<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081</id><updated>2012-01-25T12:29:40.999-08:00</updated><title type='text'>FRANCAIS AVEC MONSIEUR CALDWELL</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>114</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-6230191554825564261</id><published>2012-01-25T12:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T12:29:41.008-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"The Artist" Rafle Dix Nominations aux Oscars</title><content type='html'>de France24&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir gagné un Golden Globe, Jean Dujardin est nommé aux Oscars dans la catégorie "meilleur acteur" pour le film muet "The Artist" de Michel Hazanavicius. Pour cette 84e cérémonie des Oscars, le film français est nominé dans dix catégories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/france-2"&gt;France 2&lt;/a&gt; (vidéo)&lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/depeche"&gt;Dépêche&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20120116-the-artist-petit-film-francais-devenu-grand-a-hollywood-golden-globes-dujardin-noir-blanc-muet-cinema-oscars"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="img-picto-medium-play" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20120116-the-artist-petit-film-francais-devenu-grand-a-hollywood-golden-globes-dujardin-noir-blanc-muet-cinema-oscars"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CINÉMA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20120116-the-artist-petit-film-francais-devenu-grand-a-hollywood-golden-globes-dujardin-noir-blanc-muet-cinema-oscars"&gt;"The Artist", petit film français devenu grand à Hollywood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFP - Le film français muet "The Artist" a récolté mardi à Los Angeles une moisson historique de 10 nominations aux Oscars, notamment dans les catégories reines de meilleur film et meilleur acteur, seulement devancé par "Hugo Cabret" de Martin Scorsese, nommé 11 fois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après ses trois trophées aux Golden Globes, le film muet en noir et blanc écrit et réalisé par Michel Hazanavicius concourra pour les statuettes de meilleur film, scénario original, réalisation, acteur (Jean Dujardin), second rôle féminin (Bérénice Bejo), musique (Ludovic Bource), montage, costumes, photographie et décors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"C'est d'abord un privilège, un honneur", a réagi Michel Hazanavicius. "Ca ressemble à un conte de fée pour ce film perçu au départ comme un film handicapé, sourd-muet, un vilain petit canard".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aucun film français n'a amassé autant de nominations dans l'histoire des Oscars, qui se tiendront à Hollywood, au Kodak Theater le 26 février.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Je ne sais plus quoi dire, je ne pensais pas qu'on en aurait autant...", a déclaré Jean Dujardin. "Dix nominations, c'est historique".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Artist" raconte l'histoire de George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), une star du muet sombrant dans l'oubli faute d'avoir embrassé l'avènement du cinéma parlant, et le destin contraire de la jeune actrice Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), l'une de ses admiratrices à la gloire irrésistible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;allez au site &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20120124-cinema-oscars-hollywood-the-artist-jean-dujardin-nominations-categorie-meilleur-acteur"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20120124-cinema-oscars-hollywood-the-artist-jean-dujardin-nominations-categorie-meilleur-acteur&lt;/a&gt; pour lire l'article entier avec des vidéos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-6230191554825564261?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/6230191554825564261/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=6230191554825564261' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6230191554825564261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6230191554825564261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2012/01/artist-rafle-dix-nominations-aux-oscars.html' title='&quot;The Artist&quot; Rafle Dix Nominations aux Oscars'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-6625314980696942332</id><published>2011-12-16T11:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T11:51:06.848-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Les Candidats Républicains Ont Débattu une Dernière Fois Avant les Primaires</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;de France 24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"    style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.france24.com/fr/files_fr/imagecache/france24_169_large/article/image/republicains.jpg" alt="Les &amp;lt;span class=" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"    style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;h2 class="article-header-intro" style="padding-top: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; width: 273px; "&gt;Jeudi, aux États-Unis, les candidats à l'investiture républicaine ont débattu une dernière fois avant les primaires. Newt Gingrich, favori, a été la cible des critiques de ses rivaux, notamment à propos de son lobbying dans l'immobilier.&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="line-height: 24px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="line-height: normal;  font-size:medium;color:#ffff99;" &gt;&lt;div class="article-header" style="overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; display: block; "&gt;&lt;div class="article-header-infos" style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "&gt;&lt;div class="article-header-intro-credits" style="margin-top: 10px; font-size: 12px; "&gt;Par &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/depeche" class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" style="text-decoration: none; "&gt;Dépêche&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blaster" style="clear: both; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1px; line-height: 0px; height: 0px; "&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="article-main"&gt;&lt;div class="article-main-text" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: normal; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AFP - &lt;/strong&gt;Newt Gingrich, le favori de la course à l'investiture républicaine pour affronter Barack Obama en 2012, a été jeudi au centre des critiques de plusieurs de ses rivaux qui lui ont reproché d'avoir fait du lobbying pour le géant du financement immobilier Freddie Mac.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La représentante Michel Bachmann a accusé Newt Gingrich d'avoir "perçu 1,6 million de dollars afin d'influencer des élus pour maintenir l'entourloupe", en faisant référence à l'argent que M. Gingrich a perçu de Freddie Mac, le géant du financement immobilier renfloué à coups de milliards par l'Etat au plus fort de la crise de 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Nous savons qu'il a touché des chèques de Freddie Mac, (...) plus d'1,6 million de dollars", a-t-elle insisté lors d'un débat organisé à Sioux City dans l'Iowa (centre) et retransmis par la chaîne Fox News.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La candidate ultraconservatrice a reproché à M. Gingrich de s'être livré à un "trafic d'influence en direction de responsables républicains à Washington".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Le Texan Ron Paul s'en est également pris aux activités de Gingrich liées à Freddie Mac, en expliquant que ce type de structures qui mêlent privé et public sont "ce qu'il y a de pire en matière d'économie".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Certains disent même que cela mène aux extrêmes, au fascisme, parce que les grandes entreprises et le gouvernement finissent par se confondre", a-t-il dit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Après les attaques de ses rivaux, Newt Gingrich a assuré: "Je n'ai jamais été lobbyiste quelles que soient les circonstances. (...) Je n'ai jamais changé d'opinion en raison d'une quelconque somme d'argent", a-t-il dit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A l'époque, "j'étais une figure nationale (...) qui menait différentes activités, comme écrire des best-sellers, prononcer des discours", a-t-il expliqué. "J'ai choisi de ne travailler qu'avec des gens dont je partageais les valeurs", a-t-il affirmé, ajoutant que "faire en sorte que les gens puissent s'acheter une maison" était une valeur "cardinale en Amérique".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Newt Gingrich a été mis en cause durant la campagne pour avoir touché 1,6 million de dollars de Freddie Mac. L'intéressé assure qu'il n'a fait que facturer "des conseils stratégiques" à l'entreprise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Il s'agissait du dernier grand débat républicain avant le début des primaires dans l'Iowa. L'organisation de caucus le 3 janvier dans cet Etat du centre marquera la toute première consultation dans le long processus mené Etat par Etat, qui s'étendra jusqu'à l'été, pour désigner un candidat républicain en vue d'affronter le président Barack Obama le 6 novembre 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="line-height: 24px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:17px;color:#ffff99;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);   line-height: 24px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-6625314980696942332?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/6625314980696942332/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=6625314980696942332' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6625314980696942332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6625314980696942332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/12/les-candidats-republicains-ont-debattu.html' title='Les Candidats Républicains Ont Débattu une Dernière Fois Avant les Primaires'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7519042096250213896</id><published>2011-12-01T13:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T13:56:32.878-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Ne Baisse Pas la Garde Contre le Sida</title><content type='html'>de Voilà.fr - Personnalités - 01/12/11 13:01&lt;br /&gt;Le 1er décembre, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy était l'invitée de &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/personnalites/nikos-aliagas-personnalite.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/pers/nikos-aliagas.json"&gt;Nikos Aliagas&lt;/a&gt; sur &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/europe-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/europe.json"&gt;Europe&lt;/a&gt; 1, à l'occasion de la Journée mondiale contre le sida. La première dame de &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/france-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/france.json"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt; est en effet ambassadrice du Fonds mondial de lutte contre le sida, depuis le 1er décembre 2008. C'est une cause qui lui tient particulièrement à coeur car son frère Virginio est décédé le 4 juillet 2006 de cette maladie. C'est aussi un virus qu'elle a connu dans son ancien métier : "Lorsque j'étais encore mannequin, le monde de la mode a été vraiment touché", explique-t-elle. De quoi donner envie à l'épouse du président français de se battre sans relâche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Au micro de l'animateur, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy a donc évoqué cette maladie qui ne cesse de progresser insidieusement : "En &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/france-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/france.json"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt;, on estime quand même que 50 000 personnes ignorent qu'elles sont porteuses du VIH. C'est incroyable. Donc, il ne faut pas baisser la garde devant ce virus," explique-t-elle. Pour Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, cette journée de sensibilisation "est l'occasion de réveiller les consciences, de se rappeler que beaucoup de progrès ont été accomplis mais qu'il reste encore beaucoup à faire. Il faut rester alerté, rester attentif et dire aux jeunes de se protéger, de se faire dépister". Elle souhaite aussi vivement "banaliser les dépistages".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce que l'épouse de &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/personnalites/nicolas-sarkozy-personnalite.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/pers/nicolas-sarkozy.json"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt; souhaite aussi, c'est limiter la transmission de la mère à l'enfant. La maman d'Aurélien, 10 ans, et d'une petite Giulia, souhaite changer les mentalités : "Les femmes, notamment en &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/afrique-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/afrique.json"&gt;Afrique&lt;/a&gt; et en &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/inde-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/inde.json"&gt;Inde&lt;/a&gt;, ne sont pas informées, elles ont peur de se faire dépister, peur de prendre le traitement, peur d'être mises au ban de leur famille. Il faut dédiaboliser cette maladie dans les mentalités".(Photo © BestImage)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7519042096250213896?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7519042096250213896/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7519042096250213896' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7519042096250213896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7519042096250213896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/12/carla-bruni-sarkozy-ne-baisse-pas-la.html' title='Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Ne Baisse Pas la Garde Contre le Sida'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-255369561322343015</id><published>2011-10-16T09:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T09:47:57.054-07:00</updated><title type='text'>À New York, les Indignés de Wall Street Seront Délogés Ultérieurement</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--dA4mGJ8RFI/TpsJHNv2_UI/AAAAAAAAAEs/e2Clf2MT5kQ/s1600/wall-street_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664130975902661954" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--dA4mGJ8RFI/TpsJHNv2_UI/AAAAAAAAAEs/e2Clf2MT5kQ/s320/wall-street_0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; La mairie de New York a annoncé que le nettoyage du parc, qu'occupent des centaines de manifestants, au cœur du quartier financier a été reporté. Depuis quatre semaines les indignés protestent contre les effets de la crise économique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/depeche"&gt;Dépêche&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFP - Les manifestants anti-Wall Street de New York ont obtenu vendredi une "victoire", la mairie annonçant un report du nettoyage du square qu'ils occupent depuis le 17 septembre au coeur du quartier financier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La mairie de New York a précisé dans un communiqué que le propriétaire du square Zuccotti "reportait le nettoyage du parc" prévu vendredi, ce qui a suscité une immense clameur parmi les milliers de manifestants et sympathisants réunis tôt vendredi dans le parc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"C'est une victoire pour nous", a déclaré à l'AFP Senia Barragan, une porte-parole du mouvement, ajoutant que "Occupy Wall Street" allait maintenant réfléchir "à la suite".&lt;br /&gt;Des cris de joie ont fusé dans le parc, où certains manifestants avaient passé la nuit à nettoyer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Les gens unis, ne seront jamais vaincus", scandait la foule qui a applaudi à tout rompre l'annonce du report des opérations de nettoyage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ce n'est que temporaire", a cependant souligné une manifestante qui n'avait pas dormi de la nuit, Zora Gusso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeudi soir, Occupy wall Street (OWS) avait lancé sur son site internet un "appel urgent à agir pour éviter la fermeture forcée" du campement. "Rejoignez-nous à 06h00 vendredi, pour une défense non violente à l'expulsion", avait écrit le mouvement, qui depuis quatre semaines dénonce la cupidité de Wall Street et la corruption des 1% les plus riches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vendredi matin, des milliers de personnes, dont des militants syndicaux avaient convergé vers le square, au coeur du quartier financier de Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le square était entouré de barrières, la police présente mais discrète.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Policiers, ne préféreriez vous pas arrêter un banquier? ", pouvait-on lire sur une pancarte. "Liberté de rassemblement", affirmait une autre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le propriétaire du square Zuccotti, Brookfield property, avait fait savoir jeudi qu'il allait nettoyer le square à partir de 07h00 vendredi , et demandé qu'en soit retiré tout ce qui y a été amassé depuis le 17 septembre par les manifestants qui dorment sur place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le commissaire de police de New York Ray Kelly avait précisé qu'une fois le nettoyage terminé -- prévu pour durer toute la journée de vendredi -- les manifestants pourraient y revenir, mais dans le respect du règlement de ce parc privé mais ouvert au public, c'est à dire "sans les sacs de couchage".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les manifestants qui dorment en plein air avaient dénoncé une manoeuvre pour mettre fin à leur mouvement.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-255369561322343015?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/255369561322343015/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=255369561322343015' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/255369561322343015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/255369561322343015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-york-les-indignes-de-wall-street.html' title='À New York, les Indignés de Wall Street Seront Délogés Ultérieurement'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--dA4mGJ8RFI/TpsJHNv2_UI/AAAAAAAAAEs/e2Clf2MT5kQ/s72-c/wall-street_0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-5031793906562024145</id><published>2011-09-25T09:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-25T09:50:36.142-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Le Discours d'Ahmadinejad Provoque le Départ des Délégations Occidentales</title><content type='html'>de France 24 - Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/depeche"&gt;Dépêche&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La diatribe anti-occidentale prononcée par le président iranien à la tribune des Nations unies a conduit les représentants américains ainsi que la délégation de l'Union européenne à quitter l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFP - Les délégations américaine et de l'Union européenne ont quitté jeudi la salle où se tient l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU à New York, lors du discours du président iranien Ahmadinejad qui s'est livré à une nouvelle diatribe anti-américaine et anti-occidentale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La délégation américaine est partie au moment où le président iranien a vivement condamné le rôle des Etats-Unis dans les guerres et dans la crise financière, demandant aussi aux principales puissances occidentales de payer des réparations pour l'esclavage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les délégations de l'Union européenne se sont ensuite levées à leur tour, d'un commun accord, en signe de protestation, lorsque le chef de l'Etat iranien s'en est pris aux Européens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Il s'agissait d'une position coordonnée de l'UE lorsque le président iranien a mis en cause les pays européens pour leur +soutien au sionisme+ et fait référence à l'Holocauste", a indiqué à l'AFP la mission française auprès de l'ONU, qualifiant le discours d'"inacceptable".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Si des pays européens utilisent toujours l'Holocauste après six décennies comme excuse pour payer leur amende aux Sionistes, les puissances coloniales et les esclavagistes ne devraient-ils pas payer des réparations aux nations affectées?", a déclaré M. Ahmadinejad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;allez au site &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110922-iran-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-onu-discours-diplomatie-etats-unis-union-europeenne-occident"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110922-iran-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-onu-discours-diplomatie-etats-unis-union-europeenne-occident&lt;/a&gt; pour l'article et une vidéo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-5031793906562024145?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/5031793906562024145/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=5031793906562024145' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5031793906562024145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5031793906562024145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/09/le-discours-dahmadinejad-provoque-le.html' title='Le Discours d&apos;Ahmadinejad Provoque le Départ des Délégations Occidentales'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2157634562461667639</id><published>2011-09-19T08:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-19T08:42:44.330-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Mad Men" et "Modern Family" Indétrônables aux Emmy Awards 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cecb1CA1jp8/TndhQ_QiSpI/AAAAAAAAAEk/18rNHxt4XP4/s1600/77_photo_1316408493600-1-0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654094801673538194" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cecb1CA1jp8/TndhQ_QiSpI/AAAAAAAAAEk/18rNHxt4XP4/s320/77_photo_1316408493600-1-0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; "&lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/organisations/mad-organisation.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/org/mad.json"&gt;Mad&lt;/a&gt; Men" et "Modern Family" ont confirmé dimanche qu'ils étaient les rois incontestés de la télévision américaine, en remportant cette année encore les prestigieux Emmys Awards des meilleures séries dramatique et comique, remis à Los Angeles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/organisations/mad-organisation.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/org/mad.json"&gt;Mad&lt;/a&gt; Men" (diffusée sur la chaîne câblée AMC), dont c'est la quatrième victoire consécutive -- un trophée pour chacune de ses saisons -- a néanmoins échoué à offrir à son très populaire acteur principal &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/personnalites/jon-hamm-personnalite.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/pers/jon-hamm.json"&gt;Jon Hamm&lt;/a&gt; l'Emmy du meilleur acteur dramatique, qui est allé à Kyle &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/chandler-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/chandler.json"&gt;Chandler&lt;/a&gt; pour "Friday Night Lights", une série sur les aventures d'une équipe de football texane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La victoire pour la deuxième année consécutive de "Modern Family" (ABC) dans la catégorie "comédie" était dans l'air après un démarrage en fanfare, qui a vu la série remporter les quatre premiers trophée de la soirée (seconds rôles comiques féminin et masculin, réalisation et scénario).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Côté comique, &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/personnalites/jim-parsons-personnalite.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/pers/jim-parsons.json"&gt;Jim Parsons&lt;/a&gt; a remporté son deuxième Emmy consécutif de meilleur acteur pour "The Big Bang Theory", tandis que Melissa McCarthy a été désignée meilleure actrice pour "Mike &amp;amp; Molly".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le grand perdant de la soirée est sans conteste "Mildred Pierce" &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/organisations/hbo-organisation.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/org/hbo.json"&gt;HBO&lt;/a&gt;) de Todd Haynes, favori dans la catégorie des mini-séries, mais qui a dû s'incliner devant "Downtown Abbey" (PBS) et son portrait d'une famille britannique avant la première guerre mondiale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meilleure mini-série de l'année, "Downtown Abbey" est aussi reparti avec les Emmys du scénario, du second rôle féminin et de la meilleure réalisation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Mildred Pierce" et son portrait de mère courage pendant la Grande Dépression a offert à la Britannique &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/personnalites/kate-winslet-personnalite.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/pers/kate-winslet.json"&gt;Kate Winslet&lt;/a&gt; le trophée de la meilleure actrice dans une mini-série, une distinction qu'elle a dédiée à sa mère.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Retransmise depuis le Nokia Theater à &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/los-angeles-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/los-angeles.json"&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt;, la cérémonie, animée par &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/personnalites/jane-lynch-personnalite.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/pers/jane-lynch.json"&gt;Jane Lynch&lt;/a&gt;, l'une des stars de la série musicale "Glee", avait débuté avec un petit film musical empreint d'ironie, à la gloire de la télévision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"La télévision est un monde merveilleux, le royaume de la joie. Il n'y a rien comme la télévision", a chanté &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/personnalites/jane-lynch-personnalite.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/pers/jane-lynch.json"&gt;Jane Lynch&lt;/a&gt; sur une musique de conte de fées, en traversant les plateaux de plusieurs séries populaires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'une des surprises de la soirée a été l'apparition surprise de l'acteur américain &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/personnalites/charlie-sheen-personnalite.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/pers/charlie-sheen.json"&gt;Charlie Sheen&lt;/a&gt;, débarqué de la série "Mon oncle Charlie" en début d'année après avoir copieusement insulté son producteur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Je veux prendre un moment pour dire quelque chose qui me vient du coeur à tous les gens ici qui travaillent sur +Mon Oncle Charlie+", a-t-il déclaré dans un évident signe d'apaisement, après ses mutliples frasques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;allez au site - &lt;a href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/culture/2011/09/19/mad-men-et-modern-family-indetronables-aux-emmy-awards-2011_131451.html"&gt;http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/culture/2011/09/19/mad-men-et-modern-family-indetronables-aux-emmy-awards-2011_131451.html&lt;/a&gt; - pour lire l'article entier&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2157634562461667639?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2157634562461667639/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2157634562461667639' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2157634562461667639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2157634562461667639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/09/mad-men-et-modern-family-indetronables.html' title='&quot;Mad Men&quot; et &quot;Modern Family&quot; Indétrônables aux Emmy Awards 2011'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cecb1CA1jp8/TndhQ_QiSpI/AAAAAAAAAEk/18rNHxt4XP4/s72-c/77_photo_1316408493600-1-0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-3633687278580805507</id><published>2011-09-13T15:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-13T15:11:07.022-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Plus de 46 Millions d'Américains Vivaient "dans la Pauvreté" en 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V98SLlq4ync/Tm_TVuGfKGI/AAAAAAAAAEc/4bY_CkZ7iFI/s1600/US_poverty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5651968427479214178" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V98SLlq4ync/Tm_TVuGfKGI/AAAAAAAAAEc/4bY_CkZ7iFI/s320/US_poverty.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; de France 24 - Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/depeche"&gt;Dépêche&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus de 15 % de la population américaine vivait, en 2010, sous le seuil de pauvreté, selon un rapport annuel du Bureau du recensement. Un taux que les États-Unis n'avaient plus atteint depuis 1993.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFP - La pauvreté a fortement progressé aux Etats-Unis en 2010 sous l'effet de la persistance de la crise économique, selon des données publiées mardi par le Bureau du recensement américain, qui ne donnent qu'un aperçu partiel de la misère dans le pays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le taux de personnes vivant sous le seuil de pauvreté a grimpé de 0,8 point par rapport à 2009 pour s'établir à 15,1%, son plus haut niveau depuis 1993, indique le rapport annuel sur la pauvreté et les salaires de cette émanation du gouvernement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En termes absolus, 46,2 millions de personnes vivaient "dans la pauvreté" en 2010, ce qui correspond au plus haut niveau relevé depuis 52 ans que le Bureau du recensement publie ces chiffres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le rapport précise que le seuil de pauvreté correspondait en 2010 à un revenu annuel de 22.314 dollars (environ 16.400 euros) pour un foyer comptant quatre personnes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le taux de pauvreté ne donne toutefois qu'un aperçu partiel de la misère aux Etats-Unis: le Bureau du recensement le calcule en effet en faisant le rapport du nombre de pauvres âgés de plus de 15 ans à la population totale du pays, alors que d'autres statistiques montrent qu'un nombre croissant d'enfants dépendent de l'aide alimentaire de l'Etat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lire l'article entier au site&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110913-plus-46-millions-americains-sueil-pauvrete-2010-rapport-etats-unis-crise-economique"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110913-plus-46-millions-americains-sueil-pauvrete-2010-rapport-etats-unis-crise-economique&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-3633687278580805507?