Pro Cycling Manager/Tour de France 2007
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
When I met this articulate young French organic cheese farmer three months ago , he agreed that his plight was rather like a modern-day version of Jean de Florette, the book by Marcel Pagnol and later a hit film with Gérard Depardieu.
Charles Bremner (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
It's always impressive how quickly France adopts a fashion. One day no-one is wearing ballerine shoes, then everyone is (à la Carla Bruni). We are now in the midst of a new sartorial craze -- le gilet jaune, or the...
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Lance Armstrong will ride in 2009's Tour de France. The seven-time Tour winner will also compete in the Giro d'Italia, the first time he has ridden in both events in the same year.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Lance Armstrong who won the Tour de France for a record seven consecutive years from 19992005 is to ride next year's race.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
The seven-time winner of the Tour de France has said that he will make his comeback in next year's event
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
France has called on the European Union to suspend its rules on state aid in view of the current financial crisis.
The Feedbag (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
In our ongoing series From the Trenches, some of the top figures in the business give us a glimpse of what they are thinking about day to day, in the effort to stay ahead of the pack. Today’s correspondent is Paul Grieco, co-owner and wine director of Hearth, Insieme, and Terroir. Today, Paul gets back to basics [...]
Funtasticus.com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
About 25 kilometers from Paris, near Versailles and Rambouillet castle, lies impressive models of France reduced by a scale of 30 times. This town is called Elankur, where there are about 150 landscape towns and villages of France, coupled with miniature forests, rivers and seas. Perfect for those who wish to see the whole of [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Starring: the original Rory Delap question, a wet pitch and a lame attempt at hand ball.
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the latest frankly bizarre showing of French opinion, TNS Sofres have asked the Plain People of France about attitudes to sundry prospective acts of dirigisme . Which I have charted. The first of each set of paired columns represents the attitude of left sympathisers, the second right sympathisers, with blue positive, red negative, and green the shameful don't knows. As formatting problems with...
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Citing the memory of her dead brother, Carla Bruni, France's first lady, today put her celebrity power at the service of the cause of Aids, becoming an ambassador for the main international fund fighting the disease.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Carla Sarkozy, the wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy, announced that she would serve as a good-will ambassador to fight AIDS with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. “I’ll do it as ambassador of the global fund, by using the exceptional people that my new position makes possible to meet,” she said Monday at a news conference. Mrs. Sarkozy’s brother, Virginio Bruni, died of AIDS...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
MIAMI (Reuters) - Seven-times winner Lance Armstrong will make a Tour de France comeback next year, his spokesman told Reuters on Monday.
Global News Blog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Global News Blog / IPS Hilaire Avril PARIS, Dec 1 (IPS) - Just like humanitarian relief, fair trade is a field that attracts passionate individuals with complex world views. Most are not in it for the money. But it is also rife with controversy, as personalities driven by conviction often clash over principles and practice. [...]
Wine Spectator (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Ripe and rich, this finely crafted Cabernet features fresh flavors of crushed plum, currant, dark cherry and spice. Savory herb and mineral notes fill the finish. Drink now. 3,000 cases made.
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puigmarti | 29/03/2008
Since the inauguration of the Contemporary Art Center Josep Puigmarti , the Pyrenean village of Bourg-Madame has hosted various activities of cultural and artistic nature: a meeting with children, the visit of famous artists like Lorenzo Quinn and Mercedes Lasarte, the visit of the art critics Josep M. Cadena, Francesc Miralls, interviews with various media, etc. ... One of the functions of the Contemporary...
