sarkozy's rocky relationship with France's literary elite has suffered a fresh blow after his plan to transfer Albert Camus' remains to the Pantheon was rejected by the great writer's son amid claims of political opportunism.
On 6 May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy became the sixth person to be elected President of the Fifth and the 23rd president in French history. He is the first French president to have been born after World War II. Shortly after taking office, Sarkozy began negotiations with Colombian president Álvaro Uribe and the left-wing guerrilla FARC, [...]
Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy recently made a (very brief) guest appearance on The Simpsons. Note the cheese and wine. It's reassuring to know that those French stereotypes are still so popular. Nicolas Sarkozy et Carla B dans...
Nicolas Sarkozy et Carla B dans Les Simpson (extrait VOSTFR) The Simpsons offer clever satire on American culture but they often fall flat when they take on foreigners. Here's a new example, a brief parody of Carla Bruni and Nicolas...
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