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/3633687278580805507/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=3633687278580805507' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3633687278580805507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3633687278580805507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/09/plus-de-46-millions-damericains.html' title='Plus de 46 Millions d&apos;Américains Vivaient &quot;dans la Pauvreté&quot; en 2010'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V98SLlq4ync/Tm_TVuGfKGI/AAAAAAAAAEc/4bY_CkZ7iFI/s72-c/US_poverty.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-1078766618687080884</id><published>2011-09-12T18:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-12T19:02:11.353-07:00</updated><title type='text'>11-Septembre, Qu'est-ce Qui a Changé ?</title><content type='html'>par Alain Gresh. La valise diplomatique. Dix ans après les attaques contre le World Trade Center et le Pentagone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les attaques contre les tours de New York et le Pentagone ont-elles marqué la naissance d'une ère nouvelle ? Le monde a-t-il changé de bases parce qu'une poignée de terroristes a commis un des raids les plus audacieux de l'histoire contemporaine ? A voir le nombre de publications consacrées à l'événement, on serait tenté de le croire. Et pourtant...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ces attentats ont d'abord ébranlé l'Amérique, et certains ont pu affirmer que, après la chute du mur de Berlin, on allait assister à un retour d'autant plus remarqué des Etats-Unis que leur puissance militaire est alors à nulle autre pareille : à eux seuls, ils représentent un peu moins de la moitié des dépenses d'armement dans le monde. Les rapides succès en Afghanistan et en Irak ont corroboré ces analyses. Dix ans après, « la guerre contre le terrorisme », qui visait à éradiquer toute menace, y compris celle des Etats dénoncés comme « voyous », est un échec, et la rhétorique belliciste de Washington s'est atténuée. Les Etats-Unis devraient se retirer d'Irak d'ici à la fin de l'année, laissant derrière eux un pays détruit, avec un gouvernement divisé et corrompu, qui sera plus proche de Téhéran que de Washington. En Afghanistan, malgré les déclarations lénifiantes, la montée en puissance des talibans apparaît irrésistible, tandis que le Pakistan s'enfonce dans la crise. Quant à Al-Qaida, si son chef Oussama Ben Laden et nombre de ses hauts dirigeants ont été tués, elle a essaimé au Maghreb, au Yémen, au Nigeria, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le prix de ces guerres, avant tout payé par les peuples qui en ont été les victimes, pèse aussi sur les Etats-Unis et plus largement sur l'Occident, de deux manières. Elles ont permis une remise en cause des libertés au nom de la lutte contre le terrorisme, légalisé la torture, les enlèvements, les écoutes illégales, les assassinat ciblés, etc., pratiques qui se sont étendues malgré l'élection du président Barack Obama, comme le montre le maintien du bagne de Guantanamo ou l'utilisation sans restriction de drones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le terrorisme est devenu un concept attrape-tout permettant aux Etats de justifier leur politique de répression (...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lire la suite de cet article inédit d'Alain Gresh :&lt;br /&gt;http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/carnet/2011-09-09-11-Septembre&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-1078766618687080884?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/1078766618687080884/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=1078766618687080884' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/1078766618687080884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/1078766618687080884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/09/11-septembre-quest-ce-qui-change.html' title='11-Septembre, Qu&apos;est-ce Qui a Changé ?'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-1146112630052005124</id><published>2011-08-30T06:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-30T06:43:34.596-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La côte Est Compte ses Morts Après le Passage de la Tempête Irène</title><content type='html'>de France24&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5I6edOQCJ8/Tlzn25UPs4I/AAAAAAAAAEU/DjDHpWhubgg/s1600/irene_m_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646642963100447618" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5I6edOQCJ8/Tlzn25UPs4I/AAAAAAAAAEU/DjDHpWhubgg/s320/irene_m_0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;La tempête Irène, qui déferle actuellement sur l'est du Canada, a provoqué la mort de plusieurs dizaines de personnes aux États-Unis. La Nouvelle-Angleterre et le Vermont, notamment, ont été particulièrement touchés par les intempéries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.blogger.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/depeche"&gt;Dépêche&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFP - La tempête Irene a quitté lundi les Etats-Unis pour le Canada, après avoir fait des dizaines de morts et provoqué de nombreuses inondations qui ont particulièrement affecté le Vermont, petit Etat frontalier du Canada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Il va nous falloir du temps pour nous remettre d'une tempête de cette magnitude", a déclaré le président Barack Obama. "Nous en ressentons encore les effets dans de nombreuses parties du pays, notamment en Nouvelle Angleterre et dans le Vermont, où il y a eu énormément d'inondations", a-t-il dit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selon des sources officielles et des médias locaux, au moins 38 personnes sont mortes dans 11 Etats, dont six à New-York, six dans le New Jersey et six en Caroline du Nord.&lt;br /&gt;Dans le New Jersey notamment, une automobiliste de 20 ans a été retrouvée morte, plusieurs heures après avoir appelé son petit ami et la police, pour leur dire qu'elle avait de l'eau jusqu'au cou dans sa voiture engloutie par une brusque montée des eaux sur une route du comté de Salem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans le Vermont, petit Etat rural et montagneux de 600.000 habitants, des ponts ont été emportés, des centaines de routes coupées, rendant impossible l'accès à certains villages, a constaté un correspondant de l'AFP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Nous n'avons pas vu de telles inondations dans le Vermont depuis 75 ans", a déclaré le gouverneur de l'Etat Peter Shumlin. "Les gens souffrent beaucoup".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le bourg de West Brattleboro, 3.000 habitants, ressemblait lundi à une vaste plage de sable encombrée de cailloux et de débris, après le retrait des eaux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pour lire la suite de l'article, allez au site...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110830-intemperies-etats-unis-new-york-vermont-caroline-sud-bilan-tempete-irene-ouragan"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110830-intemperies-etats-unis-new-york-vermont-caroline-sud-bilan-tempete-irene-ouragan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-1146112630052005124?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/1146112630052005124/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=1146112630052005124' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/1146112630052005124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/1146112630052005124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/08/la-cote-est-compte-ses-morts-apres-le.html' title='La côte Est Compte ses Morts Après le Passage de la Tempête Irène'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5I6edOQCJ8/Tlzn25UPs4I/AAAAAAAAAEU/DjDHpWhubgg/s72-c/irene_m_0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7495095300465534274</id><published>2011-08-30T05:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-30T05:26:43.314-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La Pauvreté Touche de Plus en Plus de Français</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FuhwazJjDfk/TlzVhb_a_BI/AAAAAAAAAEM/iDQv9mmoBi8/s1600/300811-pauvrete-m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646622803241925650" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FuhwazJjDfk/TlzVhb_a_BI/AAAAAAAAAEM/iDQv9mmoBi8/s320/300811-pauvrete-m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; de France24 - Quelque 8,2 millions de Français vivent sous le seuil de pauvreté, selon un rapport publié ce mardi par l’Insee. Un chiffre en net progression qui s'expliquerait, en partie, par la crise de 2008. Décryptage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.blogger.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/sebastian-seibt"&gt;Sébastian SEIBT&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En 2009, le France comptait 8,2 millions de pauvres, selon l’enquête sur les niveaux de vie &lt;a href="http://insee.fr/fr/themes/document.asp?ref_id=ip1365" target="_blank"&gt;publiée mardi par l'Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee)&lt;/a&gt;. Ce sont près de 340 000 personnes en plus par rapport à 2008 qui sont tombées sous le seuil de pauvreté, qui s’établit en 2009 à 954 euros mensuels, soit 60% du revenu médian français, selon l’Insee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour la première fois depuis 2005, les foyers les plus modestes ont, en outre, enregistré une baisse de leur niveau de vie contrairement à celui des 60% de Français les plus aisés qui a continué à augmenter. Un constat accablant que l’Insee met sur le compte de la crise et de l’augmentation du chômage, qui a touché plus durement les populations les plus fragiles. Des explications qui ne manquent pas de soulever quelques questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La grande méchante crise ? Nul doute qu'en France la crise économique de 2008 a eu pour effet un accroissement du nombre de personnes sans emploi. Pour preuve, entre 2003 et 2008, le taux de chômage est passé de 8,5% à 7,4% avant d’atteindre 9,1% en 2009, &lt;a href="http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&amp;amp;ref_id=NATnon03337" target="_blank"&gt;selon les chiffres de l’Insee&lt;/a&gt;. Pour autant, la crise ne peut à elle seule expliquer l’augmentation du nombre de pauvres en 2009. Les précédentes récessions que la France a traversées, à savoir les deux chocs pétroliers dans les années 70 et l’explosion de la bulle Internet en 2001, n’ont en rien été suivies par une augmentation du nombre de personnes vivant sous le seuil de pauvreté. "Les effets de cette crise sont accentués par les politiques de réduction des impôts et de gel des prestations sociales menées depuis un dizaine d’années", déplore Noam Leandri, secrétaire général de l’&lt;a href="http://www.inegalites.fr/spip.php?article270" target="_blank"&gt;Observatoire des inégalités&lt;/a&gt;, contacté par FRANCE 24.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pour lire l'artice entier, allez au site ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110830-pauvrete-rapport-insee-augmentation-niveau-vie-inegalite-france-observatoire-2009"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110830-pauvrete-rapport-insee-augmentation-niveau-vie-inegalite-france-observatoire-2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7495095300465534274?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7495095300465534274/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7495095300465534274' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7495095300465534274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7495095300465534274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/08/la-pauvrete-touche-de-plus-en-plus-de.html' title='La Pauvreté Touche de Plus en Plus de Français'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FuhwazJjDfk/TlzVhb_a_BI/AAAAAAAAAEM/iDQv9mmoBi8/s72-c/300811-pauvrete-m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-5087025273526810644</id><published>2011-08-26T08:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-26T08:08:15.361-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Le dauphin Tim Cook Prend la Place du Maître Steve Jobs</title><content type='html'>de France 24 - Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.blogger.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/lizzie-treu"&gt;Lizzie TREU&lt;/a&gt; (vidéo)&lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.blogger.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/sebastian-seibt"&gt;Sébastian SEIBT&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après la démission de Steve Jobs pour raison de santé, Tim Cook, directeur opérationnel, a été nommé, mercredi, à la tête d’Apple. Le nouveau PDG de l’entreprise demeure largement méconnu du grand public. Portrait&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Succéder à Steve Jobs : la tâche est ardue tant le nom d’Apple semble indissociable de celui de son co-fondateur. Tim Cook a &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/08/24Steve-Jobs-Resigns-as-CEO-of-Apple.html" target="_blank"&gt;pourtant pris officiellement mercredi&lt;/a&gt; la tête de l’une des plus célèbres entreprises américaines au monde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Je recommande fortement que nous mettions en œuvre notre plan de succession et nommions Tim Cook, PDG d’Apple", a écrit Steve Jobs &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/08/24Letter-from-Steve-Jobs.html" target="_blank"&gt;dans sa lettre de démission&lt;/a&gt; pour raison de santé.&lt;br /&gt;C’est donc adoubé par le père des iPods, iPhones et autres "itechnologies" que Tim Cook passe du poste de directeur opérationnel à celui de grand maître de la maison Apple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Âgé de 50 ans, l’homme a déjà fait tourner la machine Apple et occupé le poste de PDG par intérim. Entre janvier et juin 2009, c’est lui qui remplace Steve Jobs lorsque celui-ci doit subir une transplantation du foie pour guérir son cancer du pancréas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De même lorsque le co-fondateur prend de nouveau du repos pour raison de santé en janvier 2011, c’est encore lui qui est choisi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pour lire l'article entier avec une vidéo, allez au&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110825-tim-cook-portrait-remplacement-steve-jobs-apple-pdg-iphone-ipad-ipod"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110825-tim-cook-portrait-remplacement-steve-jobs-apple-pdg-iphone-ipad-ipod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-5087025273526810644?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/5087025273526810644/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=5087025273526810644' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5087025273526810644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5087025273526810644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/08/le-dauphin-tim-cook-prend-la-place-du.html' title='Le dauphin Tim Cook Prend la Place du Maître Steve Jobs'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-5992652045862874272</id><published>2011-08-25T11:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-25T12:49:00.767-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La Salade Etait un Peu Trop Fraîche: une Grenouille Vivante Sort d'un Sachet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8NxbAAmqZTs/TlamzhZlzGI/AAAAAAAAAEE/GcsEWd5O0yU/s1600/84_photo_1314134272784-1-0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644882587024739426" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8NxbAAmqZTs/TlamzhZlzGI/AAAAAAAAAEE/GcsEWd5O0yU/s320/84_photo_1314134272784-1-0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;de Voila.fr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Insolite" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/insolite"&gt;Insolite&lt;/a&gt; 23/08/2011 23:19&lt;br /&gt;Aurélie et ses colocataires ne pensaient pas que leur salade en sachet estampillée "bio" serait si...fraîche: au fond du saladier, le petit groupe a découvert une grenouille vivante de la taille d'un gros pouce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"On a ouvert le sachet acheté ce soir en grande surface, un mélange de jeunes pousses bio, on l'a versé dans le saladier, on a commencé à manger mais on s'est rendus compte qu'au fond du bol il y avait une grenouille à moitié vivante", a raconté mardi soir à l'&lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/organisations/afp-organisation.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/org/afp.json"&gt;AFP&lt;/a&gt; Aurélie Grebent, 29 ans, commerçante à Charenton-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D'après la jeune femme, le petit batracien fait "bien six ou sept centimètres".&lt;br /&gt;"On a alerté le centre anti-poison, on risque une bonne gastro", a-t-elle raconté, ajoutant qu'il n'était "pas question de manger le deuxième sachet qui reste dans le frigo".&lt;br /&gt;L'infortunée a déclaré qu'elle se plaindrait auprès de l'entreprise commercialisant ces salades vertes prêtes à l'emploi.&lt;br /&gt;On ignorait le sort réservé à la grenouille.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-5992652045862874272?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/5992652045862874272/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=5992652045862874272' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5992652045862874272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5992652045862874272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/08/la-salade-etait-un-peu-trop-fraiche-une.html' title='La Salade Etait un Peu Trop Fraîche: une Grenouille Vivante Sort d&apos;un Sachet'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8NxbAAmqZTs/TlamzhZlzGI/AAAAAAAAAEE/GcsEWd5O0yU/s72-c/84_photo_1314134272784-1-0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-9001391557272231419</id><published>2011-07-20T06:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-20T06:05:49.684-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yao Ming, la Fin d'un Rêve Chinois</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-taUlHY9AfD8/TibSJF7WMAI/AAAAAAAAAD0/x5stXup2NjU/s1600/ming2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631419437725134850" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-taUlHY9AfD8/TibSJF7WMAI/AAAAAAAAAD0/x5stXup2NjU/s320/ming2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le plus célèbre des basketteurs chinois Yao Ming a décidé de mettre un terme à sa carrière. Produit de la propagande chinoise des années 1970, le pivot géant (2.29m) a réussi à imposer le basket comme le deuxième sport du national. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.blogger.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/emmanuel-versace"&gt;Emmanuel VERSACE&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;À 30 ans, le géant chinois de la NBA (2,29 m) Yao Ming a annoncé la fin d’une carrière programmée avant même sa naissance. Né le 12 septembre 1980 à Shanghai, le "petit" Yao est avant tout l’aboutissement d’une politique eugénique lancée par le père de la révolution chinoise, Mao Zedong. Son but était de mettre en place une génération de sportifs parfaits, qui deviendraient les symboles d’une Chine conquérante dans le monde sportif.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;À l’âge de 15 ans, sa mère, Dan Fang, est rapidement repérée par les autorités qui voient en elle une championne potentielle de basket. C’est avant tout sa taille (1,88 m) qui les attire. Dan aurait préféré une "carrière dans la chanson", avoue-t-elle au&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501051114/story7.html"&gt; magazine américain du Time&lt;/a&gt; en 2005, mais son destin se décidera un ballon de basket à la main. Elle rejoint dans les années 1960 le centre d’entrainement de Shanghai, où elle devient une joueuse importante de l’effectif, avant de connaître la Révolution culturelle (1966-1969) à laquelle elle participe activement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;pour lire l'article entier, allez au site ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110720-basket-nba-yao-ming-fin-dun-reve-chinois"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110720-basket-nba-yao-ming-fin-dun-reve-chinois&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-9001391557272231419?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/9001391557272231419/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=9001391557272231419' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/9001391557272231419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/9001391557272231419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/07/yao-ming-la-fin-dun-reve-chinois.html' title='Yao Ming, la Fin d&apos;un Rêve Chinois'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-taUlHY9AfD8/TibSJF7WMAI/AAAAAAAAAD0/x5stXup2NjU/s72-c/ming2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-9013062740768555527</id><published>2011-07-19T09:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-19T10:02:26.975-07:00</updated><title type='text'>En Attendant le Soleil, Paris-Plages Métamorphose les Bords de Seine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YG2nfMUG_ls/TiW32F4fuUI/AAAAAAAAADs/TSva_LvQQgc/s1600/main-plages-m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631109049016629570" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YG2nfMUG_ls/TiW32F4fuUI/AAAAAAAAADs/TSva_LvQQgc/s320/main-plages-m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pour la dixième année consécutive, Paris-Plages transformera, du 21 juillet au 21 août, les rives de la Seine en bord de mer. À quelques jours de l'ouverture, les opérations d'installation battent leur plein. Reportage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.blogger.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/marc-daou"&gt;Marc DAOU&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour la dixième édition de &lt;a href="http://parisplages.paris.fr/" target="_blank"&gt;la manifestation Paris-Plages&lt;/a&gt;, les bords de Seine se métamorphosent en station balnéaire éphémère du 21 juillet au 21 août, tout comme les abords du bassin de la Villette.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C’est sous une pluie intermittente que &lt;a href="http://parisplages.paris.fr/plans" target="_blank"&gt;l'aménagement de la rive droite de la Seine&lt;/a&gt; s’est poursuivi, ce lundi, avec l’installation d’une plage sur une partie de la voie Georges-Pompidou. Soit un kilomètre de sable en continu depuis le quai du Louvre jusqu’au pont d’Arcole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Dix fois plus de sable"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Près de 6 000 tonnes de sable, acheminées par l’entreprise Lafarge, ont été nécessaires pour créer l’illusion d’un bord de mer. Selon les organisateurs, dix fois plus de sable ont été utilisés que pour les éditions précédentes. C’est un convoi de 180 mètres de long, composé de six barges, qui a transporté par voie fluviale le sable fin en provenance de la carrière de Bernières, en aval de la Seine, en Normandie. "Une vingtaine de personnes participent ce lundi à l'installation et au déchargement du sable", explique Laurent Pointel, chef d'équipe du service port et maintenance au sein de l'entreprise Lafarge, présent ce matin sur le chantier de Paris-Plages (à écouter : l’entretien ci-dessous de Laurent Pointel).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;pour l'écouter et lire la suite de l'article, allez au site...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110718-paris-plages-10-ans-anniversaire-edition-activites-sable-quais-seine-villette-mairie-sport"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110718-paris-plages-10-ans-anniversaire-edition-activites-sable-quais-seine-villette-mairie-sport&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-9013062740768555527?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/9013062740768555527/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=9013062740768555527' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/9013062740768555527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/9013062740768555527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/07/en-attendant-le-soleil-paris-plages.html' title='En Attendant le Soleil, Paris-Plages Métamorphose les Bords de Seine'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YG2nfMUG_ls/TiW32F4fuUI/AAAAAAAAADs/TSva_LvQQgc/s72-c/main-plages-m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4531855485392837851</id><published>2011-07-18T11:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-18T11:09:03.892-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Au Bout du Suspense, le Japon Décroche Sa Première Coupe du Monde</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gs2GItU0xyo/TiR2OfsUd4I/AAAAAAAAADk/fQHh0Ka7hjQ/s1600/football_japan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630755425517598594" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gs2GItU0xyo/TiR2OfsUd4I/AAAAAAAAADk/fQHh0Ka7hjQ/s320/football_japan.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Au terme d’une finale de haute volée, le Japon a remporté le Mondial féminin de football 2011 en battant les États-Unis aux tirs aux buts (2-2, 3 t.a.b. à 1), dimanche. Il s'agit du premier titre majeur décroché par les joueuses nippones. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.blogger.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/depeche"&gt;Dépêche&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFP - Le Japon a créé une immense surprise en remportant son premier Mondial féminin, face aux Etats-Unis (3 tirs au but à 1, 2-2 a.p.), après être revenu deux fois au score, dimanche à Francfort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pour les Américaines, la défaite n'est "pas une option", avait expliqué l'attaquante Abby Wambach. Avec les Japonaises, deux fois assommées et deux fois ressuscitées, elles ont trouvé plus insubmersibles qu'elles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Et lors de la séance de tirs au but, ce sont les Américaines, qui n'avaient pourtant jamais perdu face aux Japonaises (22 victoires et trois nuls), qui ont craqué, les trois premières frappeuses (Boxx, Lloyd et Heath) échouant face à Kaihori.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tout dans le parcours des Japonaises dans ce Mondial relève de la surprise.&lt;br /&gt;Elles n'étaient favorites ni en quarts de finale face à l'Allemagne (1-0 a.p.), ni en demi-finale face à la Suède (3-1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mais les voir revenir au score par deux fois face à une équipe américaine dominatrice et qui a touché trois fois les montants - Rapinoe (18), Wambach (29) et Morgan (49) - tenait quasiment du miracle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Après la très logique ouverture du score par Morgan (69), il fallait une énorme incompréhension au sein de la charnière centrale américaine, incapable de dégager un ballon pourtant facile, pour que Miyama, de près, fusille Hope Solo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;En prolongation, on pensait que le but de Wambach (104), qui avait déjà sauvé les Etats-Unis en quarts de finale face au Brésil, en marquant, déjà de la tête, le but du 2-2 dans les arrêts de jeu de la prolongation, suffirait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pas du tout. A trois minutes du terme, Sawa surgissait sur corner pour tromper à nouveau Solo et finir meilleure buteuse du Mondial, avec cinq buts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;La sélection Nadeshiko (du nom d'une fleur) n'avait jamais dépassé les quarts de finale en Coupe du Monde. Tout au long de leur invraisemblable parcours, les partenaires de Sawa ont rappelé qu'elles jouaient aussi pour soutenir un pays frappé par le séisme et le tsunami du mois de mars.&lt;br /&gt;Longtemps décevante sur le terrain, la finale est devenue folle en prolongation. Mais dans les tribunes pleines de la Commerzbank Arena (48.817 spectateurs), elle a été dès le coup d'envoi à l'image de tout le tournoi, festive et animée par les supporteurs des deux camps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dans la tribune officielle, Angela Merkel, Sepp Blatter et Michel Platini ont eu l'air d'apprécier&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4531855485392837851?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4531855485392837851/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4531855485392837851' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4531855485392837851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4531855485392837851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/07/au-bout-du-suspense-le-japon-decroche.html' title='Au Bout du Suspense, le Japon Décroche Sa Première Coupe du Monde'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gs2GItU0xyo/TiR2OfsUd4I/AAAAAAAAADk/fQHh0Ka7hjQ/s72-c/football_japan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8575668865833328852</id><published>2011-07-15T09:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-15T09:10:01.259-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Le Feu d'Artifice et le Concert sur le Champs-de-Mars Ont Attiré Plus de 500 000 Personnes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GQni4fnYX7w/TiBlkBFucII/AAAAAAAAADc/Re26X8jMopw/s1600/14-juillet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629611203655266434" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GQni4fnYX7w/TiBlkBFucII/AAAAAAAAADc/Re26X8jMopw/s320/14-juillet.