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France's crisis of national identity
Algiers :: Algeria | 4 days ago
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Just before the France-Ireland football match in Paris, I met my charming, gentle, retired, 60-something, French neighbour on the stairs of our Paris apartment building. "No," he said. "I'm not watching the match...The team disgusts me because they are...
Tags: France-Ireland, Brown-White-Black France, Mr Sarkozy, Thierry Henry, French, Greater Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy, frenchness kids, world cup, black frenchness, Algeria, Algiers, France, Politics of France, Government of Andorra, Presidents of France, Grand Croix of the Lￃﾩgion d'honneur, Social Issues, Jacques Chirac, French people
Twilight of France's Republican aristocracy
Paris :: France | 8 days ago
Credibility No tumbrels have appeared in Paris' Place de la Concorde, but a revolution may be under way in France nonetheless. Recent weeks have seen the trial of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and the conviction of former Defense Minister Charles Pasqua....
Tags: France, French Republic, Jean Sarkozy, Young Sarkozy, Nicolas Sarkozy, Frederic Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, Paris
French town cannot let bookstore die
Washington :: DC :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Over the generations, residents said, it has become part of the landscape, a place where children tarry on the way home from school and their parents duck in to pick up the latest novel. That's why, when the shop looked as if it would have to close this...
Tags: France, Nicolas Sarkozy, French, Washington, Hungarian nobility, Jacques Chirac, French people, Government of Andorra, Presidents of France, Grand Croix of the Lￃﾩgion d'honneur
Eastwood receives French honour
Paris :: France | 16 days ago
Credibility French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented the 79-year-old actor and director with the decoration for his contribution to cinema. Eastwood said receiving the accolade was a "wonderful honour" and a "great pleasure" for him. "I love France. I love movies,...
Tags: Clint Eastwood, Clinton Eastwood, Nicolas Sarkozy, president nicolas, France, French, American, delight audiences, Paris, Hungarian nobility, Million Dollar Baby, Lￃﾩgion d'honneur, Jacques Chirac, Government of Andorra, Presidents of France, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Monterey California, Salinas, Monterey County California, Year of birth missing, American film directors, Law Crime, Unforgiven, Joel Cox, ￃﾉlysￃﾩe Palace, Grand Croix of the Lￃﾩgion d'honneur, Politics
Ex-French minister links Chirac to arms scandal
Paris :: France | 17 days ago
Credibility The 27-year war ended with Savimbi's battlefield death in 2002. Pasqua, who is facing charges in several unrelated corruption cases, rejected the Angolagate ruling, calling it "a judgment which I find scandalous and which I don't accept." He has appealed...
Tags: Jacques Chirac, Charles Pasqua, Chirac Knew, France, Paris, ￃﾉdouard Balladur, Politics of France, Dominique de Villepin, Hervￃﾩ de Charette, Pasqua, Government of Andorra, Politics, French political scandals, Angolagate, Presidents of France, War Conflict, Hungarian nobility, Nicolas Sarkozy, Franￃﾧois Mitterrand, Grand Croix of the Lￃﾩgion d'honneur, UNITA, Cold War
Chirac goes on the offensive over corruption trial
Paris :: France | 24 days ago
Credibility Former French President Jacques Chirac vigorously defended himself against corruption charges Thursday, saying he was proud of his record as Paris mayor and would clear his name at trial. During a round of interviews to promote his newly released memoirs,...
Jacques Chirac says in memoirs he was a big admirer of Thatcher
London :: United Kingdom | 25 days ago
Credibility Jacques Chirac, the former President, says in his memoirs that he was a big admirer of the “Iron Lady”, and that their friendship in the late-1980s made President Mitterrand envious. According to Mr Chirac, Prime Minister under Mitterrand, the British...
Tags: Jacques Chirac, Mr Chirac
French ex-president Chirac releases first memoir
Paris :: France | 25 days ago
Credibility French lawsuit-fastened ex-president Jacques Chirac released his memoir Tuesday, narrating his life and political career up to 1995 when he began the 12-year rule over France. The memoir, "Every Step Should Be a Goal", a 500-page book, was the first...
Tags: Jacques Chirac, France, stand trial, Paris City Hall, presidency jacques
France’s Chirac Ordered to Face Trial
Paris :: France | about 1 month ago
Credibility A French magistrate has ordered former President Jacques Chirac to stand trial on embezzlement charges dating back to his time as mayor of Paris, in an unprecedented move against a former French head of state, Chirac's office said. The retired Chirac,...
Tags: Jacques Chirac, Mr Chirac, Mr. Chirac, Chirac Ordered, French, stand trial, Paris, president jacques, allegation corruption, embezzling charged
Chirac banishes 'dejected' dog
Paris :: France | about 1 month ago
Credibility To lose the trappings and status of high office can be deeply distressing, even if you were once just the First Dog. Sumo, a tiny, cuddly-looking Maltese bichon belonging to the former president Jacques Chirac and his wife Bernadette, has never recovered...
Tags: Elysee, Bernadette, Jacques Chirac
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