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French mother to sue couple who filmed drunk son before he drowned
Sylvie Zecca accuses pair of breaking law requiring people to help anyone in danger, after they let teenager walk away
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The Fall of France
It’s a stretch, but what is happening today in France is being compared to the revocation of 1685. In that year, Louis XIV, the Sun King who built the Palace of Versailles, revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had protected French Protestants – the Huguenots. Trying to unite his kingdom by a common religion, the king closed churches and persecuted the Huguenots. As a result, nearly 700,000 of them fled France, seeking asylum in England, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa and other countries.
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Angry workers use tires to barricade bosses inside Goodyear factory in France
Disgruntled workers at a Goodyear factory in northern France detained two of their bosses Monday by barricading a meeting room door with a large tire, their union said. The incident is the latest in a series of flare-ups since the Ohio-based tire giant said last year that it planned to close the 1,250-worker plant in Amiens by the end of 2014. So-called "boss-napping" became rampant in France in 2009 at the height of the economic meltdown, although the practice has since tapered off.
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Gallic uproar over 'Fall of France' Newsweek article
Newsweek article ignites media storm in France over claims country is being choked by sky-high taxes and prices, costly perks such as free nappies for mothers
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France fines Google over data privacy
France’s data protection watchdog has fined Google 150,000 euros after the U.S. search engine
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French President Francois Hollande having affair with actor Julie Gayet
A FRENCH magazine claims President Francois Hollande is having an affair with actress Julie Gayet and says it has photographs to back its story. The website of weekly tabloid Closer said its Friday print edition would feature seven pages of revelations and pictures on the 59-year-old President's alleged relationship with Gayet.
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The ‘Anti-Amazon Law’ Is About To Become A Reality In France, But It’s Not A Bad Thing
The cultural exception strikes again — France’s National Assembly will most probably pass the so-called ‘anti-Amazon’ law in the coming days. In a few months, Amazon won’t be able to offer free shipping for books in order to protect independent bookstores. It’s a logical evolution of the Lang Law.
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How American is the French President's Affair?
In the 1988 movie “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” Steve Martin’s character tries to talk his way out of a French jail by claiming that was framed by a jealous woman. “She caught me with another woman,” he says. “C’mon, you’re French, you understand that!” The police inspector, unimpressed, replies, “To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.”
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Angry Ryanair passengers revolt and ‘pillage’ aircraft
Scores of angry passengers on a Ryanair flight from Morocco to Paris “took the plane hostage” after a five-hour delay and a diversion to Nantes in western France, where they had to spend a night. According to French daily Metronews, the plane, carrying 170 people on January 11,was forced to drop off a sick passenger in Madrid en route to Paris.
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Broke French crime reporter turns to hold ups
There was good news and bad news for a crime reporter at a French newspaper this week. On the plus side there was a good story about an armed robber being snared by police, but on the downside, the suspect turned out to be his predecessor on the crime desk.
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British art collector sends painting to France to determine authenticity: French committee decides to burn it
When British collector Martin Lang submitted one of his paintings to a French committee, he was hoping to find out if it was an authentic work by Marc Chagall. But not only did the Chagall Committee declare the painting a forgery, it said Lang’s painting should be burned under strict French laws that protect artists’ works.
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French inmate freed after fax runs out of ink
A suspect in the 2011 lynching of a young DJ in a Paris suburb has been released because a fax machine ran out of ink, prosecutors confirmed on Thursday. The man was reportedly freed because staff at a Paris court of appeal were unable to read a fax containing his appeal before the legal deadline expired.
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Rock strike kills two on Alps train
Two people were killed when a falling boulder derailed a tourist train in the southern French Alps, local officials and firefighters say.
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The French way of cancer treatment
The French healthcare was not just first rate -- it was humane. Rather than fighting with insurance, all our energy could be spent on one thing: caring for my father.
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Protest against new airport for west of France turns violent
Violence erupted when about 20,000 people demonstrated against an airport project near the city of Nantes on Saturday, leaving six riot police officers injured. Environmental activists have been protesting for more than a year against the government's plan to build a new airport for the west of the country, with some activists occupying the area by living rough in makeshift wooden cabins.
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Microsoft Is Interested In Buying Stake In Dailymotion
Orange CEO Stéphane Richard talked with BFM Business at the Mobile World Congress about Dailymotion — as a reminder, the YouTube competitor is fully owned by Orange. The French telecom company would retain a majority stake. “We are still talking with a major American partner in particular,” Richard said. Then he dropped the name of this potential partner. “With Microsoft indeed. It doesn’t mean that we will reach an agreement but I’m confident that we will.”
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21,000 Birds Killed In France By Winter Storms
France has not seen a bird "slaughter" this large since 1900.
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Paris Offers Free Public Transportation This Weekend to Reduce Smog
Authorities in Paris have decided to take a rare step of making public transportation free for three days to reduce smog caused by unusually warm weather.
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Western Europe's Mild March Has Led to an Air Quality Crisis in France
Take public transport in Paris this weekend, and it will cost you nothing at all. Last night, the President of the Île-de-France region announced that, as of 5:30 this morning, the entire Paris regional network would run free of charge until at least Sunday evening. The move comes not from a sudden enthusiasm for greener forms of transport, but because air pollution across France is currently at appallingly high levels.
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Today, Paris's Air Pollution Is Worse Than Beijing
When you think of polluted cities, the Chinese capital probably springs to mind above all others—and with good reason, given the record-breaking levels of lung-killing smog. But in the past few days, another city is competing with Beijing when it comes to air pollution: Paris.
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