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Les festivités organisées à Paris à l'occasion de la fête nationale française se sont achevées par un feu d'artifice tiré depuis les jardins du Trocadéro. Le concert organisé par SOS Racisme sur le Champ-de-Mars a rassemblé 500 000 personnes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.blogger.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/depeche"&gt;Dépêche&lt;/a&gt; (texte) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;AFP - Entre 500.000 et un million de personnes ont assisté jeudi soir au concert gratuit organisé par SOS Racisme sur le Champ-de-Mars à Paris, puis au feu d'artifice du 14 juillet, ont constaté des journalistes de l'AFP.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;500.000 spectateurs, selon la Préfecture de Police, se sont rassemblées sur le Champ de Mars pour le concert, qui a duré plus de quatre heures. Ils étaient 8.000 sur le Trocadéro pour assister au feu d'artifice, qui a commencé vers 23H00 et a duré plus d'une demi-heure.&lt;br /&gt;Ce spectacle pyrotechnique a été tiré depuis le pont d'Iéna et les jardins du Trocadéro avec, pour cette année, un thème dédié aux "Comédies musicales, de Broadway à Paris", ont annoncé les organisateurs. Il a été conçu par David Proteau.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"J'avais entendu parler du feu d'artifice à Paris, c'est merveilleux, c'est un spectacle magique, on est heureux d'assister à ce spectacle stupéfiant", s'est réjouie Katya Koversyuk, une touriste russe traduisant le sentiment général de sa famille.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ca fait plaisir de voir du monde heureux célébrer le 14 juillet, de voir tous ces gens qui font la fête comme ça", a déclaré à l'AFP Hocine Seddik, un jeune Algérien de 28 ans de Béjaïa, en vacances en France. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;pour lire l'article entier, allez au site ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110715-france-14-juillet-festivites-commemoration-armistice-concert-feu-artifice-sos-racisme-trocadero-champ-mars"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110715-france-14-juillet-festivites-commemoration-armistice-concert-feu-artifice-sos-racisme-trocadero-champ-mars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8575668865833328852?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8575668865833328852/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8575668865833328852' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8575668865833328852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8575668865833328852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/07/le-feu-dartifice-et-le-concert-sur-le.html' title='Le Feu d&apos;Artifice et le Concert sur le Champs-de-Mars Ont Attiré Plus de 500 000 Personnes'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GQni4fnYX7w/TiBlkBFucII/AAAAAAAAADc/Re26X8jMopw/s72-c/14-juillet.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-183145484001338249</id><published>2011-07-11T07:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-11T07:39:11.459-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Le Français Thomas Voeckler s'Empare du Maillot Jaune</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RLgxKceqU8Q/ThsKZKby-zI/AAAAAAAAADU/_gA-tk2fjGc/s1600/tour-de-france-voeckler_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628103586743515954" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RLgxKceqU8Q/ThsKZKby-zI/AAAAAAAAADU/_gA-tk2fjGc/s320/tour-de-france-voeckler_0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; de France24 - Le Français Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) a pris la tête du classement général de la Grande Boucle à l'issue d'une 8e étape marquée par plusieurs chutes. L'Alsacien avait déjà revêtu la tunique jaune pendant une dizaine de jours en 2004&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFP - L'Espagnol Luis Leon Sanchez (Rabobank) a remporté la 9e étape du Tour de France, dimanche à Saint-Flour, devant le Français Thomas Voeckler (Europcar), nouveau maillot jaune après une journée riche en rebondissements. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov et le Belge Jurgen Van den Broeck ont abandonné sur chute pendant cette étape de moyenne montagne à travers le Cantal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A l'arrivée jugée dans la ville haute de Saint-Flour, le Français Sandy Casar, dernier membre du trio de tête, a pris la troisième place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le Belge Philippe Gilbert a réglé le premier peloton, à près de 4 minutes. pour lire la suite de l'article, allez au site..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110710-tour-de-france-issoire-saint-flour-francais-thomas-voeckler-maillot-jaune"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110710-tour-de-france-issoire-saint-flour-francais-thomas-voeckler-maillot-jaune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-183145484001338249?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/183145484001338249/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=183145484001338249' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/183145484001338249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/183145484001338249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/07/le-francais-thomas-voeckler-sempare-du.html' title='Le Français Thomas Voeckler s&apos;Empare du Maillot Jaune'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RLgxKceqU8Q/ThsKZKby-zI/AAAAAAAAADU/_gA-tk2fjGc/s72-c/tour-de-france-voeckler_0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2779925416143153322</id><published>2011-07-09T10:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T11:04:57.883-07:00</updated><title type='text'>USA: LinkedIn Devient Numéro 2 des Réseaux Sociaux, Talonné par Twitter</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XvaSGTdraEc/ThiXusZBZSI/AAAAAAAAAC8/3EAD7BfcWw4/s1600/photo_1310230094720-1-0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627414562845320482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 245px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 164px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XvaSGTdraEc/ThiXusZBZSI/AAAAAAAAAC8/3EAD7BfcWw4/s320/photo_1310230094720-1-0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFP - Le réseau social sur internet LinkedIn, destiné aux relations professionnelles, s'est hissé en juin à la deuxième place du secteur aux Etats-Unis, derrière Facebook mais devant MySpace, talonné par le site de microblogs Twitter, selon une étude ComScore publiée vendredi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En juin LinkedIn a enregistré 33,9 millions de visiteurs uniques (+1,5% en un mois), très loin derrière Facebook (160,9 millions de visiteurs uniques, +2,3%), mais juste devant MySpace (33,5 millions de visiteurs -4%)). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twitter, qui a enregistré la croissance la plus rapide (+13,5%), a enregistré 30,6 millions de visiteurs. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ComScore a indiqué que les chiffres mondiaux n'étaient pas encore disponibles pour juin.&lt;br /&gt;Facebook, qui pourrait entrer en Bourse l'année prochaine, Twitter, qui est soupçonné de vouloir en faire de même, et LinkedIn, coté depuis le mois de mai, comptent parmi les valeurs les plus en vue actuellement des hautes technologies. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En revanche MySpace, qui fut longtemps premier sur le segment, vient d'être cédé à un prix dérisoire, estimé par la presse américaine dans la trentaine de millions de dollars, par le groupe de médias News Corp. qui l'avait acquis à prix d'or (580 millions de dollars) en 2005. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2779925416143153322?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2779925416143153322/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2779925416143153322' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2779925416143153322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2779925416143153322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/07/usa-linkedin-devient-numero-2-des.html' title='USA: LinkedIn Devient Numéro 2 des Réseaux Sociaux, Talonné par Twitter'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XvaSGTdraEc/ThiXusZBZSI/AAAAAAAAAC8/3EAD7BfcWw4/s72-c/photo_1310230094720-1-0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2195375938591826346</id><published>2011-07-09T10:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T11:12:14.457-07:00</updated><title type='text'>L'Ex-Première Dame Betty Ford Décède à l'âge de 93 Ans</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fyfpz2sh-Co/ThiZfPHJGuI/AAAAAAAAADE/P38ZmAx254w/s1600/betty%252520ford.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627416496310917858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fyfpz2sh-Co/ThiZfPHJGuI/AAAAAAAAADE/P38ZmAx254w/s320/betty%252520ford.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;de France24 - La veuve de l'ancien président américain Gerald Ford est décédée en Californie à l'âge de 93 ans. Porte-parole active des droits des femmes, Betty Ford avait notamment créé le centre de désintoxication Betty Ford Center.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFP - Betty Ford, la veuve de l'ancien président américain Gerald Ford, est décédée à l'âge de 93 ans, a annoncé vendredi la presse américaine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Betty Ford, qui fut une porte-parole active pour les droits des femmes, vivait en Californie depuis la mort de son mari en 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La veuve de l'ancien président Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, s'est déclarée très attristée par sa mort et salué le "rôle merveilleux" qu'elle joua auprès des femmes atteintes du cancer du sein et en tant que fondatrice du centre de désintoxication, le "Betty Ford Center".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Betty Ford, qui avait subi elle même une mastectomie en 1974, avait déclaré que si en tant que "première dame, elle pouvait parler sans détours de son opération, les autres femmes alors pourraient également en parler". pour l'article entier, allez au site...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110709-ancienne-premiere-dame-americaine-betty-ford-decedee--age-93-ans-etats-unis"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110709-ancienne-premiere-dame-americaine-betty-ford-decedee--age-93-ans-etats-unis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2195375938591826346?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2195375938591826346/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2195375938591826346' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2195375938591826346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2195375938591826346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/07/lex-premiere-dame-betty-ford-decede.html' title='L&apos;Ex-Première Dame Betty Ford Décède à l&apos;âge de 93 Ans'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fyfpz2sh-Co/ThiZfPHJGuI/AAAAAAAAADE/P38ZmAx254w/s72-c/betty%252520ford.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7355934135210364076</id><published>2011-07-08T12:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T11:42:42.891-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La Navette Atlantis A Bien Atteint l'Orbite Terrestre</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XAND5DTrEBk/ThihCuJ75OI/AAAAAAAAADM/WtupWI8LY-A/s1600/atlantis-off-m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627424802520949986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XAND5DTrEBk/ThihCuJ75OI/AAAAAAAAADM/WtupWI8LY-A/s320/atlantis-off-m.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;de France24&lt;br /&gt;La navette spatiale américaine Atlantis a décollé pour la dernière fois à 17h29 (heure française) de Cap Canaveral. Cet épisode historique marque l’irruption du privé dans ce secteur, mais aussi le renouveau de la compétition internationale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10, 9, 8, 7… et c'est parti. La navette spatiale américaine Atlantis a décollé à 17h29 (heure française). Environ 750 000 personnes ont assisté à Cap Canaveral en Floride à ce dernier vol qualifié par la Nasa de "dernier rendez-vous avec l’histoire" d’Atlantis. Cette mise à la retraite, après&lt;a href="http://www.timesheraldonline.com/opinion/ci_18438447" target="_blank"&gt; 30 ans de bons et loyaux services,&lt;/a&gt; ouvre une période d’incertitudes pour le secteur spatial. Mais aussi des opportunités pour le secteur privé&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour l'article entier avec une vidéo du lancement, allez au site...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110708-atlantis-vol-spatial-dernier-enjeu-soyouz-navette-espace-iss-cap-canaveral-floride?autoplay=1"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110708-atlantis-vol-spatial-dernier-enjeu-soyouz-navette-espace-iss-cap-canaveral-floride?autoplay=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7355934135210364076?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7355934135210364076/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7355934135210364076' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7355934135210364076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7355934135210364076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/07/la-navette-atlantis-bien-atteint.html' title='La Navette Atlantis A Bien Atteint l&apos;Orbite Terrestre'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XAND5DTrEBk/ThihCuJ75OI/AAAAAAAAADM/WtupWI8LY-A/s72-c/atlantis-off-m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-6337033653315494467</id><published>2011-07-04T11:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-04T11:52:31.750-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Le Tour de France 2011</title><content type='html'>Le 98e Tour de France qui comprend 21 étapes pour une distance de 3 430,5 kilomètres se déroule du 2 au 24 juillet 2011. Retrouvez toute l'actualité de la Grande Boucle dans notre dossier spécial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour lire l'article entier, allez au site &lt;a href="http://www.rfi.fr/sports/20110629-le-tour-france-2011"&gt;http://www.rfi.fr/sports/20110629-le-tour-france-2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-6337033653315494467?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/6337033653315494467/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=6337033653315494467' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6337033653315494467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6337033653315494467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/07/le-tour-de-france-2011.html' title='Le Tour de France 2011'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-1177907483647496918</id><published>2011-04-07T15:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T16:15:39.515-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Explosion Cosmique d'une Puissance et d'une Durée Jamais Observée</title><content type='html'>Mots clés: &lt;a title="usa" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/tags/usa"&gt;usa&lt;/a&gt; ; &lt;a title="astronomie" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/tags/astronomie"&gt;astronomie&lt;/a&gt; - de Voila.fr &lt;a title="Sciences" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/sciences"&gt;Sciences&lt;/a&gt; 07/04/2011 18:02 La &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/organisations/nasa-organisation.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/org/nasa.json"&gt;Nasa&lt;/a&gt; a mobilisé plusieurs télescopes dont Hubble pour étudier dans une galaxie lointaine l'explosion cosmique la plus puissante et la plus longue jamais observée, a indiqué jeudi l'agence spatiale américaine. Plus d'une semaine après, de fortes radiations, dont l'intensité fluctue, continuent à être émises de l'endroit où la déflagration s'est produite, précise la &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/organisations/nasa-organisation.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/org/nasa.json"&gt;Nasa&lt;/a&gt; dans un communiqué. Les astronomes affirment ne jamais avoir vu une explosion d'une intensité lumineuse aussi variable et d'une aussi longue durée. Généralement, ces puissantes émissions de rayons gamma qui résultent de la &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/organisations/destruction-organisation.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/org/destruction.json"&gt;Destruction&lt;/a&gt; d'une étoile massive ayant épuisé son carburant nucléaire ne durent jamais plus que quelques heures. "Nous connaissons des objets dans notre galaxie pouvant produire des explosions à répétition mais ils sont des milliers ou des millions de fois moins puissants que ce que nous observons. C'est vraiment extraordinaire", estime Andrew Fruchter, astronome au Space Telescope Science Institute à &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/baltimore-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/baltimore.json"&gt;Baltimore&lt;/a&gt; (est). pour lire l'article entier (avec des images) allez au site &lt;a href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/sciences/2011/04/07/explosion-cosmique-d-une-puissance-et-d-une-duree-jamais-observee_26488.html"&gt;http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/sciences/2011/04/07/explosion-cosmique-d-une-puissance-et-d-une-duree-jamais-observee_26488.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-1177907483647496918?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/1177907483647496918/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=1177907483647496918' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/1177907483647496918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/1177907483647496918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/04/explosion-cosmique-dune-puissance-et.html' title='Explosion Cosmique d&apos;une Puissance et d&apos;une Durée Jamais Observée'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-402512920566498507</id><published>2011-03-29T18:26:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T18:47:30.712-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Figure Bien Dans le Film de Woody Allen "Midnight in Paris"</title><content type='html'>de France24 - Les derniers doutes ont été levés : les premières images du dernier film de  Woody Allen viennent d'être mises en ligne et coupent court aux rumeurs disant  que les scènes dans lesquelles l'épouse du président apparaît ont été coupées au  montage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AFP - &lt;/strong&gt;Les premières images du film de Woody Allen "Midnight  in Paris" avec la Première dame de France Carla Bruni-Sarkozy en guest star ont  été mises en ligne mardi par le site du mensuel &lt;a href="http://www.premiere.fr/"&gt;Premiere.fr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;La bande-annonce du film, qui sera projeté en ouverture du Festival de Cannes  le 11 mai, dure deux minutes sur fond d'accordéon et présente Mme Bruni-Sarkozy  accueillant des touristes dans les jardins du musée Rodin, dont elle joue un  guide.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;En jean, veste et tee-shirt clairs, "Carla" apparaît deux secondes à peine en  compagnie du couple formé par Owen Wilson et Rachel McAdams dont le film suit  les démêlés aigrelets à la faveur de ce voyage "so romantic".&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;La courte-séquence est montée comme un clip à la gloire de la capitale,  faisant défiler les quais de Seine et les voies sur berge, la place Vendôme, le  pont d'Iéna, les Champs-Elysées et l'Arc de triomphe "by night", ainsi que  quelques lieux emblématiques où furent tournées des scènes du film l'été  dernier, tels le restaurant le Grand Véfour ou l'hôtel Meurice.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Elle met aussi en scène quelques unes des apparitions françaises du film:  Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux et Gad Elmaleh.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"Midnight in Paris" sortira sur les écrans en même temps que sa projection à  Cannes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;pour voir une partie du film, allez à ...&lt;/p&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110329-carla-bruni-sarkozy-figure-bien-film-woody-allen-midnight-in-paris-ouverture-cannes-festival&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-402512920566498507?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/402512920566498507/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=402512920566498507' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/402512920566498507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/402512920566498507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/03/carla-bruni-sarkozy-figure-bien-dans-le_29.html' title='Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Figure Bien Dans le Film de Woody Allen &quot;Midnight in Paris&quot;'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2347792551304269549</id><published>2011-03-18T08:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-18T08:23:35.950-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paris Va Contrôler la Sûreté de Toutes les Centrales Nucléaires Françaises</title><content type='html'>de France 24 - Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, ministre de l'Écologie, a annoncé que la France allait contrôler la sûreté de toutes les centrales nucléaire sur son sol. Objectif : assurer la transparence alors qu'un risque de catastrophe plane sur le Japon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/france-24"&gt;FRANCE 24&lt;/a&gt; (vidéo)&lt;a class="tags-item-tags-auteurs" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/depeche"&gt;Dépêche&lt;/a&gt; (texte)&lt;br /&gt;AFP - La France va contrôler la sûreté de "toutes (ses) centrales" nucléaires pour que "chacune puisse tirer les enseignements" de l'accident de la centrale japonaise de Fukushima, a déclaré mardi la ministre de l'Ecologie, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"L'accident, peut-être la catastrophe, de Fukushima, sera l'occasion d'un retour d'expérience (...). Nous reverrons toutes les centrales, une à une, pour que chacune puisse tirer les enseignements de Fukushima", a dit la ministre lors de la séance des questions à l'Assemblée nationale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elle a affirmé que "toute crise, tout accident" était "l'occasion de revoir la sûreté de nos centrales", rappelant que tout le parc des centrales de l'Hexagone avait ainsi été contrôlé après la tempête de Noël 1999 pour s'assurer qu'il puisse faire face à un risque d'inondation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pour la suite de l'article avec une vidéo, allez au . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110315-paris-centrale-nucleaire-securite-surete-france-controle-installations-ecologie-risque-menace-catastrophe"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110315-paris-centrale-nucleaire-securite-surete-france-controle-installations-ecologie-risque-menace-catastrophe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2347792551304269549?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2347792551304269549/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2347792551304269549' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2347792551304269549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2347792551304269549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/03/paris-va-controler-la-surete-de-toutes.html' title='Paris Va Contrôler la Sûreté de Toutes les Centrales Nucléaires Françaises'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7096272851887688837</id><published>2011-03-16T12:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-16T12:52:32.370-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Alcool, vitesse : Flambée des Délits Routiers Graves en janvier et février</title><content type='html'>Mots clés: &lt;a title="transport" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/tags/transport"&gt;transport&lt;/a&gt; ; &lt;a title="route" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/tags/route"&gt;route&lt;/a&gt; ; &lt;a title="sécurité" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/tags/securite"&gt;sécurité&lt;/a&gt;  - de Voilà.fr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;France 16/03/2011 18:43&lt;br /&gt;Alcool et drogue au volant, grands excès de vitesse, conduite sans permis : le retour des mauvaises habitudes des automobilistes français semble se confirmer, avec l'annonce mercredi d'une flambée depuis le début de l'année des infractions routières les plus graves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chiffre le plus frappant, le nombre de grands excès de vitesse (50 km/h ou plus au-dessus de la limite autorisée) constatés en janvier et février a explosé (+55,75%) par rapport aux deux premiers mois de 2010, passant de 1.514 à 2.358 faits, indique mercredi dans son bilan mensuel l'Observatoire national de la délinquance et des réponses pénales (ONDRP).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sur la même période, les "conduites sous l'emprise de l'alcool et/ou de produits stupéfiants" ont augmenté de 16,42% (32.093, &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/contre-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/contre.json"&gt;Contre&lt;/a&gt; 27.567 l'an dernier). Concernant la conduite sans permis, l'augmentation est de 19,16% (de 13.636 faits en janvier-février 2010 à 16.249 faits en 2011).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette très nette dégradation intervient juste après un assouplissement des règles du permis à point, définitivement adopté par le Parlement début février, qui exclut pourtant les délits les plus graves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La réforme avait été dénoncée avec virulence par les associations de victimes et de sécurité routière, qui prédisaient dès l'automne dernier qu'elle entraînerait une dégradation rapide du comportement routier des Français.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pour lire la suite de l'article, allez au. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/france/2011/03/16/alcool-vitesse-flambee-des-delits-routiers-graves-en-janvier-et-fevrier_11209.html"&gt;http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/france/2011/03/16/alcool-vitesse-flambee-des-delits-routiers-graves-en-janvier-et-fevrier_11209.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7096272851887688837?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7096272851887688837/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7096272851887688837' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7096272851887688837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7096272851887688837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/03/alcool-vitesse-flambee-des-delits.html' title='Alcool, vitesse : Flambée des Délits Routiers Graves en janvier et février'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4421364679999264432</id><published>2011-03-15T13:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-15T17:28:16.133-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Arte: "Comment L'industrie Chimique Empoisonne Notre Assiette"</title><content type='html'>de Voila.fr - Mots clés: &lt;a title="santé" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/tags/sante"&gt;santé&lt;/a&gt; ; &lt;a title="alimentation" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/tags/alimentation"&gt;alimentation&lt;/a&gt; ; &lt;a title="environnement" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/tags/environnement"&gt;environnement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Medias" href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/medias"&gt;Medias&lt;/a&gt; 15/03/2011 15:06&lt;br /&gt;Arrosés de pesticides, fongicides, insecticides, bourrés de colorants et d'édulcorants, nos aliments sont à l'origine de nombre de maladies chroniques, souligne l'enquête minutieuse et didactique de Marie-Monique Robin, diffusée mardi sur Arte.&lt;br /&gt;"Notre poison &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/organisations/quotidien-organisation.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/org/quotidien.json"&gt;Quotidien&lt;/a&gt;, comment l'industrie chimique empoisonne notre assiette", raconte &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/celle-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/celle.json"&gt;Celle&lt;/a&gt; qui avait raflé de nombreux prix avec "&lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/organisations/le-monde-organisation.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/org/le-monde.json"&gt;Le Monde&lt;/a&gt; selon Monsanto", diffusé en 2008 sur plus de 20 chaînes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ca commence sur un film documentaire de 1964, où un père se plaint du pain aux monostéarates, des colorants dans le vin, des insecticides dans les pommes, de la viande élevée aux antibiotiques, des produits chimiques dans la salade...&lt;br /&gt;"J'ai repris l'enquête", dit-elle, pour étudier, près de 50 ans après ce constat, où on en est : réglementation, liens entre maladies et produits chimiques qui "sont partout", insuffisances des instances de contrôle et de surveillance...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les premiers à souffrir des effets de ce que l'on appelle élégamment les produits phytosanitaires sont bien sûr les agriculteurs, chez qui les intoxications aiguës ne sont pas rares. "Chaque année, selon l'&lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/organisations/oms-organisation.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/org/oms.json"&gt;OMS&lt;/a&gt;, 1 à 3 millions sont victimes d'intoxication aiguë par pesticides, plus de 200.000 en meurent", dit la journaliste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/lieux/france-lieu.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/loc/france.json"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt; est le premier utilisateur européen de pesticides.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pour voir la suite de l'article, allez au site&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/medias/2011/03/15/arte-comment-l-industrie-chimique-empoisonne-notre-assiette_10304.html"&gt;http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/medias/2011/03/15/arte-comment-l-industrie-chimique-empoisonne-notre-assiette_10304.