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Today, Libé has a new benefactor in the form of Edouard de Rothschild, and a new unstarry-eyed editor, Laurent Joffrin. The paper flirted briefly with break-even in 2007 and it's trying to find a way to go post-ideological, sort of. The Net, conferences, French open-shirted philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy shilling with advertisers - the new Libé will try almost anything. Joffrin even invited Carla Bruni, wife of France's rightist President Nicolas Sarkozy, to serve as celebrity editor for a day, but that was a step too far and Joffrin was forced...
...Paris Conn to Sonar: Ouch French and British authorities admitted on Feb. 16 that two nuclear submarines, Le Triomphant and H.M.S. Vanguard, collided in early February while deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Though neither vessel was damaged enough to leak radiation or sink along with their approximately 32 combined nuclear missiles, the incident raised concerns over the European neighbors' lack of naval coordination...
Although most knights exist only in fairy tales, Harvard Squares’ Raymond E. Ost, chef and co-owner of Sandrine’s Bistro, was knighted yesterday with the medal of the French Order of the Mérite Agricole. Boston’s Consul General of France, Francois Gauthier, presented Ost with the honor in Gauthier’s Cambridge home. The French government award recognized Ost’s culinary career, which spans nearly four decades. It also honored his promotion of French cuisine and his use of local ingredients in his dishes. Gauthier indicated that approximately...
...deep research, held trials, updated text books, and even uncovered troubling wartime information on public figures - late President François Mitterrand for one. I'd like school teachers around the U.S. to be able to teach American responsibility for slavery and the mistreatment of Native Americans the way French educators do their own war-time history. Alas, if they did that here, most would get fired...
...nude tucked away nearby; on the other side of the broad rectangular room, where Renaissance objects of bronze and silver intermingle with sumptuous art-deco furniture, an elaborate cubist Picasso masterpiece - Instruments de musique sur un guéridon, 1914 - hangs above a Cézanne watercolor of a French landscape, which hangs over a sleek, black bookcase hosting a perfect little female portrait by the 19th-century master Ingres...