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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
Henri Salvador who died
unexpectedly at the age of 90 from a
stroke was one of France’s most popular
show biz personalities.
For over sixty years he enchanted
French audiences with his crooning,
comic songs, talents as a musician, TV
shows and extraordinary laugh. Last
December, he said goodbye to his fans at
a packed audience at the Palais des
Congrès. He was working on a
biography at the time of his death.
He was the son of a tax collector
from Guadeloupe, born in French
Cayenne and began his career with
Jango Reinhardt in Paris in the ‘30s. He
first made his name on tour in South
America with Ray Ventura in 1941
singing ‘Maladie d’amour’. He was
fascinated by Brazil where he was very
popular and claimed to have invented the
Bossanova.
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Who was it said “Lif’s a bitch and thn you di?” Wll h,
or sh, was right. I cam to Franc for a lss complicatd
lif, and what happns? On a prfctly ordinary Fbruary day,
out of th blu, unannouncd, unhraldd, for no apparnt rason,
my computr dcids to stop printing th lttr ‘’! No mattr how
hard, or how oftn, I prss th ky, th ‘’ just won’t appar. And I
hav a dadlin to mt with this articl for Frnch Nws. Rally, I
could scram.
I suppos thr is som consolation – I can now typ swar
words confidnt in th knowldg that thy won’t b cnsord –
words lik ‘buggr’ and ‘hll’. But what about th bautifully
craftd ssay I was about to pn on th Frnch ducation Systm,
h? Why dos it always happn to m? Anyon ls, th ‘j’ ky
might hav xpird, or mayb th ‘+’ ky. Wll you can manag without thm, but not th
‘’, th most commonly usd lttr of all.
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
Each year at Easter, a band of 20
university students has been coming to
the Lot-et-Garonne to spend a week
playing jazz. Leeds University Union Dance
Band has been making the pilgrimage at their
own expense for more than a decade.
It all started nearly 20 years ago when
Ron Fairfax from Hull, who has a second
home near Villeréal, first brought a big band
from Yorkshire to play at local salles des
fêtes in the area. In 1996, his daughter Sally,
a talented singer, went to Leeds University to
study French. She joined the University
Union Dance Band and soon persuaded them
to visit the Lot-et-Garonne. They were so
well received that they decided to return year
after year. Sally continued singing with the
band after she graduated, and for several
years organised their annual Easter tour of
the region.
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
Bernard Mariette
resigned from his
position as President
of Quiksilver Inc. on
February 12.
The company announced
that the CEO and Chairman
of the Board, Robert
McKnight, would resuming
his previous role and replace
Mariette immediately.
Quiksilver is the world’s
leading outdoor sports
lifestyle company. Since
2001 it has almost
quadrupled in size and these
days its products are sold in
more than 90 countries in
both their own ‘Boardriders
Club’ shops and other
selected retail outlets. The
company’s European
headquarters are in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz and
Saint-Jean-de-Morains.
For more than 15 years,
Mariette had been a key
player within the Quiksilver
group, taking Quicksilver
Europe from its development
stage in 1994 and growing it
to a €250 million business by
2001, when he became
company chairman.
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
The whole project has been fraught with contradictions,
allegations and counter-allegations.
For example, it was claimed at the meeting, and later
reported in ‘Sud-Ouest’, that the Brooker-Careys have not
discussed the project with either the International
Automobile Federation (FIA) or its French equivalent, the
FFSA. No FIA-licenced race (which covers almost anything
from Formula One to go-karting to truckracing to historics)
can be run on a track built in France until the track gains
approval from the FFSA.
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