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4421364679999264432?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4421364679999264432/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4421364679999264432' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4421364679999264432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4421364679999264432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/03/arte-comment-lindustrie-chimique.html' title='Arte: &quot;Comment L&apos;industrie Chimique Empoisonne Notre Assiette&quot;'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-5764975774805878908</id><published>2011-03-14T11:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-14T11:31:43.149-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La Menace d'une Catastrophe Nucléaire Plane sur le Japon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110314-japon-seisme-liveblogging-catastrophe-nucleaire-tsunami-centrale-explosion-fukushima"&gt;Trois jours après le séisme et le tsunami qui ont fait des milliers de morts au Japon, deux nouvelles explosions se sont produites dans la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima. Des milliers de secouristes sont toujours à pied d'œuvre pour porter assistance aux victimes du plus puissant tremblement de terre que l'archipel ait connu. Suivez en temps réel l'évolution de la situation sur notre liveblogging.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dernière modification : 14/03/2011 &lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-thématiques" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-articles/catastrophe-naturelle"&gt;Catastrophe naturelle&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-thématiques" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-thematiques/nucleaire"&gt;Énergie nucléaire&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-thématiques" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-articles/japan"&gt;Japon&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a class="tags-item-tags-thématiques" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-thematiques/seisme-japon"&gt;Séisme au Japon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le Japon exclut un scénario à la Tchernobyl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Malgré les deux nouvelles explosions survenues ce lundi dans la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima, les autorités de Tokyo écartent l'hypothèse d'un scénario catastrophe à la Tchernobyl. Suivez la situation en temps réel sur notre liveblogging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allez au «livebloggine» sur le sit - &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110314-japon-seisme-liveblogging-catastrophe-nucleaire-tsunami-centrale-explosion-fukushima"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110314-japon-seisme-liveblogging-catastrophe-nucleaire-tsunami-centrale-explosion-fukushima&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-5764975774805878908?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/5764975774805878908/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=5764975774805878908' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5764975774805878908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5764975774805878908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/03/la-menace-dune-catastrophe-nucleaire.html' title='La Menace d&apos;une Catastrophe Nucléaire Plane sur le Japon'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-3685212312139868554</id><published>2011-02-11T12:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-11T12:30:23.279-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ÉGYPTE : Le président Hosni Moubarak Quitte le Pouvoir</title><content type='html'>de France 24 &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20110211-egypte-moubarak-manifestations-opposants-democratie-place-tahrir-revolte-18e-jour"&gt;Au  18e jour du mouvement de contestation réclamant son départ, Hosni Moubarak, à la  tête de l'Égypte depuis 1981, a quitté le pouvoir, a annoncé le vice-président  Omar Souleimane. Le "raïs" a chargé le Conseil militaire suprême de prendre en  charge les affaires publiques. La foule rassemblée place Tahrir, au Caire, est  en liesse.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- /block-inner, /block --&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le président Moubarak quitte le pouvoir après 18 jours de révolte:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le président Hosni Moubarak a quitté le pouvoir après 18 jours d’une  mobilisation sans précédent dans l'histoire de la République arabe d'Égypte.  Retour sur les évènements qui ont conduit à sa chute.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il est un peu plus de 18 heures au Caire, ce vendredi 11 février, quand la  télévision d'État égyptienne interrompt ses programmes pour diffuser une annonce  historique. Par la voix de son vice-président, Omar Souleimane, le "raïs"  annonce à la nation qu’il a abandonné ses fonctions présidentielles.  Immédiatement, la place Tahrir ("Libération", en français) du Caire, devenue le  haut lieu de la contestation contre le régime depuis le 25 janvier, exulte.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un peu plus tôt dans l’après-midi, le Parti national démocratique (PND), la  formation politique du président, avait annoncé que Hosni Moubarak et sa famille  avaient quitté Le Caire pour rejoindre la station balnéaire Charm el-Cheikh, où  ils disposent d’une villa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;pour lire l'article entier avec une vidéo. allez au cite -http://www.france24.com/fr/20110211-egypte-hosni-moubarak-demission-president-rais-sortie-18-jours-retour-evenements?autoplay=1&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-3685212312139868554?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/3685212312139868554/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=3685212312139868554' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3685212312139868554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3685212312139868554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/02/egypte-le-president-hosni-moubarak.html' title='ÉGYPTE : Le président Hosni Moubarak Quitte le Pouvoir'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-753790603369931668</id><published>2011-02-08T16:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-08T16:06:01.893-08:00</updated><title type='text'>La Joconde Serait un Homme ? Le Louvre en Doute</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;de France 24&lt;/div&gt;Le modèle qui a posé pour Léonard de Vinci aurait été un jeune assistant, avec  qui le maître entretenait une relation amoureuse, affirment des chercheurs  italiens. La direction du Louvre, propriétaire de l'oeuvre, a plus que des  doutes.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Photo principale :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt; Détail de  "La Joconde aux moustaches" de Marcel Duchamp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AFP - &lt;/strong&gt;Des chercheurs italiens spécialisés dans la levée des  mystères artistiques ont affirmé mercredi qu'un jeune homme avait servi de  modèle à Léonard de Vinci pour La Joconde, une thèse qui laisse sceptiques les  experts du Louvre.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;pour lire l'article entier et voir la vidéo, allez au site: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20110203-joconde-homme-amant-modele-vinci-le-louvre-doute-mona-lisa-caprotti-vincenti&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-753790603369931668?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/753790603369931668/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=753790603369931668' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/753790603369931668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/753790603369931668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/02/la-joconde-serait-un-homme-le-louvre-en.html' title='La Joconde Serait un Homme ? Le Louvre en Doute'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7509143117437251532</id><published>2011-02-05T21:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-06T07:05:15.724-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Le meilleur Ami de l'homme Profite du Boom Economique en Chine</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="cat"&gt;Société&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="date"&gt;02/02/2011 14:19 - de Voila.fr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="titre texte"&gt;D'un geste précis de la main, le vétérinaire chinois implante de fines aiguilles d'acupuncture dans le ventre et le dos de "Little &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/personnalites/bear-personnalite.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/pers/bear.json"&gt;Bear&lt;/a&gt;", un bichon à poil frisé.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="titre texte"&gt;Zhu Jianmin, le propriétaire de Little &lt;a class="focus" href="http://focus.voila.fr/personnalites/bear-personnalite.html" json="http://focus.voila.fr/voila/miniLR/pers/bear.json"&gt;Bear&lt;/a&gt;, a décidé ces séances d'acupuncture après avoir entendu dire qu'elles permettraient à son chien de maigrir. Celui-ci pèse en effet 15 kilogrammes, de 50% en excès.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="titre texte"&gt;Pour lire l'article entier, allez à http://actu.voila.fr/actualites/societe/2011/02/02/le-meilleur-ami-de-l-homme-profite-du-boom-economique-en-chine_622609.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7509143117437251532?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7509143117437251532/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7509143117437251532' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7509143117437251532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7509143117437251532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2011/02/le-meilleur-ami-de-lhomme-profite-du.html' title='Le meilleur Ami de l&apos;homme Profite du Boom Economique en Chine'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-996567698392506427</id><published>2010-04-30T07:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T08:09:15.807-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La Marée Noire Atteint les Côtes de Louisiane</title><content type='html'>de Voilà.fr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La nappe de pétrole provoquée par l'explosion d'une plateforme dans le golfe du Mexique a atteint dans la nuit les côtes de Louisiane, laissant présager l'une des pires marées noires de l'histoire des Etats-Unis, où elle est déclarée catastrophe nationale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avec 800.000 litres de pétrole s'échappant chaque jour du puits de pétrole creusé pare la plateforme qui a sombré le 22 avril, la catastrophe pourrait dépasser en ampleur celle de l'Exxon Valdez, la pire de l'histoir amécaine, 1989 au large de l'Alaska.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pour lire l'article entier, allez à&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-996567698392506427?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/996567698392506427/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=996567698392506427' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/996567698392506427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/996567698392506427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2010/04/la-maree-noire-atteint-les-cotes-de.html' title='La Marée Noire Atteint les Côtes de Louisiane'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-1606653150946257707</id><published>2009-08-26T11:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-26T11:31:37.736-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gearing up for 2009 - 2010 School Year!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay tuned for postings for the new school year!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-1606653150946257707?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/1606653150946257707/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=1606653150946257707' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/1606653150946257707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/1606653150946257707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2009/08/gearing-up-for-2009-2010-school-year.html' title='Gearing up for 2009 - 2010 School Year!'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7456031163904183216</id><published>2009-03-06T18:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T18:55:10.596-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Barbie, 50 Ans de Rêve et... de Controverse</title><content type='html'>Jeudi 05 mars 2009 Par &lt;a onmouseup="i_estat('292057198298','I','/fr/20090305-barbie-50-ans-reve-controverse-poupee-mattel-anniversaire-diaporama','Tag_auteur','texte','Tatiana_EL_KHOURY');return true" class="france24_tags" title="" href="http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-auteurs/tatiana-el-khoury" rel="tag"&gt;Tatiana EL KHOURY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Le 9 mars, Barbie souffle ses 50 bougies. FRANCE 24 revient en images sur la mythique poupée dont la vie a été marquée par les grandes questions de son temps. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;À l'actif de la poupée blonde : plus de 100 carrières, 50 nationalités, 300 pages Facebook, 1 000 canaux YouTube et près d'un milliard de vêtements, dont certains créés par des stylistes de renom. Il se vend une Barbie dans le monde toutes les trois secondes. Autant dire qu'on en a probablement tous eu une entre les mains. Mais la vie de la poupée Mattel n'a pas été toujours rose. Le diaporama ci-dessous présente certaines des Barbie les plus controversées. Laquelle, à votre avis, est la plus polémique ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Pour voir les images et lancer le diaporama, visitez le site...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20090305-barbie-50-ans-reve-controverse-poupee-mattel-anniversaire-diaporama"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20090305-barbie-50-ans-reve-controverse-poupee-mattel-anniversaire-diaporama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7456031163904183216?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7456031163904183216/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7456031163904183216' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7456031163904183216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7456031163904183216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2009/03/barbie-50-ans-de-reve-et-de-controverse.html' title='Barbie, 50 Ans de Rêve et... de Controverse'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2552024508526918837</id><published>2009-03-05T10:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-05T11:09:32.928-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Rendez-vous en Juillet !", Lance Michaël Jackson à Ses Fans</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;AFP et France 24 - Jeudi 05 mars 2009 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Quatre ans après avoir été acquitté pour attouchements sur mineur, le "roi de la pop" devrait annoncer, ce jeudi, une série de nouveaux concerts à Londres. Des dates qui permettraient à la star d'éponger une partie de ses dettes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Le roi de la pop Michael Jackson devrait annoncer jeudi une série de concerts à Londres qui marquerait son retour sur la scène quatre ans après son acquittement en 2005 à l'issue d'un procès où il était accusé d'attouchements sur un garçon de 13 ans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;L'organisateur de concerts AEG Live a convoqué une conférence de presse à 16H00 GMT à laquelle doit participer le chanteur dans la salle de l'O2 Arena, d'une capacité de 20.000 spectateurs, sans fournir de détails.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;Allez à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20090305-michael-jackson-retour-scene-concert-roi-pop-musique-londres-acquittement-proces"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20090305-michael-jackson-retour-scene-concert-roi-pop-musique-londres-acquittement-proces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;pour lire l'article entier avec une photo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2552024508526918837?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2552024508526918837/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2552024508526918837' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2552024508526918837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2552024508526918837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2009/03/rendez-vous-en-juillet-lance-michael.html' title='&quot;Rendez-vous en Juillet !&quot;, Lance Michaël Jackson à Ses Fans'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7811839944455753909</id><published>2009-03-02T16:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-02T17:00:06.251-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wall Street et Les Bourses Européennes Plongent</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;de France 24 Lundi 02 mars 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Après la baisse sensible des marchés asiatiques, Wall Street connaît un repli historique puisque le Dow Jones est passé sous la barre des 7 000 points. Les Bourses européennes plongent à la clôture, à l'image du CAC 40 qui finit à - 4,48 %&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les principaux marchés boursiers européens étaient en nette baisse lundi matin, sous l'effet de la méfiance à l'égard des valeurs bancaires après l'annonce par le géant britannique HSBC de piètres résultats en 2008 et d'une augmentation de capital massive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A 08h37 GMT, le Footsie-100, l'indice vedette de la Bourse de Londres, cédait 136,09 points, soit 3,55% par rapport à la clôture de vendredi, à 3.694 points&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Paris, le CAC 40 cédait à 09H10 (08H10 GMT) 2,52% à 2.634,46 points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A la Bourse de Francfort, l'indice allemand vedette Dax perdait 3,21% à 3.720,17 points vers 8H30 GMT, tiré vers le bas par les valeurs financières.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Milan, l'indice vedette SP/Mib cédait 3% à 14.824 points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Allez à&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20090302-bourse-chute-wall-street-etats-unis-aig-cac-dax-fortis-crise-bourse-europe"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20090302-bourse-chute-wall-street-etats-unis-aig-cac-dax-fortis-crise-bourse-europe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pour lire l'article entier avec une vidéo.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7811839944455753909?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7811839944455753909/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7811839944455753909' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7811839944455753909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7811839944455753909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2009/03/wall-street-et-les-bourses-europeennes.html' title='Wall Street et Les Bourses Européennes Plongent'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4447993236986253865</id><published>2009-02-10T19:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-10T20:12:25.126-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Le trafic aérien a repris malgré les intempéries.</title><content type='html'>Mardi 10 février 2009&lt;br /&gt;À Paris, les aéroports d'Orly et de Roissy ont été fermés lundi soir pour cause d'avis de tempête. Le trafic aérien a repris ce mardi vers 9 heures. Mais des retards sont à signaler sur de nombreux vols.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour lire l'article avec une vidéo allez à:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20090210-france-trafic-aerien-aeroport-parisien-roissy-orly-tempete-intemperies"&gt;http://www.france24.com/fr/20090210-france-trafic-aerien-aeroport-parisien-roissy-orly-tempete-intemperies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4447993236986253865?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4447993236986253865/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4447993236986253865' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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Printemps, Une Revendication Exige le Retrait Français d'Afghanistan</title><content type='html'>2008-12-16 14:00:41PARIS(AFP) (AFP)&lt;br /&gt;© AFP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cinq bâtons de dynamite sans système de mise à feu ont été découverts mardi matin au magasin Le Printemps, dans le centre de Paris, à l'endroit précis indiqué dans une revendication parvenue le matin même à l'AFP exigeant le retrait des troupes françaises d'Afghanistan d'ici la fin février 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette lettre de revendication signée du "Front Révolutionnaire Afghan", un groupe jusqu'alors inconnu des services de renseignements français, postée du bureau de Paris-Villette et tamponnée lundi à 18H00, est parvenue entre 08H00 et 09H00 à l'Agence France-Presse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le président Nicolas Sarkozy a appelé à "la vigilance" et la "fermeté" face au terrorisme, tout en soulignant qu'il fallait être prudent après la découverte des explosifs au Printemps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allez à &lt;a href="http://actu.voila.fr/Article/mmd--francais--journal_internet--une/Explosifs-au-Printemps-une-revendication-exige-le-retrait-francais-d-Afghanistan.html"&gt;http://actu.voila.fr/Article/mmd--francais--journal_internet--une/Explosifs-au-Printemps-une-revendication-exige-le-retrait-francais-d-Afghanistan.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pour lire l'article avec des photos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-5821029059256659673?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/5821029059256659673/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=5821029059256659673' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2064360168002955491</id><published>2008-11-04T13:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T13:17:17.819-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Semaine de Français</title><content type='html'>L'AATF*  est heureuse d'annoncer l'organisation de la septième  Semaine de Français.  Cette fête de tout ce qui est français aura lieu dans les écoles et dans les villes et dans les chapitres de l'AATF à travers les États-Unis du 5-11 novembre 2008.  Nous demandons à nos membres et à tout Francophone intéressé de sortir le français de la salle de classe et de montrer au public toutes les bonnes raisons pour apprendre le français.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous avons choisi des thèmes pour chaque jour de la Semaine du Français&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jour 1  -  &lt;a href="http://www.frenchteachers.org/nfw/nfwthemes/cuisinfr.html"&gt;Cuisine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jour 2  - l'&lt;a href="http://www.frenchteachers.org/nfw/nfwthemes/artsfr.html"&gt;Art&lt;/a&gt; et l'&lt;a href="http://www.frenchteachers.org/nfw/nfwthemes/craftsfr.html"&gt;Artisanat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jour 3  - &lt;a href="http://www.frenchteachers.org/nfw/nfwthemes/communfr.html"&gt;Activités pour le public&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Week-end  - &lt;a href="http://www.frenchteachers.org/nfw/nfwthemes/sciencfr.html"&gt;Sciences, technologie et métiers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jour 6  - &lt;a href="http://www.frenchteachers.org/nfw/nfwthemes/sportsfr.htm"&gt;Sports, jeux et traditions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jour 7 - &lt;a href="http://www.frenchteachers.org/nfw/nfwthemes/musicfr.html"&gt;Musique et danse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* l'AATF - The American Association of Teachers of French&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2064360168002955491?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2064360168002955491/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2064360168002955491' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2064360168002955491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2064360168002955491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/11/semaine-de-franais.html' title='Semaine de Français'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8845470910452459223</id><published>2008-11-01T12:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-01T12:17:36.606-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama et McCain, l'incertitude du "dernier week-end"</title><content type='html'>ll est trop tard pour une "surprise d'octobre" dans la campagne présidentielle américaine mais les deux candidats, le démocrate Barack Obama et le républicain John McCain, ne devraient-ils pas se méfier du "dernier week-end" ? &lt;a class="offscreen" href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/4/20081031/tts-usa-election-week-end-ca02f96.html#ynw-article-part2"&gt;Lire la suite l'article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos/Vidéos liées&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/4/20081031/img/pts-alors-que-barack-obama-f509afa83a6b.html"&gt;BARACK OBAMA ET JOHN MCCAIN FACE À L'INCERTITUDE DU "DERNIER WEEK-END" Agrandir la photo &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Articles liés&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081101/tts-ultime-week-end-de-campagne-pour-oba-3a9e4ab.html"&gt;Ultime week-end de campagne pour Obama et McCain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081101/tod-sarah-palin-piegee-par-des-humoriste-7f81b96.html"&gt;Sarah Palin piégée par des humoristes québécois&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20081101/twl-usa-presidentielle-palin-portrait-224d7fb.html"&gt;L'énigme Sarah Palin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/usa-presidentielle.html"&gt;Plus d'articles sur : USA 2008 : la présidentielle américaine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.messages.news.yahoo.com/Actualit%C3%A9s/Monde/forumview?bn=FRN-WL-USA---la-prsidentielle-amricaine&amp;amp;e=h47jUgBSwPnEyCD49cDreNvp737Ah7tFMar02TH80vYtFq9kpE4D7Ov6r6uvRc5v9U.RDARur4Nmajk5zGCuM2cSH6DOu5eZFPLSZwDTAt1W3CnHj6aCz_6DBZnZfZUB27V1vQVfkB3us4g1aPAsGqm64V26IG7tIo7q"&gt;Discussion: USA 2008 : la présidentielle américaine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En plusieurs occasions, les derniers jours de la course à la Maison blanche ont réservé des surprises et influé sur l'issue du scrutin, faisant pencher les indécis dans un camp ou dans l'autre.&lt;br /&gt;D'ici mardi, le jour du vote, et alors qu'&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/dossiers/usa-presidentielle-americaine-2008.html"&gt;Obama&lt;/a&gt; est donné en tête par les sondages, un renversement de tendance paraît peu vraisemblable mais n'est pourtant pas à exclure catégoriquement.&lt;br /&gt;"Le dernier week-end peut être quelque chose de bien étrange dans une campagne présidentielle", explique Steven Schier, politologue au Carleton College, dans le Minnesota.&lt;br /&gt;"Les électeurs qui ne se sont pas jusqu'alors intéressés à la campagne dressent enfin l'oreille et les indécis font leur choix. Oui, des choses étranges peuvent se passer."&lt;br /&gt;En 2004, le chef d'&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/al-qaida.html"&gt;Al Qaïda&lt;/a&gt;, Oussama ben Laden, s'était invité dans la campagne en diffusant une nouvelle vidéo qui avait rappelé aux Américains la tragédie du 11 septembre 2001.&lt;br /&gt;La candidat démocrate John Kerry, alors au coude-à-coude avec George W. Bush dans les sondages, avait vu la course lui échapper dans les derniers jours de campagne. Pour lui, la cassette de &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/al-qaida.html"&gt;Ben Laden&lt;/a&gt; avait largement contribué à ce phénomène en réveillant les craintes de l'électorat.&lt;br /&gt;Jeudi, Abou yahya al Libi, l'un des principaux chefs de l'organisation radicale islamiste, a souhaité l'"humiliation" de Bush et des républicains le jour du scrutin dans une vidéo mise en ligne sur internet, sans prendre parti pour un quelconque camp politique.&lt;br /&gt;En 2000, le jeudi précédant le scrutin, apparaissait une nouvelle peu flatteuse pour Bush - il avait été arrêté pour conduite en état d'ivresse en 1976, alors qu'il était gouverneur du Texas, et avait fait en sorte que cette incartade ne soit pas rendue publique.&lt;br /&gt;CETTE ANNÉE, LA CRISE FINANCIÈRE&lt;br /&gt;Sa mince avance dans les sondages sur le démocrate Al Gore avait fondu et le résultat du scrutin fut si serré qu'il fallut une décision du collège électoral, après un nouveau dépouillement des voix en Floride, pour donner la victoire au candidat républicain.&lt;br /&gt;Les enquêtes d'opinion avaient montré que la révélation du "faux pas" de Bush en 1976 avait entraîné une remontée de Gore dans les derniers jours de la campagne.&lt;br /&gt;Jusqu'ici, aucune "surprise d'octobre" n'est venue brouiller les cartes, comme ce fut le cas en 1980 avec l'échec des négociations pour la libération des otages américains à Téhéran, juste avant que le démocrate Jimmy Carter ne soit battu par Ronald Reagan.&lt;br /&gt;En 1968, le président démocrate Lyndon Johnson avait ordonné l'arrêt des bombardements sur le Nord-Viêtnam une semaine avant le scrutin. Cette mesure n'avait pourtant pas suffi pour que le candidat du "parti de l'âne", le vice-président Hubert Humphrey, l'emporte face au républicain Richard Nixon.&lt;br /&gt;La seule surprise cette année - et de taille - a été la crise financière qui a éclaté en septembre, mauvaise nouvelle pour l'équipe sortante et qui a encore accentué l'avance d'Obama dans les sondages.&lt;br /&gt;Durant le week-end, les deux candidats vont poursuivre leur marathon dans des Etats où le duel s'annonce serré, comme l'Ohio, la Floride, le Missouri et le Colorado. La dernière ligne droite.&lt;br /&gt;Les derniers sondages en date accordent entre trois et huit points d'avance à Obama sur son rival. Une enquête de Fox News publiée jeudi donne trois points d'avance au candidat démocrate, contre neuf points la semaine dernière. Mais six pour cent des personnes interrogées n'ont toujours pas fait leur choix.