Sad news. The Sarkozy régime has reduced French culture to “Who’s the Boss?” remakes.
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Outrageous country decadence in this meeting between Bretons and Occitans. Mostly this video is great because of the shots of aligot being prepared on a mass-scale, but note also the “Gâteau à la broche,” or “Šakotis,” as I know it. Now I’…
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Paris is still totally safe to bike in, if you stick to the streets (or street-grade bike lanes). The non-street bike lanes, usually carved out of sidewalk, can be rather dangerous, as I slipped leftward curving on these cobblestones today going at top…
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“Il était un petit navire” is the hit Megan teaches the Draperinos. Clearly, it passes the one truth test of all Western kids’ songs by being either about Jesus or about death.
In my family, we were content with “Frère Jacques” in the chans…
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Members of the CGT sing “L’Internationale” during the French general strike on 12 October.
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Comedy brilliance what relates to rules and regulations in Breton schools. The merging of “de parler bréton et de cracher à terre” into one rule is just straight up genius. The actual article from Rue89 isn’t terribly fascinating, but it does f…
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Notre Dame + full moon. Right place, meet right time.
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No, this is not a dream gournal. And this may seem as too clever by half, but I promise that my subconscious brewed it up in between snooze taps this morning. I was hanging out with someone who needed to fill out a form (in France), but he was functionally illiterate and does not know [...]
When I came to the center yesterday, it was clear that I had rolled in via Vélib’. “Be careful tomorrow with Vélib’,” one instructor warned me, because today’s general strike will make the bicycles extremely valuable. With at least the RER B scheduled to be out of commission, it’s entirely possible that I would have [...]
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When the Awl complains that this has been a miserable American summer, they’re mostly right, but it hasn’t been exactly a great summer in France, either. Sarkozy has decided to kick off the 2012 presidential campaign extra early by re-burnishing his xenophobic credentials, angling to get the support of the far-right Front National types–the very [...]
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