Flags of the States This Sunday we visit the beautiful American Cathedral in Paris . It was consecrated in 1886 to coincide with the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York City. This Episcopal church welcomes English speakers from around the world. Their permanent parishioners number approximately 400. It increases with tourists, students and business people living in France for a short time....
PARIS (AP).- Forget the lions, tigers and bears. Paris' Pompidou Center plans to fill a colorful circus big top with Picassos, Matisses and Calders instead, creating a roving museum to take its masterpieces of modern art to France's culturally deprived rural regions and rough suburbs. The so-called "Pompidou Mobile" aims to be just as avant-garde in its design as the original Pompidou Center...
On November 5, 2009 Alexander Skarsgard, Sam Trammell, Michelle Forbes, and Rutina Wesley attended the premiere of Season 2 of True Blood in Paris, France at the Max Linder Cinema. In the video Alex, Sam, Rutina and Michelle do a Q & A session before the screening of episode 1 and 2. Sam has studied [...]
That's it we finally went out of the first Apple Store to open in France. In order to preserve security, people can only come in when others are laving the store. The authorities were estimating this morning about 6,000 people queuing in front of the Apple Store. In other words, while we are leaving, some might not even be able to enter the store before hours. Below are some photos taken just before...
It seems that all “Parisiens” woke up early this morning to join a line to get into the first Apple Store opened in France. I could feel the growing excitement of the huge crowd which started in front of the...
Peter Brooks Dominique Vivant Denon, the subject of my piece in the November 19, 2009 issue of the New York Review of Books , is known above all as the first Director of the Louvre—which, under his guidance, became the first encyclopedic public museum. But he was also an artist prized for his travel sketches and engravings. Since I could only touch on this aspect of his career briefly in my...
Which would you rather do -- listen to Carla Bruni sing a Beatles song or hear about her psychoanalysis? Here are both, by courtesy of L'Express magazine and France 3 television. Harry Connick Jnr, the American pianist-crooner, came to Paris...
Thanks again to Fran Alonso for posting these videos... If you get a chance to see Richie... YOU MUST GO! LIVE dates: 08.11 Sala Rockstarlive - BARKADERO/BILBAO (Spain) 10.11 Le Splendid - LILLE (France) 13.11 Le Forum - VAUREAL/PARIS (France) 14.11 Borderij - ZOETERMEER (Holland) 15.11 Bosuil - WEERT (Holland) 17.11 Spirit of 66 - VERVIERS (Belgium) 18.11 Franzis - WETZLAR (Germany) 20.11 Exit...
Thousands of visitors from several countries visited the new Carrousel du Louvre (Paris) store on Saturday, including a hearty band of 22 who began the wait outside the famous Louvre Museum in 40-degree temperatures and rain. There were at least 500 in line at 10 a.m. to examine the country’s first Apple store, which also [...]
I started off last time by mentioning I was about to swan off around The Netherlands and France for a month with the family. Well, the swanning’s been done and won. I guess we could have delayed for a month or so and visited Essen, but I much preferred having the warmer weather of September. Staying on a house boat in Amsterdam was very neat (on Raamgracht, if you’re familiar). I picked...
Tuesday evenings, I had a meeting at my office with 2 students from Bordeaux business school (BEM) to talk about management issues in companies. Amazing timing considering that I just hired Eric Talavet as CEO, to particularly oversee my company’s sales department. The goal is to ease my workload and have more professional control over this activity which is now the only commercial source for...
Film News: Japanese, Brazilian, French firms take all rights -- Repped by Paris-based company Wide Management, Emmanuel Laurent's docu "Two in the Wave" has been acquired by Japan's Cetera Intl., France's Les Films du Paradoxe and Brazil's Imovision for all rights.
http://whokares.net/2009/10/at-the-end-a-justice-for-everyone-chirac-in-trial/ What should happened, happened at the end. In France, the president can’t be sued it’s in the Constitution, De Gaulle choice. The thing is when a French president is not in function anymore he comes back a citizen like the others. That’s why he’ll go in court soon. It’s the first time in France during the Ve Republic, a...
House prices in South West France have dropped by an average of 10% in the past year, but the countryside has faired worse than the towns and the coast. That conclusion is the result of a survey of house prices carried out by the regional newspaper 'La Dépêche' which examined the various indices for the region, as well as undertaking a survey of estate agents and notaires. Property professionals are
The price of building land in France averaged €54m² in 2008, although there were substantial regional and more local variations. The figures come from an annual study of building land prices carried out each year by the statistical service of the French Government. They show that on average prices increased by 6% over 2007, after twelve successive years of double digit growth. As the average surface
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