&lt;br /&gt;"Il y a encore beaucoup d'indécis qui ne se prononceront qu'au dernier moment. Et les péripéties des derniers jours peuvent vraiment décider de l'issue du scrutin en cas de duel serré", souligne Steven Schier.&lt;br /&gt;Version française Guy Kerivel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8845470910452459223?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8845470910452459223/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8845470910452459223' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8845470910452459223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8845470910452459223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-et-mccain-lincertitude-du-dernier.html' title='Obama et McCain, l&apos;incertitude du &quot;dernier week-end&quot;'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7992924300301019088</id><published>2008-10-23T11:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T11:36:19.974-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sarkozy assigne en justice une société qui vend des poupées vaudoues à son effigie:</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SQDEFS_bqfI/AAAAAAAAABI/0sHSO6Ikdss/s1600-h/sarkozy.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260419960045021682" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 290px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 232px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SQDEFS_bqfI/AAAAAAAAABI/0sHSO6Ikdss/s320/sarkozy.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Après une action contre Ryanair et des plaintes dont la dernière contre Yves Bertrand, ex-patron des RG, &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/nicolas-sarkozy.html"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt; a saisi jeudi la justice pour cette fois faire retirer de la vente une poupée vaudoue à son effigie. &lt;a class="offscreen" href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081023/tts-sarkozy-assigne-en-justice-une-socie-c1b2fc3.html#ynw-article-part2"&gt;Lire la suite l'article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos/Vidéos liées&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081022/video/vfr-ddes-poupes-vaudou-l-effigie-de-sark-3837155.html"&gt;Ddes poupées Vaudou à l'effigie de Sarkozy et ... Lire cette vidéo &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="selected" href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081022/video/vfr-ddes-poupes-vaudou-l-effigie-de-sark-3837155.html"&gt;Ddes poupées Vaudou à l'effigie de Sarkozy et ... Lire cette vidéo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081023/img/pts-photo-2-sarkozy-assigne-1-358af3d4c32f.html"&gt;Agrandir la photo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Articles liés&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081023/tts-soutien-economie-sarkozy-annonce-des-c1b2fc3.html"&gt;Soutien à économie : Sarkozy annonce des mesures "exceptionnelles"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20081023/tpl-social-fonctionnaires-sarkozy-cfb2994.html"&gt;Les fonctionnaires qui manifestent ne se rendent pas compte "de la gravité de la crise", juge Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20081023/tpl-economie-crise-sarkozy-cdc-cfb2994.html"&gt;Sarkozy veut faire de la CDC le bras armé de sa politique indstrielle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/nicolas-sarkozy.html"&gt;Plus d'articles sur : Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.messages.news.yahoo.com/Actualit%C3%A9s/Politique/forumview?bn=FRN-PL--Nicolas-Sarkozy&amp;amp;e=aHVV.zXjqfWB74Qqj_7YIQ5_zRJv5Q0OkWDCIfa2UBEy1ZM17K2crIzW65VzDy3OO_vVFFg_x2W825xzl0aHxN64u5puurzMcZ2KHaKTy_rR"&gt;Discussion: Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette action intervient au moment où un Mayennais comparaissait jeudi pour "offense au chef de l'Etat" devant le tribunal correctionnel de Laval, pour avoir brandi une affichette "Casse toi, pauv'con" au passage du président en août.&lt;br /&gt;L'objet du litige devant le TGI de Paris est une petite poupée bleue de 20 centimètres de hauteur et l'affaire sera plaidée vendredi à 15H00.&lt;br /&gt;Depuis le 9 octobre, la maison d'édition K&amp;amp;B commercialise un coffret contenant cette poupée, un lot de 12 aiguilles, ainsi qu'un ouvrage de 56 pages intitulé "Nicolas Sarkozy, le manuel vaudou".&lt;br /&gt;Outre une biographie humoristique de M. Sarkozy, le manuel propose "un grand nombre de sortilèges magiques" et invite le lecteur à planter des aiguilles sur la poupée à son effigie.&lt;br /&gt;Au coffret bleu Nicolas Sarkozy, tiré à 20.000 exemplaires et vendu 12,95 euros, répond un coffret rouge &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/segolene-royal.html"&gt;Ségolène Royal&lt;/a&gt;, tiré à 12.000 exemplaires.&lt;br /&gt;Sur les poupées représentant M. Sarkozy figurent des inscriptions faisant référence à des épisodes ou des formules controversés de son parcours politique, comme le mot "racaille" dont M. Sarkozy avait qualifié des jeunes de banlieues défavorisées, ou encore le "Casse-toi pauv'con" lancé au salon de l'Agriculture à un homme qui avait refusé de lui serrer la main.&lt;br /&gt;Sur celles de Mme Royal sont inscrits "Vive le &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/canada.html"&gt;Québec&lt;/a&gt; libre" ou "Justice chinoise", allusions à des déclarations controversées de la socialiste sur la "souveraineté" de la province canadienne ou sur la "rapidité" de la justice chinoise.&lt;br /&gt;Plutôt amusée, l'ex-candidate &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/ps.html"&gt;PS&lt;/a&gt; à la présidentielle n'a pas jugé bon de poursuivre l'éditeur. "Ca reste ludique, et je pense qu'il faut quand même garder le sens de l'humour", a-t-elle déclaré mardi sur RTL, voyant dans ce commerce "la rançon de la notoriété".&lt;br /&gt;"Ségolène Royal a bien ri et donc le mauvais sort est conjuré!", a renchéri jeudi son avocat, Me Jean-Pierre Mignard, confirmant ne pas vouloir saisir la justice.&lt;br /&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy lui a pris l'affaire au sérieux. Dès le 16 octobre, son avocat, Me Thierry Herzog, a adressé un courrier à la société Tear Prod, dont dépendent les éditions K&amp;amp;B, réclamant le retrait de ces poupées.&lt;br /&gt;Face au silence de l'entreprise, le chef de l'Etat l'a assignée pour "violation du droit à l'image". Il réclame le retrait de la poupée et demande à Tear Prod, en redressement judiciaire depuis mars, un euro symbolique.&lt;br /&gt;Jeudi, les éditions K&amp;amp;B relativisaient la chose. Dans un communiqué, elles évoquaient la réaction mesurée de Mme Royal et estimaient les demandes de M. Sarkozy "totalement disproportionnées compte tenu de l'aspect ludique et humoristique du Manuel".&lt;br /&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy est le premier chef de l'Etat français à aller en justice pour des atteintes à son image et à sa vie privée.&lt;br /&gt;La première remonte à février. Il avait alors gagné un procès contre la compagnie aérienne Ryanair qui avait publié, à des fins publicitaires, sans autorisation, une photo de son couple.&lt;br /&gt;Le même mois, il avait déposé une plainte contre le Nouvel Observateur pour l'évocation d'un SMS prétendument adressé à son ex-épouse Cecilia. La plainte a été retirée après des excuses du journaliste.&lt;br /&gt;Dernier affaire en date: une plainte pour "dénonciation calomnieuse" contre Yves Bertrand, ex-patron des RG, après la publication d'extraits de ses "carnets" dans la presse.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7992924300301019088?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7992924300301019088/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7992924300301019088' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7992924300301019088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7992924300301019088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/10/sarkozy-assigne-en-justice-une-socit.html' title='Sarkozy assigne en justice une société qui vend des poupées vaudoues à son effigie:'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SQDEFS_bqfI/AAAAAAAAABI/0sHSO6Ikdss/s72-c/sarkozy.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-6897442081820820376</id><published>2008-10-21T11:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T11:44:53.504-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Formation dans le laboratoire de langue</title><content type='html'>&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259678603328239090" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SP4h0qAaNfI/AAAAAAAAABA/K5slHb8yxEw/s320/Berkshire+%2708-%2709+042.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Des profs de langue dans notre nouveau laboratoire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-6897442081820820376?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/6897442081820820376/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=6897442081820820376' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6897442081820820376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6897442081820820376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/10/formation-dans-le-laboratoire-de-langue.html' title='Formation dans le laboratoire de langue'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SP4h0qAaNfI/AAAAAAAAABA/K5slHb8yxEw/s72-c/Berkshire+%2708-%2709+042.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-6950675252401136028</id><published>2008-10-08T16:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-08T16:24:32.443-07:00</updated><title type='text'>WTA Moscou - Mauresmo, la tête haute</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/te/profile/259.html"&gt;Amélie Mauresmo&lt;/a&gt; n'est pas passée loin de l'exploit au 2e tour du tournoi WTA de Moscou ! Après avoir empochée le premier set au tie-break contre la Russe &lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/te/profile/1500000000003014.html"&gt;Dinara Safina&lt;/a&gt;, tête de série N.2, la Française a concédé les deux suivants sur le score de 6-4, 6-4. &lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/te/profile/3196.html"&gt;Ana Ivanovic&lt;/a&gt; est déjà sortie !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus d'infos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/tennis/wta-moscou/femme/p1/"&gt;WTA Moscou: Tableau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/video/07102008/70/best-of-mauresmo-cornet.html"&gt;VIDEO: Mauresmo: "Défier Safina"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WTA MOSCOU - 2e tour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/te/profile/3376.html"&gt;Dominika Cibulkova&lt;/a&gt; (SLQ) bat Ana Ivanovic (SER/N.4) 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(7/4).Prochaine adversaire : Zvonareva ou Hantuchova.&lt;br /&gt;Ana Ivanovic est toujours en convalescence... psychologique. Sans résultat depuis sa victoire à &lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/tennis/roland-garros/"&gt;Roland-Garros&lt;/a&gt;, la jeune Serbe, N.5 mondiale, est tombée dès son entrée en lice au 2e tour du tournoi de Moscou face à Dominika Cibulkova en trois manches. Sans nul doute l'une des révélations de l'année, la Slovaque a mis 2h30 pour faire vaciller l'ex-N.1 mondiale pour réaliser sa seconde meilleure performance de la saison, deux mois après avoir battu &lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/te/profile/2815.html"&gt;Jelena Jankovic&lt;/a&gt;, alors N.2, en quart de finale à Montréal.&lt;br /&gt;Pourtant à l'aise au service (12 aces et 58% de premières balles), Ivanovic a eu l'occasion de plier le match lors du troisième set qu'elle a mené 5-3. En face, Cibulkova a commis 9 doubles fautes (contre 5 pour son adversaire) et aucun ace. Son salut est venu de la défense des balles de break que s'est procurées Ivanovic : sur ses seize occasions, la Serbe n'en a converti que cinq... Après une manche partout, c'est un jeu décisif qui a départagé les deux jeunes joueuses : si Ivanovic a fait la course en tête, c'est Cibulkova qui a finalement pris l'ascendant en concluant le match 7 points à 4 sur une faute directe de la Serbe en coup droit.&lt;br /&gt;Pour Ivanovic, son chemin de croix se poursuit. Depuis &lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/tennis/wimbledon/"&gt;Wimbledon&lt;/a&gt;, la Serbe a remporté cinq matches et perdu six fois. Un triste bilan pour la vainqueur 2008 d'Indian Wells et de Roland-Garros qui n'avait jamais connu pareille mésaventure dans sa carrière. Pour Cibulkova, deux fois finaliste cette saison à Amelia Island et Montréal, sa montée en puissance continue et pourrait se poursuivre face à Zvonareva ou Hantuchova qui sont encore en lice pour disputer les Masters en fin de saison.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-6950675252401136028?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/6950675252401136028/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=6950675252401136028' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6950675252401136028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6950675252401136028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/10/wta-moscou-mauresmo-la-tte-haute.html' title='WTA Moscou - Mauresmo, la tête haute'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7994587238006966450</id><published>2008-10-08T16:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-08T16:20:29.011-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La thérapie de choc des banques centrales n'apaise pas la fièvre boursière</title><content type='html'>AFP - il y a 30 minutes&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON (AFP) - Un vent de panique a soufflé à nouveau mercredi sur les Bourses mondiales qui ont poursuivi leur plongeon entamé lundi, malgré la baisse surprise des taux directeurs des grandes banques centrales et un plan de choc qui revient à une nationalisation partielle des banques britanniques.&lt;br /&gt;La dégringolade a été accentuée par les sombres perspectives du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) pour l'économie mondiale, annonçant un coup d'arrêt brutal à la croissance, qui n'atteindrait que 0,1% aux Etats-Unis et 0,2% dans la zone euro l'an prochain.&lt;br /&gt;"Reprenez vos esprits", a lancé le président de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE), Jean-Claude Trichet, en direction des marchés financiers. "Le pessimisme excessif est très mauvais conseiller".&lt;br /&gt;Dans un geste sans précédent depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, six banques centrales -- la BCE, la Réserve fédérale américaine (Fed) et leurs homologues suédoise, britannique, canadienne et suisse -- ont annoncé une baisse d'un demi-point de leurs taux directeurs. Au même moment la &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/chine.html"&gt;Chine&lt;/a&gt; a elle aussi annoncé une baisse du loyer de l'argent.&lt;br /&gt;Autre mesure phare, annoncée par le gouvernement britannique: un plan de sauvetage des banques qui pourra passer par leur nationalisation partielle à hauteur de 50 milliards de livres (65 milliards d'euros).&lt;br /&gt;Mais rien ne semblait pouvoir rassurer les investisseurs, affolés par la poursuite de la crise et ses répercussions sur l'économie, en dépit des initiatives des gouvernements, qui se sont multipliées depuis l'adoption vendredi aux Etats-Unis du Plan Paulson, doté de 700 milliards de dollars.&lt;br /&gt;Wall Street a perdu 2% au terme d'une séance en montagnes russes, tandis que la Bourse de Sao Paulo, première place d'Amérique latine, a accusé une chute de 3,82%.&lt;br /&gt;Auparavant, les Bourses européennes avaient clôturé en forte baisse: Londres a plongé de 5,18%, Francfort de 5,88% et Paris de 6,39%. En &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/asie.html"&gt;Asie&lt;/a&gt;, Tokyo a dévissé de 9,38%, une baisse historique, la plus forte depuis plus de 20 ans.&lt;br /&gt;La thérapie de choc des banques centrales a été saluée par la France et l'&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/allemagne.html"&gt;Allemagne&lt;/a&gt; et, aux Etats-Unis, elle a fait l'unanimité, une fois n'est pas coutume, auprès des deux rivaux dans la course à la Maison Blanche, le républicain John McCain et le démocrate &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/dossiers/usa-presidentielle-americaine-2008.html"&gt;Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Toutefois, la baisse de taux décidée par la Réserve fédérale est insuffisante pour sortir les Etats-Unis de la crise, jugeaient mercredi les analystes.&lt;br /&gt;Les mesures adoptées par le Congrès américain pour faire face à la crise financière commenceront à porter leurs fruits dans deux semaines et demie, a déclaré par téléphone le président américain George W. Bush à son homologue brésilien Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, selon des propos rapportés par un porte-parole de la présidence du &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/bresil.html"&gt;Brésil&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Le secrétaire au Trésor américain Henry Paulson a déclaré que d'autres faillites d'institutions financières étaient à prévoir aux Etats-Unis malgré le plan de sauvetage des banques.&lt;br /&gt;"Même avec les nouveaux outils du Trésor, certaines institutions financières vont faire faillite", a reconnu M. Paulson, qui a souligné que la patience était nécessaire face à des turbulences sur les marchés "qui ne vont pas se terminer rapidement".&lt;br /&gt;Comme pour lui donner raison, la Fed a annoncé qu'elle allait fournir à l'assureur AIG, qui avait été nationalisé à la mi-septembre, 37,8 milliards de dollars de liquidités supplémentaires, après que ce dernier eût consommé une grande partie du prêt de 85 milliards fourni par la Fed.&lt;br /&gt;L'euro a été dopé par la baisse des taux, valant 1,3660 dollar vers 20H40 GMT, contre 1,3599 dollar mardi soir. Les prix du pétrole ont reculé à 88,95 dollars, en baisse de 1,11 dollar par rapport à la clôture de mardi.&lt;br /&gt;Les gouvernements restaient mobilisés sur tous les fronts pour renforcer le système bancaire et éviter un assèchement complet du crédit.&lt;br /&gt;Le chef du gouvernement italien Silvio Berlusconi a annoncé que le Trésor entrerait dans le capital des banques en cas de besoin, mais avec des actions sans droits de vote, excluant ainsi une nationalisation.&lt;br /&gt;La France mettra en place une structure juridique permettant à l'Etat d'intervenir financièrement en faveur des banques françaises.&lt;br /&gt;Le Premier ministre britannique Gordon Brown a invité les autres pays de l'&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/union-europeenne.html"&gt;UE&lt;/a&gt; à adopter un "plan européen de financement" du système bancaire, un projet déjà évoqué par l'&lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/italie.html"&gt;Italie&lt;/a&gt; et les &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/pays-bas.html"&gt;Pays-Bas&lt;/a&gt;, mais rejeté par l'Allemagne.&lt;br /&gt;Une réforme de la régulation du système financier, proposée par Londres, devrait figurer au menu de la réunion vendredi à Washington des ministres des Finances et banquiers centraux des pays du G7 (Allemagne, &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/canada.html"&gt;Canada&lt;/a&gt;, Etats-Unis, France, Italie, &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/japon.html"&gt;Japon&lt;/a&gt; et Royaume-Uni).&lt;br /&gt;Une réunion du Groupe des 20 (G20), rassemblant les ministres et banquiers centraux des principaux pays riches et émergents, aura lieu samedi à Washington en marge des réunions d'automne du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) et de la Banque mondiale.&lt;br /&gt;La chancelière allemande Angela Merkel et le président français &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/fc/nicolas-sarkozy.html"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt; "sont convenus que les actions de l'Allemagne et de la France relatives à la crise financière seront totalement coordonnées", a annoncé l'Elysée.&lt;br /&gt;Le grand chambardement du paysage bancaire s'est poursuivi: la Caisse d'Epargne a approuvé son projet de fusion avec la Banque Populaire, un mariage qui permettrait de créer la deuxième banque de dépôts française.&lt;br /&gt;En Islande, l'Etat a pris officiellement le contrôle de la banque Glitnir, au bord de la faillite. Fait inédit, un millier d'Islandais se sont rassemblés à Reykjavik pour exprimer leur inquiétude face à la crise financière qui menace de mettre à genoux leur pays.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7994587238006966450?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7994587238006966450/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7994587238006966450' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7994587238006966450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7994587238006966450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/10/la-thrapie-de-choc-des-banques.html' title='La thérapie de choc des banques centrales n&apos;apaise pas la fièvre boursière'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-5787485413458331052</id><published>2008-10-05T13:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T13:20:16.428-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lance Armstrong ne voit pas "où est l'embarras"</title><content type='html'>L'Américain &lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/cy/profiles/520.html"&gt;Lance Armstrong&lt;/a&gt; a répliqué samedi aux insinuations sur ces sept victoires dans le &lt;a href="http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/cyclisme/tour-de-france/index.html"&gt;Tour de France&lt;/a&gt;, en estimant que la Grande Boucle n'avait jamais été aussi populaire que sous son règne.&lt;br /&gt;"J'ai gagné le Tour sept années consécutives et je n'ai jamais été convaincu de dopage malgré sept ans d'intense surveillance", affirme le Texan dans un communiqué.&lt;br /&gt;"Nous avons gagné de manière propre et honnête. En plus, selon les chiffres, il n'y a jamais eu autant d'audience télé, de couverture de médias dans le monde entier, de spectateurs le long de la route, et de parraineurs", ajoute le coureur, dont le retour à la compétition l'année prochaine a jeté l'émoi dans le monde cycliste.&lt;br /&gt;Il se demande "où est l'embarras, là-dedans ?", répondant ainsi au nouveau président d'ASO, la société organisatrice du Tour, Jean-Etienne Amaury, qui avait déclaré dans le journal L'Equipe, appartenant au même groupe familial: "On ne peut pas dire qu'il n'embarrasse pas le Tour de France puisqu'il a avec lui une histoire assez compliquée".&lt;br /&gt;Armstrong rappelle que "son principal objectif en 2009 est de susciter une large conscientisation sur la maladie qui tue huit millions de gens chaque année dans le monde", le cancer.&lt;br /&gt;"Ca a pris une telle tournure que, bien que j'aime cette compétition et les Français, je ne peux pas accepter ce genre de mise en avant qui dévie du message de Livestrong (sa fondation, NDLR)", dit-il.&lt;br /&gt;Deux jours plus tôt, Armstrong avait déjà refusé la proposition qui lui était faite par l'Agence française de lutte contre le dopage (AFLD) de procéder à une nouvelles analyse des échantillons prélevés pendant le Tour de France 1999 "pour couper court aux rumeurs qui le concernent si elles sont infondées".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-5787485413458331052?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/5787485413458331052/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=5787485413458331052' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5787485413458331052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5787485413458331052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/10/lance-armstrong-ne-voit-pas-o-est.html' title='Lance Armstrong ne voit pas &quot;où est l&apos;embarras&quot;'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-346707579149488072</id><published>2008-09-22T13:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T13:36:37.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pas d'Anglais Parlé Ici!!</title><content type='html'>Après six semaines à l'Ecole Française à Middlebury College cet été, on est très motivé de continuer avec le thème de l'école. Cette année dans nos cours on ne va pas parler que français. Il n'y a pas d'engagement d'honneur (the Language Pledge) qu'on signe à Middlebury, mais mes élèves vont essayer de ne pas parler anglais pendant les cours de français. Regardez notre blog et vous verrez des photos de Berkshire Hall et notre nouveau laboratoire et vous verrez aussi des articles des élèves. Amusez-vous bien et contribuez, si vous voulez.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-346707579149488072?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/346707579149488072/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=346707579149488072' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/346707579149488072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/346707579149488072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/09/pas-danglais-parl-ici.html' title='Pas d&apos;Anglais Parlé Ici!!'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8435046952971209851</id><published>2008-09-21T13:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T13:25:17.784-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Interdit de parler anglais ici</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNatgqBohdI/AAAAAAAAAA4/Na8Wuz0QR04/s1600-h/no+english.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 217px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNatgqBohdI/AAAAAAAAAA4/Na8Wuz0QR04/s320/no+english.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248573192295450066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8435046952971209851?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8435046952971209851/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8435046952971209851' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8435046952971209851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8435046952971209851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/09/interdit-de-parler-anglais-ici.html' title='Interdit de parler anglais ici'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNatgqBohdI/AAAAAAAAAA4/Na8Wuz0QR04/s72-c/no+english.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7010097457611409623</id><published>2008-04-13T04:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-13T04:22:25.655-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chirac Undergoes Pacemaker Operation</title><content type='html'>Saturday 12 April 2008                                                                                                from France 24/7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jacques Chirac underwent surgery Friday to implant a pacemaker. The 75-year old former French president is to return home over the weekend, according to a statement from his office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Former French president Jacques Chirac underwent successful surgery early Friday in Paris to implant a pacemaker, his office said.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 75-year-old former leader was admitted to La Pitie Salpetriere hospital Thursday evening for the procedure that was scheduled several days ago following a routine checkup.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chirac, who handed over to President Nicolas Sarkozy in May last year, is to return home at the weekend, a statement from his office said.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 12 years as president, Chirac set up a foundation devoted to the environment, sustainable development and promoting understanding among cultures.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But he has also been placed under investigation for misuse of city funds dating from the time when he was mayor of Paris, from 1977 to 1995.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2005, he suffered a health scare when he was admitted to hospital for a week following what was described as a minor cerebral vascular accident. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; He had recently received a warm welcome at the annual farm fair in Paris where he spent nearly four hours chatting with farmers and patting cows&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7010097457611409623?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7010097457611409623/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7010097457611409623' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7010097457611409623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7010097457611409623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/04/chirac-undergoes-pacemaker-operation.html' title='Chirac Undergoes Pacemaker Operation'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2996084966666726363</id><published>2008-04-12T17:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-12T17:50:37.421-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pirates Captured After French Hostage Release</title><content type='html'>Saturday 12 April 2008                                                                                                            By Reuters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French military officials captured six pirates who had seized a luxury yacht off the Somali coast. The former hostages, released through the payment of a ransom, are expected back in Paris on Monday. (Report: M. Henbest)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, April 11 (Reuters) - The 30-strong crew of a luxury French yacht seized by Somali pirates a week ago were freed without incident on Friday but French troops later captured half the pirates, French military officials said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;France sent a warship and special forces to the region after the pirates seized the three-master in the Gulf of Aden last Friday and troops were standing by as negotiations to free the hostages took place on Friday morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pirates had sailed the yacht, the Ponant, to the Somali coast, eventually mooring the vessel at Garaad, near the town of Eyl. French officials said earlier this week they believed the group was holding the crew only for ransom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; After the hostages were released and taken to a French warship, helicopter-borne troops tracked the pirates who had landed in Somalia and captured six, Jean-Louis Georgelin, head of the armed forces general staff, told a news conference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The six, roughly half the pirate group, were being held aboard a French warship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The president expresses his deep gratitude to the French armed forces and all the state services which enabled a rapid and peaceful solution to this hostage-taking," French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said in a statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the entire story, including pictures and a video, go to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080412-pirates-captured-french-hostages-released-somalia-ransom&amp;amp;navi=FRANCE"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080412-pirates-captured-french-hostages-released-somalia-ransom&amp;amp;navi=FRANCE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2996084966666726363?