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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
What brought you to
France? I came for
love. Others cross
the Channel in search of a
new life, or quite simply a
better one. Edward Fréchette,
however, crossed the
Channel for a completely
different reason. Bourges’
one and only Canadian-born
Scotsman was lured to smalltown
France by his passion
for toy cars.
Looking for a new car?
Try this:
An original 1963 Aston
Martin DB5. Options
include: sun roof, ejector
seat, rear bullet screen and
retractable machine guns.
Luxury red leather interior
and gold paintwork in
pristine condition. One
careful owner. This exclusive
model can be yours for just
€200, certainly much cheaper
than the original 1963 price
of £4,248 (inc. VAT).
Unfortunately, this model
does not come with the
revolving number plates.
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
Squids, syringes
and destiny.
Laura Sharpe
meets some
mighty glass
workers
Entering L’Art-elier is
like stepping into a
fairy tale, with brightly
coloured objects in every
corner: round and diamondshaped
mirrors, flower, tree
and mushroom lamps.
Julien’s Pitrat’s passion
began when he was a
teenager, restoring stained
glass windows for churches.
Eleven years on, he designs
his own artwork with his
wife, Stéphanie at their
workshop in Old Lyon. He
taught her everything she
knows about the craft.
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
Moggies beware: The Haute-Savoie gendarmerie is currently investigating whether a Cruella de Ville-type ring is behind a spate of cat disappearances in the département. Sally Green investigates
Since January 2007, 680
cats in the Haute-Savoie
have been reported as
disappeared, and the number
is undoubtedly higher,
according to Patricia
Dolciani, president of
Thonon’s society for the
protection of animals (SPA).
Growing media attention in
the past two weeks has
brought a further 180 cat
owners to report their family
pet as missing.
Dolciani’s attention was
first drawn to the
phenomenon by an article in
the ‘Dauphiné Libéré’ in late
July, reporting on a number
of cat disappearances. Two
months later, a Morzine
resident approached her,
reporting a large number of
missing cats and requesting
help to alert the media.
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
Recent snowfalls to 400m in the French Alps have sent scores
of residents reaching for winter gear and eyeing their skis in
the corner.
Not so for three French skiers, all in their twenties, who
were fined €500 and banned from France’s slopes for a year;
a first in French history. The group was prosecuted for
endangering life at the Contamines-Montjoie resort, by
setting off an avalanche on January 19 2006 while skiing offpiste.
Apparently the youths had ignored warning signs and a
formal notice posted at the foot of the lifts, forbidding any
off-piste skiing due to the high avalanche risk (four on the
European scale of one to five). Although no-one was harmed,
two members of the party were carried off by the avalanche
which then crossed a groomed run, burying a woman skier.
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
Three teaching centres will be soon gathered under one roof,
on the former site of the Molitor barracks in Nancy, in the
Blandan-Donop-Haussonville neighbourhood (pictured). The
€155 million-budget building works started last summer, to
welcome ARTEM (Art, Technology, Management)’s first
students in 2011. The first stage involves destroying those
barracks that won’t be kept, renovated and turned into
lecture rooms.
This university complex will unite the Beaux Arts, the
École des Mines (engineer school) and the Institut
Commercial de Nancy (ICN). The three bodies will share a
renovated 10ha area with the research institute Jean Lamour,
an apprenticeship centre and the Institut d’Administration des
Entreprises (IAE). They will be settled amid green spaces, a
sports ground, a glass art gallery, and an open air
amphitheatre. The buildings’ temperature will be controlled
using passive solar energy or geothermic systems, illustrating
architect Nicolas Michelin’s ecological concern.
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