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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
Have you ever wondered who
Colonel Kadhafi’s father
was? There is a story that the
lucky chap was a Free French
pilot who crashed in the desert
and whiled away a month before
he was rescued, along with a
friendly girl, who in the fullness
of time and, as is the way these
things, had a baby. According to
the moderately disreputable
website bakchich.info, that man was war hero Capitaine
Albert Perozi, from Vezanni in Corsica, who was killed
fighting with the Normandie-Nieman fighter group in Russia
in 1943. The date fits and so does the photo.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
Valérie Pécresse, the Minister responsible for higher
education, has called for compulsory English for all
French students. “I want to break with the taboo on learning
English,” she said.
She was speaking at a lunch for French journalists in
Brussels, to set out the priorities for the French presidency of
the European Union due to begin on July 1. She told
journalists, “English ought to be one of the languages all young
people should master. We cannot let children finish their
education without being able to speak it. There may even be
English lessons at university as in Holland and Scandinavia.
Our culture shines out all the more when we can speak other
peoples’ languages.” The minister herself speaks fluent English
and Russian and she does not hesitate to use English in
meetings as she says it is a common language.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
The French media were in
full hypocrite mode when
a mini camera revealed that
the President of the Republic
told a member of the public
who insulted him at the Salon
d’Agriculture in Paris:
“Casse-toi, pauvre con!” It
was an instant internet
sensation. “Shocking!”
Whether the French
public as a whole will be
quite so shocked by this fairly
common colloquialism is
doubtful. Certainly some
older people will take offence
and the President’s very unde
Gaulle-like behaviour is
clearly part of the reason for
the sharp rise in the number
of people who say that they
are not “satisfied” with his
performance.
For the first time under
the Fifth Republic, the Prime
Minister is 19% more popular
than his boss. But vague
dissatisfaction may not equal
voting for someone else when
the municipal elections come
this month.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
French actress Marion Cotillard
triumphed at the Hollywood Oscars
winning the award for the best actress.
Her portrayal of Édith Piaf in ‘La Vie en
Rose’ through three decades of her life has been a great boxoffice
success.
The new world star is also the first Frenchwoman to win
a grand slam of top film awards in the US, Britain and
France. To complete her night of triumph she kept her
acceptance speech down to 47 seconds and charmed her
audience, thanking her writer/director Olivier Dahan: “You
rocked my life, you truly rocked my life.” She concluded,
“Thank you life, thank you love and it is true there is [sic]
some angels in this city.”
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
Consumer prices reach a 15-year high. Is shopping in Germany the answer?
Asurvey by the
consumer magazine
‘60 million de
consommateurs’ reveals a
jump in food prices between
November and January. The
magazine claims increases of
48% on certain groceries. The
biggest rises are in butter,
yoghurt, pasta, cereals,
biscuits, bread, rice and ham.
The food industry
protests the increases are in
line with steep rises in farm
prices. Marie-Jeanne Husset,
the managing editor of the
magazine, disagrees: “The
price of milk only makes up
one third of the price of
yoghurt. How do you explain
the price hike of 40% for
some yoghurts?” she asked.
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