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2996084966666726363/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2996084966666726363' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2996084966666726363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2996084966666726363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/04/pirates-captured-after-french-hostage.html' title='Pirates Captured After French Hostage Release'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-5006608280047894826</id><published>2008-04-08T19:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-08T19:48:32.953-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paris Protests Cut Short Olympic Torch Relay</title><content type='html'>Tuesday 08 April 2008                                                                                  By FRANCE 24 with wires&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pro-Tibetan protesters succeeded in disrupting the Olympic torch relay in Paris, forcing officials to put the torch on a bus after a day of clashes that saw the flame extinguished three times. (Report : R. Thompsett)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was billed by the Chinese authorities as “the harmonious journey,” but the Paris leg of the 2008 Olympic torch relay Monday did not go according to script, with protests, arrests and scuffles between &lt;a title="blocked::http://www.france24.com/en/20080321-tibet-china-2008-olympic-monk-protest-crackdown&amp;amp;navi=" href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080321-tibet-china-2008-olympic-monk-protest-crackdown&amp;amp;navi=DOSSIERS"&gt;pro-Tibet demonstrators&lt;/a&gt; and security officials disrupting the flame’s passage through the French capital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three times in the course of its &lt;a href="http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/journey/paris/"&gt;28-kilometer route &lt;/a&gt;through the City of Lights, the Olympic flame was extinguished by security officials and the torch was finally put on a bus for the final leg of the Paris relay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After four hours of a chaotic journey through the streets of Paris, Chinese officials finally called off the relay, with the torch reaching the Charléty Stadium, on the southern edge of Paris, by bus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reporting from the Charléty Stadium, FRANCE 24's Lanah Kammourieh,  following the relay, said the torch arrived “quite discreetly” at the stadium. “The torch arrived on a bus, and there were only some fireworks to signal that it had arrived at its final destination after a hectic day,” she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following a pattern throughout the day, protesters at the stadium attempted to disrupt the proceedings, said Kammourieh. “One man tried to chain himself to the tramway right near the Charléty Stadium,” she said. “Other protesters attempted to unfurl a banner against the Beijing Games, but they were stopped by the police.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the full story which includes photos and a video, go to ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080407-olmpics-torch-relay-paris-cut-short-protests-tibet-china-2008-games-france-beijing&amp;amp;navi=FRANCE"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080407-olmpics-torch-relay-paris-cut-short-protests-tibet-china-2008-games-france-beijing&amp;amp;navi=FRANCE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-5006608280047894826?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/5006608280047894826/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=5006608280047894826' title='4 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5006608280047894826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5006608280047894826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/04/paris-protests-cut-short-olympic-torch.html' title='Paris Protests Cut Short Olympic Torch Relay'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4596595821585316309</id><published>2008-04-08T11:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-08T11:54:37.679-07:00</updated><title type='text'>FARC Rejects Medical Aid to Betancourt</title><content type='html'>Tuesday 08 April 2008                                                                                                                   By AFP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A French medical mission to aid French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt has been rejected by the Colombian guerrilla group FARC. "Our actions are not determined by blackmail or by the media," the FARC said in a press release.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leftist Colombian rebels on Tuesday rejected a French humanitarian mission trying to assist hostages that include ailing French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; France sent a jet with doctors and diplomats on board to Colombia last week in hopes of getting access to Betancourt, 46, who was said to be gravely ill.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"For the same reasons given the ICRC (International Red Cross) on January 17, the French medical mission is not appropriate and, moreover, is not the result of an agreement," read a statement from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, issued through the pro-rebel Bolivarian News Agency. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The French mission is "the result of the bad faith of (Colombian President Alvaro) Uribe before the (French) government, and heartlessly mocks the expectation of the relativs of the prisoners," the statement added. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; "We do not act under blackmail or under pressure from media campaigns," read the statement. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The statement claimed that if Uribe had cleared an area in southern Colombia earlier in the year, as the rebels requested, then Betancourt and the other hostages "would already have recovered their freedom, and it would have been a victory for all."  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FARC guerrillas snatched Betancourt in February 2002 as she campaigned for the Colombian presidency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the entire story, go to  &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080408-ingrid-betancourt-colombia-farc-medical-aid-refuse&amp;amp;navi=MONDE"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080408-ingrid-betancourt-colombia-farc-medical-aid-refuse&amp;amp;navi=MONDE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4596595821585316309?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4596595821585316309/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4596595821585316309' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4596595821585316309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4596595821585316309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/04/farc-rejects-medical-aid-to-betancourt.html' title='FARC Rejects Medical Aid to Betancourt'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-9024856211115542074</id><published>2008-04-06T20:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-06T20:32:33.788-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Olympic Flame Arrives in Paris</title><content type='html'>Monday 07 April 2008  from France 24 International News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After scuffles disrupted its tour round London, the Olympic flame arrived in Paris late on Sunday. Torchbearers are set to carry it through the French capital on Monday where campaigners are planning protests over China's human rights record.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Olympic flame arrived at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport late on Sunday, an airport official said, ahead of a high-security tour through the French capital where campaigners are planning protests over China's human rights record.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The flame was welcomed China's ambassador to France, M. Kong Quan and former athlete Guy Drut, according to the airport official.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The flame was to be transported by a convoy of 40 motorcycles to a hotel in the city that has been surrounded by police.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; On Monday, police plan to secure a perimeter of some 200 metres (yards) around the torch as it is carried in relay by 80 runners on a 28-kilometre (18-mile) route through Paris from the Eiffel Tower to a stadium in the south of the capital. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The torchbearers will be protected by a cordon of 65 motorcycle police, 100 firemen, another 100 police on roller blades and nearly 50 vehicles with more than 200 riot police.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Sunday, the torch made a chaotic trip through London, where police battled to keep pro-Tibet protesters away from the flame and made 37 arrests.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-9024856211115542074?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/9024856211115542074/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=9024856211115542074' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/9024856211115542074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/9024856211115542074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/04/olympic-flame-arrives-in-paris.html' title='Olympic Flame Arrives in Paris'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8435832030554234827</id><published>2008-04-06T11:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-06T11:59:56.376-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Contact Established With Pirates Holding French Yacht</title><content type='html'>From France 24/7   and AFP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;France has made contact with pirates holding a luxury French cruise yacht with around 30 crew off the coast of Somalia, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a radio interview Sunday.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We've made contact and the matter could last a long time," Kouchner told France Inter. "Our contact needs to be fruitful and we have to do everything to avoid bloodshed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He did not rule out the payment of a ransom to secure the release of the crew -- 22 French nationals and around 10 Ukrainians.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The French military kept up its surveillance of the hijacked vessel as it was taken toward a pirate lair off northeast Somalia, officials said earlier.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defence Minister Herve Morin said there could be no military intervention unless the safety of the crew could be guaranteed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Any order to launch a military operation "cannot be taken unless there is certainty that this will happen in secure conditions that preserve the integrity of the crew," he said.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somali officials said that the 32-cabin yacht, the Ponant, was seized on Friday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since then a dozen pirates had stayed on board and it had travelled more than 400 kilometres (249 miles) south, along the Somali coast.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We are getting information that the pirates are now moving towards the southern coastal area of Garaad where I believe they will stay," said Abdullahi Said Aw-Yusuf, an official with the semi-autonomous region of Puntland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the full story including a picture, go to &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080406-contact-pirates-yacht-somalia-france-ponant&amp;amp;navi=MONDE"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080406-contact-pirates-yacht-somalia-france-ponant&amp;amp;navi=MONDE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8435832030554234827?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8435832030554234827/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8435832030554234827' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8435832030554234827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8435832030554234827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/04/contact-established-with-pirates.html' title='Contact Established With Pirates Holding French Yacht'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7966415111310066107</id><published>2008-04-06T05:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-06T05:36:47.716-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Colombia's Uribe Approves French Mission to Meet Hostage Betancourt</title><content type='html'>Tuesday, April 1                                                                                                       The Associated Press&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colombia's president said Tuesday he had approved a French mission to try to meet with hostages held by leftist rebels, including gravely ill politician Ingrid Betancourt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mission would be "to protect the deteriorating health of the hostages," President Alvaro Uribe said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Betancourt, who holds both French and Colombian nationality, is being held along with dozens of other hostages by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Paris, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he had called Uribe to inform him France was sending a humanitarian mission "without delay to contact the FARC and obtain access to our compatriot," his office said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uribe said once Colombia's military has the co-ordinates of the location for any meeting between the French delegation and the rebels, it will temporarily suspend military operations in the zone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier Tuesday, Sarkozy implored the rebels in a televised message to free Betancourt, whom he said was in danger of dying. Betancourt, who has spent six years in captivity, is said to be suffering from Hepatitis B and a skin disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a televised message to rebel leader Manuel Marulanda, Sarkozy said the latest information about the health of Betancourt is "profoundly alarming."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ingrid is in danger of imminent death," Sarkozy said. "Since only a decision from you to save this woman from death is needed … Take this decision. Free Ingrid Betancourt."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rebels want to swap Betancourt, 46, and dozens of other hostages, including three U.S. defence contractors, for all FARC rebels imprisoned in Colombia and the United States.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7966415111310066107?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7966415111310066107/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7966415111310066107' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7966415111310066107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7966415111310066107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/04/colombias-uribe-approves-french-mission.html' title='Colombia&apos;s Uribe Approves French Mission to Meet Hostage Betancourt'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-6979115791427599125</id><published>2008-03-23T06:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-23T07:01:36.658-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cecilia ex-Sarkozy Marries Again</title><content type='html'>from France 24 International News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The former wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to tie the knot for the third time in New York on Sunday. Her new husband-to-be is the wealthy French publicist Richard Attias. (Story: P.-L. Viollat, C. Moore)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the entire story which includes a video, go to &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/france"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/france&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-6979115791427599125?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/6979115791427599125/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=6979115791427599125' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6979115791427599125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6979115791427599125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/cecilia-ex-sarkozy-marries-again.html' title='Cecilia ex-Sarkozy Marries Again'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-5404351506932242556</id><published>2008-03-23T06:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-23T06:56:26.874-07:00</updated><title type='text'>French Growth Forecasts 'Slightly Lower' Than Planned</title><content type='html'>Friday 21 March 2008                                                                                                                    By AFP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The French economy is likely to suffer a modest slowdown in the first half of the year in the face of a global financial crisis and inflation of around 3.0 percent, the nationmal statistics agency said Friday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The agency, known as INSEE, forecast momentum of 0.4 percent in the first quarter and 0.3 percent in the second.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Thursday predicted growth of 0.4 percent in the first and second quarters of 2008.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INSEE said that to achieve an overall expansion of 2.0 percent this year, the government target, the French economy would have to grow 0.8 percent in the third and fourth quarters. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; But analysts caution that such a pace might prove unrealistic given the constraints on the world economy and a global credit crunch brought on by a sharp downturn in the US housing market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the entire story, go to &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080321-french-growth-forecasts-lower-planned-france-economy-insee-oecd"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080321-french-growth-forecasts-lower-planned-france-economy-insee-oecd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-5404351506932242556?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/5404351506932242556/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=5404351506932242556' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5404351506932242556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5404351506932242556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/french-growth-forecasts-slightly-lower.html' title='French Growth Forecasts &apos;Slightly Lower&apos; Than Planned'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7982813231063926340</id><published>2008-03-22T05:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-22T06:05:03.159-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Legacy of '68</title><content type='html'>Saturday 22 March 2008                                                             By Caroline Delabroy/ FRANCE 24&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The famed revolution of May '68 began with university students but spread far beyond, changing the fundamentals of French society and culture. With the 40th anniversary of the revolts nigh, some ask whether their legacy continues.(Report: J.Jackson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, there remain persistent symbols of the demonstrations that took France by storm in May '68. One of these is Daniel Cohn-Bendit, currently president of the European Green Party. In January 1968, he called upon the then Minister for Youth and Sports to inaugurate the swimming pool at the University of Nanterre, in the slums of the Parisian suburbs. The minister objected to the prospect of a pool open to both sexes. “If you’re having sexual needs, go take a cold shower,” said the minister.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This anecdote reveals the social climate that motivated thousands of students to take to the streets. The commonly accepted date for the beginning of the revolt is March 22, when a group of students took over the Nanterre campus. This “March 22nd movement” evolved into the May ‘68 protests&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Filmmaker Romain Goupil, who was in high school at the time of the revolts, told FRANCE 24, “At Nanterre, we demanded the liberation of a student arrested for participating in an anti-Vietnam protest.” He goes on to say that his most vivid memory of the time was “the unbelievable battle of the famous night of the barricades. It was like the revolutions of 1848. We were spiritual descendants of a revolutionary history.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 68, as controversial as ever&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the March 22 movement, classes were suspended in Nanterre until April 1 to avoid further trouble. Students retreated to a large amphitheatre in the Sorbonne. On May 3, the Sorbonne was forcibly evacuated. The violent incidents that followed that night resulted in 600 arrests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year marks the 40th anniversary of these events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;go to &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080321-caroline-delabroy-68-student-revolution-anniversary"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080321-caroline-delabroy-68-student-revolution-anniversary&lt;/a&gt;    to read the entire report which includes a video.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7982813231063926340?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7982813231063926340/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7982813231063926340' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7982813231063926340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7982813231063926340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/legacy-of-68.html' title='The Legacy of &apos;68'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-3663716967506468722</id><published>2008-03-21T06:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T06:07:53.791-07:00</updated><title type='text'>French-speakers Celebrate Their Language</title><content type='html'>March 20 is International Francophony Day, a celebration of the French language. There are some 200 million French speakers throughout the world today. (Report: C.Westerheide)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to see the video go to&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080321-en-nw-pkg-adapt-francophoni400wmv-en-nw-pkg-adapt-francophoni400wmv-&amp;amp;navi=FRANCE"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080321-en-nw-pkg-adapt-francophoni400wmv-en-nw-pkg-adapt-francophoni400wmv-&amp;amp;navi=FRANCE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-3663716967506468722?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/3663716967506468722/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=3663716967506468722' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3663716967506468722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3663716967506468722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/french-speakers-celebrate-their.html' title='French-speakers Celebrate Their Language'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4961460269097282955</id><published>2008-03-20T05:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-20T05:31:13.603-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Woman Denied Euthanasia Found Dead</title><content type='html'>Wednesday 19 March 2008                                                                                                By Reuters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chantal Sébire, a 52 year old Frenchwoman suffering from an incurable tumour, was found dead Wednesday. She had failed on Monday in her bid to set a legal precedent in France for patients seeking euthanasia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She had failed on Monday in her bid to set a legal precedent in France for patients seeking medical help to end their own lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; A court in the eastern city of Dijon ruled that Chantal Sebire, 52, could not have a doctor help her die because it would breach both the code of medical ethics and the law, under which assisted suicide is a crime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ms Sebire's request, which is understandable in human terms, cannot succeed in law," the court said in its ruling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; "While Ms. Sebire's physical deterioration deserves compassion, under French law the judge must reject the request."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Although active euthanasia is illegal in France, a 2005 law allows doctors to withhold treatment with a patient's consent in certain circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sebire, whose face is painfully bloated and distorted by the rare tumour growing in her sinuses, sought permission for assisted suicide in the hope of establishing a precedent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to read the entire article and see a video of Ms. Sebire, go to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080319-france-euthanasia-chantal-sebire-dijon"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080319-france-euthanasia-chantal-sebire-dijon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4961460269097282955?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4961460269097282955/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4961460269097282955' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4961460269097282955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4961460269097282955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/woman-denied-euthanasia-found-dead.html' title='Woman Denied Euthanasia Found Dead'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8056899337766355650</id><published>2008-03-19T07:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-19T07:50:17.192-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sarkozy's Wife Assails Journalist Over Text Message Report</title><content type='html'>PARIS (AFP) - France's new first lady Carla Bruni on Wednesday accused a journalist of dishonesty for reporting that President Nicolas Sarkozy had sent his ex-wife a text message asking her to come back to him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a statement to Le Monde, Bruni also said that Sarkozy had decided to drop a lawsuit against the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur which ran the report, after the journalist apologised to her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarkozy last month lodged the complaint against the weekly for reporting he had sent a text message to ex-wife Cecilia eight days before his marriage to Bruni that said: "If you come back, I'll call it all off."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarkozy last month lodged the complaint against the weekly for reporting he had sent a text message to ex-wife Cecilia eight days before his marriage to Bruni that said: "If you come back, I'll call it all off."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What is dishonest and worrisome in this whole episode is that at no point was this 'information' checked, corroborated or confirmed," said Bruni in a statement called: "Stop the slander."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Journalist Airy Routier separately confirmed he had written to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to apologise for any unpleasantness she may have suffered, but he added that he stood by his story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It was a personal letter in which I never called into question the authenticity of the SMS. I am totally firm on that point," said Routier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During questioning by police earlier this month, Cecilia had denied receiving such a text message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The president had filed suit on February 7 against the weekly's website for falsification and other charges in the case, a first by a sitting president in France.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarkozy remarried on February 2, less than four months after ending his stormy 11-year marriage to Cecilia, with whom he has a young son, Louis. The couple announced their divorce on October 18.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"My husband is not attacking the freedom of the press," wrote Bruni, a former supermodel turned singer. "Far from being a despot, he is protecting everyone's freedom."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz is to marry events organiser Richard Attias in New York on Saturday. She had briefly left Sarkozy in 2005 for Attias.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8056899337766355650?