Last night I watched "Mesrine", the 4 hour film on the life of the notorious French gangster of the 60s and 70s, Jacques Mesrine. It was very good, but not great, suffering from some of the problems many bio-pic faces, primarily the need to stuff...
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From the "We are presenting a united front on Greek auster... wait, France? What the fuck are you doing?" file: German industry and politicians have attacked a proposed French warship.
Gilles Savary's* entry is a strong early candidate for the worst possible commentary on the DSK case, via Gopnik: To tell the truth, everybody knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a.
And so we have the season 13 premiere of Law and Order: SVU: The head of the International Monetary Fund was removed from a Paris-bound flight in New York minutes before takeoff Saturday afternoon and was arrested in connection with a sexual assault on a...
Gbago gone: Forces of president-elect Alassane Ouattara arrested outoing President Laurent Gbagbo at his residence in Abidjan on Monday, after an assault on the compound that involved French and U.N..
I have a short article up at World Politics Review about the sale of the French Mistrals to Russia: France's decision to negotiate the sale of four Mistral-class Amphibious Transport.
Like any good traitorous socialist lefty, I am supposed to treat European culture and politics as decidedly superior to the American alternative. And I often do! But on the subject of libel laws, it seems quite clear to me that Americans have a much more...
I've always found the approach to religious neutrality employed by (amongst many other countries) France, which includes a ban on religious headscarves in public schools, to be deeply misguided and.
The Russian Navy is buying a French Mistral class amphibious assault ship. Exciting.
France has acknowledged that it will no longer deploy nuclear weapons on board the Charles De Gaulle, at least under normal circumstances:France no longer deploys nuclear weapons on its aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle under normal circumstances but stores the weapons on land, according to...
Jacques Chirac, apparently:The former first lady turns to deliver her husband a withering look, before continuing with her speech.In a book in 2001, Mrs Chirac spoke about the difficulties of.
...to go after a fraudulent religion just because it comes from the United States:The Church of Scientology's French branch went on trial on Monday on charges of organised fraud, in.