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...Given the level of opposition, critics are puzzled by the government's quick approval of the renovations in June. Earlier this year, former Culture Minister Christine Albanel defended the plans, saying "the Hôtel Lambert is not a museum that is being transformed into a home. It was already a home. The renovations will be done according to the rule book." But art historian Didier Rykner believes that France's "political and diplomatic" objectives may have come into play. Since last year, President Nicolas Sarkozy has been trying to win multibillion-dollar energy deals with Qatar and new investment...
...comes Chirac's poll triumph. Little wonder Sarkozy-backers are feeling catty. Culture Minister Christine Albanel sought to explain away Chirac's rising poll numbers and Sarkozy's dropping appeal by saying that the former president "was always very likeable, and today is rather a grandfather figure for everyone". Conservative senator Philippe Marini, meanwhile, noted that "people are always looking back to paradise lost, even if it never was paradise." Hissss...
...draft law, currently being debated in the parliament, would create a new Internet surveillance system to combat online piracy - one that critics call a Big Brother-like attempt to police people's Web activity. Introduced by Sarkozy's Culture Minister, Christine Albanel, the bill seeks to enlist Internet service providers (ISPs), entertainment-industry organizations and French legal authorities in an effort to identify and dissuade illegal downloading of copyrighted music and video. A monitoring agency would send Web users who illegally download media a cease and desist notice. Should two warnings go unheeded, ISPs would be forced...
...urgent to get out of this situation that's as dangerous for Internet users as it is dramatic for French cultural creators and industries," Albanel told parliament. The bill, she says, is needed to defend France's "cultural exception." It's "also a realistic project that of course does not claim it will completely eradicate the mass phenomenon of pirating cultural works on the Internet...
...Should Albanel's plan succeed in creating a new generation of French collectors eager to keep France's modern art works at home,in some cases literally,the nation just may snatch its third place spot back from China. And if they can do that, perhaps French officials can come up with an equally efficient policy for getting the foreign-owned photos of their under-dressed First Lady back under domestic wraps...