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8056899337766355650/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8056899337766355650' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8056899337766355650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8056899337766355650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/sarkozys-wife-assails-journalist-over.html' title='Sarkozy&apos;s Wife Assails Journalist Over Text Message Report'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8267518131735548891</id><published>2008-03-19T05:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-19T05:40:22.466-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sarkozy Reshuffles Cabinet</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Tuesday 18 March 2008                                                                            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span &gt;French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a minor cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday with six new junior cabinet ministers, including Anne-Marie Idrac.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;LE PETIT BORNAND, France, March 18 (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a minor cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday but vowed to pursue reform plans after his centre-right UMP party suffered big losses in local elections at the weekend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;"What is sure is that I will need to take a certain number of initiatives to continue the changes that are needed for our country," he said at the sidelines of a commemoration for France's World War Two resistance movement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;"I was elected to conduct these policies and that's what I am going to do," he said.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The comments, shortly before the appointment of six new junior ministers including new secretaries of state for foreign trade and employment, repeated the government line that there would be no change of course after the election.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;An opinion poll by the BVA polling institute showed 63 percent of those questioned judged the government's economic policies bad or very bad, against 58 percent a month ago.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;to read the complete story go to &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080318-sarkozy-reshuffles-cabinet-france-politics"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080318-sarkozy-reshuffles-cabinet-france-politics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8267518131735548891?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8267518131735548891/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8267518131735548891' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8267518131735548891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8267518131735548891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/sarkozy-reshuffles-cabinet.html' title='Sarkozy Reshuffles Cabinet'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2127453386757257919</id><published>2008-03-18T05:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T05:48:42.907-07:00</updated><title type='text'>French Police Sweep Housing Project, Arresting 19</title><content type='html'>The Associated Press                                                                                    Published: March 17, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a id="articleLocation" title="Click to view map" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/17/europe/EU-GEN-France-Police-Sweep.php#"&gt;PARIS&lt;/a&gt;: More than 350 police swept through a housing project south of Paris early Monday, arresting 19 people, including 12 minors, in an operation targeting suspects who attacked police earlier in the month, authorities said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Riot police raided the Grande-Borne project in Grigny at about 6 a.m. Monday, a police official said without elaborating. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie had called the March 2 attack an "ambush" on officers responding to a call about vandalism. About 30 people, some armed, were waiting for the officers. Three police were hit in face with buckshot while another was hospitalized after being hit in the leg with buckshot and nails, officials said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The interior minister noted her "determination to never leave unpunished aggressions against police officers, particularly when committed with firearms."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sweep recalled a similar, though much larger, operation last month in Villiers-Le-Bel and neighboring projects north of Paris, in which 35 people were detained in connection with riots that broke out there in November after two teenage boys were killed in a motorbike crash with a police car.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of the 130 police officers injured in the violence, at least 10 were hit by buckshot or pellets.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2127453386757257919?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2127453386757257919/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2127453386757257919' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2127453386757257919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2127453386757257919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/french-police-sweep-housing-project.html' title='French Police Sweep Housing Project, Arresting 19'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-3551137034100121456</id><published>2008-03-17T06:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T06:06:02.103-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sarkozy Retooling After Setback at the Polls</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=By" sort="'publicationdate&amp;amp;submit="&gt;By Katrin Bennhold&lt;/a&gt; of the International &lt;em&gt;Herald Tribune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Published: March 16, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a id="articleLocation" title="Click to view map" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/16/europe/france.php#"&gt;PARIS&lt;/a&gt;: President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to press ahead with reforms but tone down his flashy image in a bid to restore his popularity with low-income voters after his center-right party suffered a setback in local elections Sunday, officials close to his office said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The opposition Socialist Party and its allies won 49.5 percent of the vote in the final round of elections Sunday, compared with the 47.5 obtained by the president's Union for a Popular Movement and parties affiliated with it, according to a voting-day telephone poll by the CSA institute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the 21 ministers who ran in municipal elections looked set to win and the president's camp also appeared on course to keep control of Marseille, France's second-biggest city, and one of the most closely watched races of the election. But the Socialists took several hotly contested urban fiefs from the right, including Toulouse and Strasbourg, and retained control of Paris and Lyon. The education minister, Xavier Darcos, and the junior minister for human rights, Rama Yade, were among those in the cabinet who lost their bids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ségolène Royal, Sarkozy's Socialist rival in the presidential elections last year, called the result a "protest vote" and urged the government to scrap a series of recent tax cuts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prime Minister François Fillon struck a defiant tone, vowing to pursue a program of economic change that he said was endorsed by voters in presidential and legislative elections last year. "We are going to continue with these policies because one needs tenacity to reform our country and because the respect of democracy demands that our commitments are fulfilled," Fillon said in a televised address. But privately, officials said that the blow suffered in this first electoral test since Sarkozy took office 10 months ago could mark the beginning of a new phase in his presidency - if not in substance, certainly in style.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to read the entire artice, go to  &lt;a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/16/europe/france.php"&gt;http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/16/europe/france.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-3551137034100121456?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/3551137034100121456/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=3551137034100121456' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3551137034100121456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3551137034100121456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/sarkozy-retooling-after-setback-at.html' title='Sarkozy Retooling After Setback at the Polls'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-6718994141954824623</id><published>2008-03-16T04:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T04:45:51.728-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Marie Antoinette Exhibit Traces the Tastes and Tragedy of a Misunderstood Queen</title><content type='html'>The Associated Press                                                                                    Published: March 13, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a id="articleLocation" title="Click to view map" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/13/arts/Art-Marie-Antoinette.php#"&gt;PARIS&lt;/a&gt;: Condemned to death at the guillotine, a sleepless Marie Antoinette scrawled a farewell message to her son and daughter in her prayer book. "My eyes have no more tears to weep for you, my poor children; adieu, adieu!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was Marie Antoinette really the haughty, scatterbrained spendthrift she is often remembered as? A fascinating new exhibit in Paris uses artifacts and portraits to trace the life of a frivolous girl who became a patroness of the decorative arts and a loving mother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Highlights of "Marie Antoinette," which opens Saturday at the Grand Palais, include the queen's childhood sketches, the refined furniture and porcelain she commissioned and revolutionary pamphlets portraying her as a sex-crazed monster. One of the final exhibits is the prayer book, where she wrote a note begging God's pity and saying goodbye to her children at 4:30 a.m. as she awaited execution, at age 37.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the full story, including pictures, go to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/13/arts/Art-Marie-Antoinette.php"&gt;http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/13/arts/Art-Marie-Antoinette.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-6718994141954824623?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/6718994141954824623/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=6718994141954824623' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6718994141954824623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6718994141954824623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/marie-antoinette-exhibit-traces-tastes.html' title='Marie Antoinette Exhibit Traces the Tastes and Tragedy of a Misunderstood Queen'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2316938507373240087</id><published>2008-03-16T04:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T04:11:48.887-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Municipal Elections 2008. Second Round of Local Elections.</title><content type='html'>French voters cast ballots Sunday in local elections that look set to inflict heavy losses to President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing party as the left vies for control of the top four cities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to &lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080316-municipal-elections-france-sarkozy-socialists-vote"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080316-municipal-elections-france-sarkozy-socialists-vote&lt;/a&gt;  for the complete story.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2316938507373240087?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2316938507373240087/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2316938507373240087' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2316938507373240087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2316938507373240087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/municipal-elections-2008-second-round.html' title='Municipal Elections 2008. Second Round of Local Elections.'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4767358314208713286</id><published>2008-03-15T09:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-15T09:50:21.803-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paris Book Fair Opens Amid Controversy</title><content type='html'>Reuters, The Associated Press                                                              Published: March 13, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a id="articleLocation" title="Click to view map" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/13/europe/paris.php#"&gt;PARIS&lt;/a&gt;: Opening the Paris Book Fair should have been a low-key cultural event during the state visit to France of President Shimon Peres of Israel. Instead, it was charged with Middle East tensions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several Arab countries are boycotting the prestigious annual fair, where Peres was speaking Thursday, because it honors Israeli writers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Nobel Peace laureate's appearance at the book fair comes near the end of his five-day state visit to France - a sign of President Nicolas Sarkozy's effort to rebuild frayed ties with Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am against the boycott of books," Peres said Wednesday. "Books are written to awaken reflection, to try to make sense of ideas."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarkozy's spokesman called for calm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It is not books that we should fear," David Martinon said at a news conference Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization urged its 50 member nations to boycott the fair, saying Israel should not be honored at a time of "siege" against the Palestinian people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Moroccan-based organization said last month that it had urged the boycott to protest against Israel's actions against Palestinians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The crimes against humanity" that Israel is perpetrating in the Palestinian territories "constitute, in themselves, a strong condemnation of Israel, making it unworthy of being welcomed as a guest of honor," the group said in a statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the complete article, including a photograph, go to &lt;a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/13/europe/paris.php"&gt;http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/13/europe/paris.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4767358314208713286?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4767358314208713286/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4767358314208713286' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4767358314208713286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4767358314208713286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/paris-book-fair-opens-amid-controversy.html' title='Paris Book Fair Opens Amid Controversy'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-3507474888997627513</id><published>2008-03-14T06:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-14T06:07:02.411-07:00</updated><title type='text'>EU approves Mediterranean Union Proposal</title><content type='html'>Friday 14 March 2008  - from France 24 - International News 24/7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EU leaders approved a controversial French proposal for a Mediterranean Union aimed at strengthening cooperation with countries from Morocco to Turkey, the EU's Slovenian presidency said Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The project received wide support," Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa told reporters after the first day of an EU summit in Brussels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It is now a question of working on this in different forums. It's now a question of doing what is needed so that this project can see the light of day," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French President Nicolas Sarkozy raised the plan during last year's election campaign, but complaints from Germany saw the grand project watered down.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Germany had feared that he would try to use it as a counter to Berlin's growing influence in central Europe as the EU expands, by limiting the club to southern European countries.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Tomorrow morning, the decision will be formally taken to transform the Barcelona Process into a Union for the Mediterranean. That was decided unanimously tonight," Sarkozy said at a separate press conference. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Launched in 1995 as a framework for political, economic and social ties, the Barcelona Process has regularly been thwarted in its aims by confrontations between Israel and Arab countries.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-3507474888997627513?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/3507474888997627513/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=3507474888997627513' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3507474888997627513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3507474888997627513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/eu-approves-mediterranean-union.html' title='EU approves Mediterranean Union Proposal'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2872895783268089012</id><published>2008-03-13T06:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-13T06:18:04.929-07:00</updated><title type='text'>French local elections</title><content type='html'>from France 24 - International News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French voters went to the polls on March 9 in the first round of local elections. The Socialist Party emerged victorious, while President Sarkozy's UMP Party lost support. The final round of voting takes place on March 16.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On March 9 the French voted in the first round of municipal elections, choosing local councillors and mayors in the country's 36,783 municipalities - from the tiniest village to big cities. Since 2001, nationals of the other 26 EU member states can also take part in this election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exit polls showed the opposition Socialists well-placed to score big gains over Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), in next Sunday's decisive second round of a vote cast as a referendum on his presidency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nationwide, left-wing parties took some 47.5 percent of the vote, well ahead of the UMP and its allies on 40 percent, according to a CSA survey. Turnout was high, estimated at close to 70 percent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The final round of voting takes place on March 16.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the rest of the article on the issues in Paris and around the country, go to...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20080214-elections-municipal-local-march-2008-paris-Delanoe-Panafieu"&gt;http://www.france24.com/en/20080214-elections-municipal-local-march-2008-paris-Delanoe-Panafieu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2872895783268089012?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2872895783268089012/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2872895783268089012' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2872895783268089012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2872895783268089012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/french-local-elections.html' title='French local elections'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2091227903252511677</id><published>2008-03-11T09:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-11T09:09:16.129-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cemetery full, mayor tells locals not to die</title><content type='html'>Wed Mar 5, 3:58 PM   BORDEAUX, France (Reuters)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It added: "Offenders will be severely punished."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mayor said he was forced to take drastic action after an administrative court in the nearby town of Pau ruled in January that the acquisition of adjoining private land to extend the cemetery would not be justified.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lalanne, who celebrated his 70th birthday on Wednesday and is standing for election to a seventh term in this month's local elections, said he was sorry that there had not been a positive outcome to the dilemma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It may be a laughing matter for some, but not for me," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Reporting by Claude Canellas, Writing by Andrew Dobbie; editing by Sami Aboudi)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2091227903252511677?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2091227903252511677/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2091227903252511677' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2091227903252511677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2091227903252511677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2008/03/cemetery-full-mayor-tells-locals-not-to.html' title='Cemetery full, mayor tells locals not to die'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-5250890558186748333</id><published>2007-10-26T19:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T19:18:54.662-07:00</updated><title type='text'>France, Seeking to Boost Green Credentials, Heads Toward Cleaner Existence</title><content type='html'>The Associated Press                                                                                 Published: October 23, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a id="articleLocation" title="Click to view map" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/24/europe/EU-GEN-Greening-of-France.php#"&gt;PARIS&lt;/a&gt;: Stamping camembert with a "carbon footprint" rating. Charging Parisians for the empty Bordeaux bottles they discard. Banning high speeds through the pasture-lined highways of the Loire Valley.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;France is trying to clean up its act, readying measures this week aimed at reversing its image as environmental laggard and making it a pioneer in the fight against global warming and other threats to the Earth's well-being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet environmental groups fear the measures, to be finalized at a conference Wednesday and Thursday, will be too watered down to make a difference in France's carbon emissions and have little impact on worldwide efforts to reduce the pollution that is warming the planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Nicolas Sarkozy isn't letting those fears slow his push to raise France's eco-profile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He put global warming high on his agenda after his election in May, creating Europe's most powerful environment ministry and berating the United States for its resistance to emissions cuts. At the United Nations, Sarkozy urged developed countries and major polluters to commit to a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the full article, go to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/24/europe/EU-GEN-Greening-of-France.php"&gt;http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/24/europe/EU-GEN-Greening-of-France.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-5250890558186748333?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/5250890558186748333/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=5250890558186748333' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5250890558186748333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5250890558186748333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/10/france-seeking-to-boost-green.html' title='France, Seeking to Boost Green Credentials, Heads Toward Cleaner Existence'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-166335055531074365</id><published>2007-05-14T20:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T20:51:12.373-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tough Sell: An American Yogurt in Paris</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By ANDREW MARTIN&lt;br /&gt;Published: May 12, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a title="Danone" href="http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&amp;symb=DA"&gt;Danone&lt;/a&gt; Group has enjoyed great success by selling French yogurt to Americans. Now the company is turning to an American to introduce organic yogurts in Europe, starting in France, a country that doesn’t normally look across the Atlantic for culinary advice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gary Hirshberg, the head of Stonyfield Farm, has built a yogurt empire by tirelessly promoting the virtues of &lt;a title="More articles about organic food." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/organic_food/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"&gt;organic food&lt;/a&gt;. Now that Stonyfield’s parent company, the Danone Group, has asked him to take his show on the road, he is about to see how well his message translates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It’s obviously very audacious to go to France and talk about improving their food offerings,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But at the insistence of Danone’s chairman and chief executive, Franck Riboud, Mr. Hirshberg introduced a line of products in September meant to tap into the growing demand for organic food in France, particularly in urban markets. The yogurt, called Les 2 Vaches des Fermiers du Bio (the two cows of organic farmers), comes with chatty cartoon cows on the packages and a &lt;a href="http://www.les2vaches.com/"&gt;Web site&lt;/a&gt; full of thoughts about planetary health.&lt;br /&gt;go to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/business/worldbusiness/12yogurt.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/business/worldbusiness/12yogurt.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the complete story&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-166335055531074365?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/166335055531074365/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=166335055531074365' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/166335055531074365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/166335055531074365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/05/tough-sell-american-yogurt-in-paris.html' title='Tough Sell: An American Yogurt in Paris'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8630976801840736946</id><published>2007-05-08T09:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T09:51:49.052-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sarkozy Sets a New Course for Relations With U.S.</title><content type='html'>&lt;table id="HB_Mail_Container" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr height="100%" width="100%" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td id="HB_Focus_Element" valign="top" width="100%" background="" height="250" unselectable="off"&gt;from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: May 8, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, May 7 — Two days before the first round of the presidential election last month, &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt; donned a red checked shirt, jeans and cowboy boots, mounted a small white horse named Universe and rode around the Camargue country in &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt;’s deep south. A gaggle of reporters and cameramen followed him in a cart pulled by a tractor. The black bulls in the nearby pasture stayed away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“A vague resemblance to the look of &lt;a title="More articles about George W. Bush." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/george_w_bush/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;George W. Bush&lt;/a&gt; on his Texan ranch,” is how the left-leaning newspaper Libération described Mr. Sarkozy, who was elected president on Sunday, beating the Socialist candidate &lt;a title="More articles about Ségolène Royal." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/segolene_royal/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Ségolène Royal&lt;/a&gt; in a runoff. The newspaper dismissed the event as a media stunt, saying, “Everything for the image, right up until the last minute.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Sarkozy is unabashedly pro-American, a man who openly proclaims his love of &lt;a title="More articles about Ernest Hemingway." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/ernest_hemingway/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Ernest Hemingway&lt;/a&gt;, Steve McQueen and Sylvester Stallone and his admiration for America’s strong work ethic and its belief in upward mobility.&lt;br /&gt;for the full story including pictures and a video, go to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/world/europe/08france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/world/europe/08france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr hb_tag="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" height="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div id="hotbar_promo"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8630976801840736946?