Stephen Clarke wrote God Save Les Françaises but men too are into fashion in the Hexagone! Take flip flops & Southwestern espadrilles for instance; two worlds apart…!
C’est l’été 🙂 Enjoy: Êtes-vous TONG ou ESPADRILLE?
Sébastien Le Fol
Le Figaro, 30 July 2010
no comment – just what I like in graphic design
Incredible yet true. Fifty years down the road, the nature of communication’s gone through a revolution – yet perhaps not the one we’d expect. Today, one would be sent to jail for less than that…don’t you think?
Watch your words!
Also available here.
Post by Denis Carré, pretty interesting on the Web 2.0. influence on courtship!
Read!
Good wrap up Denis!
Actually our generation is pretty stuck in both a post-1960s and post-postmodernist context. The apprehension and concept of time has changed with our generation. We live longer, we project anything we do on the long term, and therefore we’re scared to fail – especially in the old western EU paradigm which forbids failure instead of considering it as a learning step. The peace & love era, as well as the sea, sex & sun age are long gone. And with pressure on our shoulders, our generation is so freaked out to let go & fail that it’s somewhat easier to succeed with one’s professional career than with one’s personal life, and thus relationship. Hence many of us have focused on their professional success and find themselves home alone late at night, sometimes venturing on virtual social networks online! At the dawn of the 21st century, it seems our best pal is our laptop!
Just a few thoughts anyway. “my two cents”, for what it’s worth.
Watch UK Prime Minister Cameron apologise for the killings in Derry on Bloody Sunday.
and better watch Derry’s people reaction live
To all my Northern Irish friends
enfin 🙂
Germany Is Called ‘Naïve’ on Euro
Stephen Castle
IHT, 25 May 2010
Malheureusement, Amis Frenchies, ces articles du NYT sélectionnés par Le Figaro, ne sont pas en ligne. Qu’à cela ne tienne!
Je vous propose donc ma « sélection de cette sélection », avec les originaux en anglais.
British Voting Marks End of Labour’s Hegemony
Stephen Castle
IHT, 6 May 2010
une perspective intéressante – dommage que cet article n’apparaisse pas sur la page Europe du NYT/IHT! Booh!
Migration de crabes pour le 9 mai
Yeah! Who thought it’d happen?! Ok, it is for a French audience – French speaking ok too if you’ve been introduced to French humour! – but even if you don’t get a word of the Frenchies’ jargon, do take a look at this video! No Rep logo, but humour, average puns and references to old ‘chanson francaise’, a ‘forbidden under 18’ section, everything is there to create surprise. France strongly celabrates 8 May each year, although I bet an increasing number of younger citizens forgets the reference to 1945; and yet very few across the EU, including dear France, know about 9 May. Were it to be turned into a day-off, I’m not even certain it would help. This year anyway, the argument doesn’t hold since both 8 & 9 May are weekend days!
If you don’t know about 9 May, it’s the day to celebrate the Schuman Declaration, which paved the way to the EU. Not sure you wish to celebrate then?! oops
This year marks the 60th anniversary of this famous speech by France’s foreign minister Robert Schuman.
Watch 9 May celebrations advertising video by French Commission Rep:
Migration de crabes pour le 9 mai
And of course, they got their FB page 😉
More about 9 May in France at www.fetedeleurope.fr
Not that we did not know about it, yet interesting piece. Sorry I post it today only (I’ve been silent for a while indeed), but the recent developments observed during campaigning may well be interesting to consider when getting the results of the British elections tonight!
TV Debates Shape British Election, for Good or Ill
Stephen Castle
IHT, 25 April 2010