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8630976801840736946/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8630976801840736946' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8630976801840736946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8630976801840736946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/05/sarkozy-sets-new-course-for-relations.html' title='Sarkozy Sets a New Course for Relations With U.S.'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8599907355237267764</id><published>2007-05-05T08:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T08:05:28.387-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Où Est Cecilia ? France Agog as Sarkozy’s Wife Goes Missing</title><content type='html'>&lt;table id="HB_Mail_Container" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr height="100%" width="100%" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td id="HB_Focus_Element" valign="top" width="100%" background="" height="250" unselectable="off"&gt;from france.com&lt;br /&gt;Submitted by France.com on May 2, 2007 - 5:12am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="taxonomy_term_2" title="General, uncategorized news" href="http://web.france.com/news" rel="tag"&gt;News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They seemed to style themselves on John and Jackie Kennedy, posing as a happy couple in the great outdoors, holding hands on boats. But for weeks Paris has been asking why Cecilia Sarkozy, the second wife of French presidential favourite Nicolas Sarkozy, has not been seen in public with her husband at his final public meetings before Sunday’s election.&lt;br /&gt;Full story:&lt;a href="http://www.betapolitique.fr/spip.php?article0772" target="_blank"&gt;Beta Politique&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr hb_tag="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" height="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div id="hotbar_promo"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8599907355237267764?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8599907355237267764/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8599907355237267764' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8599907355237267764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8599907355237267764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/05/o-est-cecilia-france-agog-as-sarkozys.html' title='Où Est Cecilia ? France Agog as Sarkozy’s Wife Goes Missing'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4339918617310926946</id><published>2007-05-05T08:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T08:03:01.416-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Luxury Paris Hotel Tops U.S. Survey of World Best</title><content type='html'>&lt;table id="HB_Mail_Container" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr height="100%" width="100%" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td id="HB_Focus_Element" valign="top" width="100%" background="" height="250" unselectable="off"&gt;from Reuters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Submitted by France.com on May 3, 2007 - 11:47pm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="taxonomy_term_2" title="General, uncategorized news" href="http://web.france.com/news" rel="tag"&gt;News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A luxury hotel just steps from the Champs Elysees with private terraces and 17th-century tapestries was on Tuesday named as the world's top large hotel by a U.S.-based survey of travelers and travel agents. Consumer-survey based guide company Zagat Survey LLC surveyed 21,783 frequent travelers and 1,626 professional travel agents to compile its 2007/2008 guide to the World's Top Hotels, Resorts and Spas covering venues in 103 countries.&lt;br /&gt;Full story:&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSN0124013620070501" target="_blank"&gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr hb_tag="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" height="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div id="hotbar_promo"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4339918617310926946?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4339918617310926946/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4339918617310926946' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4339918617310926946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4339918617310926946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/05/luxury-paris-hotel-tops-us-survey-of.html' title='Luxury Paris Hotel Tops U.S. Survey of World Best'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4107765983216057682</id><published>2007-04-30T20:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T20:34:10.945-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A ‘First Spouse’ in France? Not Any Time Soon</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: April 27, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, April 26 — No matter who wins the presidency of &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt; on May 6, life in the grand, presidential Élysée Palace is destined to change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no future for the role of dutiful partner filled for the past dozen years by Bernadette Chirac, who as first lady has run charities, held dinners and served as a local official in the farming area of Corrèze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both presidential candidates are members of unconventional couples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="More articles about Ségolène Royal." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/segolene_royal/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Ségolène Royal&lt;/a&gt;, the Socialist Party candidate, is not married to the father of her four children, François Hollande. But more than that, they are potential political rivals. As head of the Socialist Party, he was nearly the candidate himself, and says he will try to run in 2012 if Ms. Royal loses this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Certainly, without doubt,” he said Wednesday in an interview on a train from Paris to Nantes. “It’s also a competition between us.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He added that even if Ms. Royal won the election, he would not be joining her in Élysée Palace for her five-year term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I am not the one who is going to be elected,” he said. “If Ségolène Royal wins, my situation doesn’t change. It is Ségolène Royal who has a great responsibility and has to decide what is the best way of exercising it — including where she lives.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not Bill-and-Hillary in 1992, when &lt;a title="More articles about Bill Clinton." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/bill_clinton/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Bill Clinton&lt;/a&gt; told the American people they would be getting “two for the price of one,” pledging that Mrs. Clinton would be a full-time policy-making partner, and perhaps even a cabinet member, in his presidency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“In France, you don’t need two, you need one,” Mr. Hollande said. “My role is not to be a co-candidate with Ségolène Royal. The candidate must be free and responsible. My role is to help the candidate — but as party secretary, not my private capacity.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cécilia Sarkozy, 49, the wife of the front-runner and conservative candidate, &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;, has been largely absent from the campaign. Asked how she envisioned her life in 10 years, she replied, “In the United States, jogging in Central Park.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I don’t see myself as a first lady,” she said in an interview in a popular French TV guide. “That bores me. I am not politically correct.” go to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/world/europe/27france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/world/europe/27france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt; for the complete story.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4107765983216057682?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4107765983216057682/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4107765983216057682' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4107765983216057682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4107765983216057682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/first-spouse-in-france-not-any-time.html' title='A ‘First Spouse’ in France? Not Any Time Soon'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7021266084850716758</id><published>2007-04-27T14:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-27T14:09:03.563-07:00</updated><title type='text'>In French Race, 2 Rivals Feel Scorn of an Also-Ran</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By KATRIN BENNHOLD&lt;br /&gt;Published: April 26, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, April 25 — The defeated “third man” in the race for the French presidency seems to be calling the shots ever since he lost on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Wednesday the candidate, François Bayrou, who won 18 percent of the vote in the first round and has been aggressively courted by both the Socialist candidate, &lt;a title="More articles about Ségolène Royal." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/segolene_royal/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Ségolène Royal&lt;/a&gt;, and the conservative front-runner, &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;, held a one-and-a-half-hour news conference where he unleashed a torrent of criticism against both candidates and refused to endorse either of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a sign that Mr. Bayrou intends to retain some influence in the contest, he said he would accept an invitation from Ms. Royal for a public debate before her May 6 runoff against Mr. Sarkozy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Royal reacted by proposing that Mr. Bayrou join her Friday when she meets the regional press, but appeared to back away when he insisted the debate be televised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If a debate occurs, it would present an unusual challenge — and opportunity — for Ms. Royal, who must strike a balance between preserving credibility with her core supporters and making concessions to Mr. Bayrou, whom as recently as Sunday she had dismissed as a rightist with no program. She would need to use the debate to reach his voters, even as she argued with him about her platform.&lt;br /&gt;go to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/world/europe/26france.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/world/europe/26france.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&lt;/a&gt; for the full story including photos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7021266084850716758?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7021266084850716758/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7021266084850716758' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7021266084850716758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7021266084850716758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/in-french-race-2-rivals-feel-scorn-of.html' title='In French Race, 2 Rivals Feel Scorn of an Also-Ran'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-132488109461621373</id><published>2007-04-25T07:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-25T07:17:58.443-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Candidates in France Focus on Centrist Voters</title><content type='html'>&lt;table id="HB_Mail_Container" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr height="100%" width="100%" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td id="HB_Focus_Element" valign="top" width="100%" background="" height="250" unselectable="off"&gt;from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: April 24, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, April 23 — The French presidential race is on — for the vote of the center.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The campaign entered a new phase on Monday, as the winners of the first round, &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt; on the right and &lt;a title="More articles about Ségolène Royal." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/segolene_royal/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Ségolène Royal&lt;/a&gt; on the left, began a battle for the 6.8 million voters who chose the path down the middle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken together, the two winners scooped up 57 percent of the vote in the first round on Sunday. But François Bayrou, the legislator and farmer who heads the centrist Union for French Democracy, came in a strong third with more than 18 percent of the vote, and those votes are up for grabs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The voters of the center control the election,” said Stéphane Rozès, a director of the CSA polling institute. “The challenge is not knowing where they will go.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;go to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/world/europe/24france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/world/europe/24france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the full story including photos of the candidates&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr hb_tag="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" height="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div id="hotbar_promo"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-132488109461621373?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/132488109461621373/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=132488109461621373' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/132488109461621373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/132488109461621373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/candidates-in-france-focus-on-centrist.html' title='Candidates in France Focus on Centrist Voters'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-6250851863435260566</id><published>2007-04-23T05:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T05:48:03.232-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Voting Sets Up Left-Right Duel to Lead France</title><content type='html'>&lt;table id="HB_Mail_Container" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr height="100%" width="100%" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td id="HB_Focus_Element" valign="top" width="100%" background="" height="250" unselectable="off"&gt;from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: April 23, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, April 22 — &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;, the conservative, and &lt;a title="More articles about Ségolène Royal." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/segolene_royal/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Ségolène Royal&lt;/a&gt;, the Socialist, won the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, setting up a classic left-right contest next month between two candidates with competing visions of how to govern &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whoever is elected will also usher in a new generation of leadership: For the first time, France will have an elected president who did not come of age during World War II.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With more than 99 percent of the vote counted, Mr. Sarkozy was leading with about 30.7 percent of the vote, and Ms. Royal had about 25.2 percent. François Bayrou, the centrist who vowed to plot a new, conciliatory way of governing, came in a distant third with about 18.4 percent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A field of nine other candidates, including the far-right &lt;a title="More articles about Jean-Marie Le Pen." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/jeanmarie_le_pen/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Jean-Marie Le Pen&lt;/a&gt;, who came in second in the first round in 2002, captured the remaining vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The balloting on Sunday was marked by high anxiety, sunny weather and an exceptionally high turnout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the full story, go to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/world/europe/23france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/world/europe/23france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr hb_tag="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" height="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div id="hotbar_promo"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-6250851863435260566?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/6250851863435260566/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=6250851863435260566' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6250851863435260566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6250851863435260566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/voting-sets-up-left-right-duel-to-lead.html' title='Voting Sets Up Left-Right Duel to Lead France'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4748876540500233296</id><published>2007-04-23T05:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T05:42:13.488-07:00</updated><title type='text'>France Opts For Left-Right Battle</title><content type='html'>&lt;table id="HB_Mail_Container" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr height="100%" width="100%" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td id="HB_Focus_Element" valign="top" width="100%" background="" height="250" unselectable="off"&gt;from news.france.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onclick="show_hide_user_links(document.getElementById('userlinks-0'));" href="javascript://"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6582007.stm"&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; posted by &lt;a onclick="show_hide_user_links(document.getElementById('userlinks-0'));" href="javascript://"&gt;Editors&lt;/a&gt; 13 hours ago &lt;a href="http://news.france.com/user/Editors/"&gt;view profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Centre-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy will face Socialist Segolene Royal in the run-off of France's presidential election on 6 May, results indicate. With most votes counted in Sunday's first round, Mr Sarkozy had nearly 31%, with Ms Royal, bidding to be France's first woman president, on 25%. Centrist Francois Bayrou got 18%, and far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen almost 11%. Voting throughout the day reached record numbers, with turnout put at 85% - the highest for nearly 50 years. On a bright spring day, disillusionment with politicians and their promises did not translate into apathy, reports the BBC's Caroline Wyatt in &lt;a class="iAs" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 100%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px; COLOR: darkgreen; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgreen 0.07em solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://news.france.com/story/France-opts-leftright-battle/#" target="_blank" itxtdid="3492339"&gt;Paris&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr hb_tag="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;td style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" height="1" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div id="hotbar_promo"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4748876540500233296?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4748876540500233296/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4748876540500233296' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4748876540500233296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4748876540500233296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/france-opts-for-left-right-battle.html' title='France Opts For Left-Right Battle'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-3439504993728511918</id><published>2007-04-20T14:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T14:56:38.672-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Style and Vision Close Out French Campaign</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: April 20, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, April 19 — &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;, the conservative candidate and front-runner for president, evoked his immigrant roots and quoted &lt;a title="More articles about Martin Luther King Jr.." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/martin_luther_jr_king/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Martin Luther King Jr.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="More articles about Ségolène Royal." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/segolene_royal/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Ségolène Royal&lt;/a&gt;, the Socialist, pledged to usher in 21st-century-style Socialism and never to kneel before President Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;François Bayrou, the centrist, declared that he loved &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt; more than he loved power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And &lt;a title="More articles about Jean-Marie Le Pen." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/jeanmarie_le_pen/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Jean-Marie Le Pen&lt;/a&gt;, the head of the ultra-right National Front, branded all three of his main opponents worthless hypocrites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fanning out to the far corners of France, all but one of the dozen French presidential candidates held their final major campaign rallies on Thursday night, offering starkly different personal styles and visions for governing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every uttering, every nuance could be crucial. With the official end of the campaign on Friday and three days to go before the first round of voting, the French election is wrapped in tension and suspense, as the candidates — from the far left to the far right — struggle to win over the huge swath of voters who still declare themselves undecided or wavering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unpredictability of the race was captured in a CSA poll to be published on Friday that shows Ms. Royal closing in on Mr. Sarkozy. Twenty-six percent of 1,002 registered voters polled this week said they intended to vote for Ms. Royal in the first round, compared with 27 percent for Mr. Sarkozy. The two candidates are running even in a hypothetical runoff, according to the poll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the full story, go to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/world/europe/20france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/world/europe/20france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-3439504993728511918?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/3439504993728511918/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=3439504993728511918' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3439504993728511918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3439504993728511918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/style-and-vision-close-out-french.html' title='Style and Vision Close Out French Campaign'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8310768237129348733</id><published>2007-04-17T03:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-17T03:47:44.205-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Building a Paris Hall Around Its Audience</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Alan Riding" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/alan_riding/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ALAN RIDING&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: April 14, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, April 13 — Over the last two decades, as successive French governments have poured money into renovating the &lt;a title="More articles about Louvre" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/l/louvre/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Louvre&lt;/a&gt; and building new museums, an opera house and a national library in Paris, lovers of orchestral music here grew resentful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even with the vocal backing of the conductor and composer &lt;a title="More articles about Pierre Boulez." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/pierre_boulez/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Pierre Boulez&lt;/a&gt;, their insistent calls for construction of a state-of-the-art concert hall went unheeded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, just weeks before President &lt;a title="More articles about Jacques Chirac." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/jacques_chirac/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Jacques Chirac&lt;/a&gt; leaves office, their impatience has been rewarded with the unveiling of an eye-catching design for a $260 million concert hall by the French architect Jean Nouvel. The Philharmonie de Paris, as it will be called, is scheduled to open in the Parc de la Villette, in northeast Paris, in 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the complete story including photos, go to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/arts/design/14hall.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/arts/design/14hall.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8310768237129348733?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8310768237129348733/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8310768237129348733' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8310768237129348733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8310768237129348733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/building-paris-hall-around-its-audience.html' title='Building a Paris Hall Around Its Audience'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-3904168127044944585</id><published>2007-04-14T21:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T21:29:20.126-07:00</updated><title type='text'>France’s Unfocused Candidates Vie for Undecided Voters</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: April 11, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, April 10 — &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;, the conservative candidate for president, suggests that pedophilia is most likely a genetic flaw; &lt;a title="More articles about Ségolène Royal." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/segolene_royal/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Ségolène Royal&lt;/a&gt;, the Socialist, does not seem to know that &lt;a title="More articles about the Taliban." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/taliban/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Taliban&lt;/a&gt; extremists are no longer running the government of Afghanistan; and &lt;a title="More articles about Jean-Marie Le Pen." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/jeanmarie_le_pen/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Jean-Marie Le Pen&lt;/a&gt;, the ultrarightist, recommends masturbation instead of free condoms to meet young people’s sexual needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With 12 days to go before the first round of &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt;’s presidential election, the campaign has entered a phase of improvisation and even silliness that reflects the absence of any single defining issue and a frenzied competition to win over the country’s large bloc of undecided voters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every twist seems important. Monday was the “official” opening of the French campaign, in which all 12 candidates put up campaign posters across the country and began broadcasting short prepared free spots, of exactly the same length, on state-run television and radio stations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But a record 42 percent of French voters say they are undecided or can still change their minds, according to a recent survey by the CSA polling institute published in Le Parisien on Sunday. Among voters under the age of 30, the percentage is even higher, at 56 percent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the full story, go to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/world/europe/11france.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/world/europe/11france.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-3904168127044944585?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/3904168127044944585/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=3904168127044944585' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3904168127044944585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/3904168127044944585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/frances-unfocused-candidates-vie-for.html' title='France’s Unfocused Candidates Vie for Undecided Voters'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4173701998888614180</id><published>2007-04-12T07:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T07:58:51.678-07:00</updated><title type='text'>French Luxury Retailer Makes a Friendly Bid for Puma</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By G. THOMAS SIMS&lt;br /&gt;Published: April 11, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FRANKFURT, April 10 — The French luxury goods retailer PPR bid about $7 billion on Tuesday for &lt;a title="Puma" href="http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&amp;symb=PMMAF"&gt;Puma&lt;/a&gt;, the German sporting goods company, promising to keep its chief executive, Jochen Zeitz, at the helm of the company he turned around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question is whether Puma investors will continue to show the same confidence in Mr. Zeitz, who emphatically endorsed the deal, and sell their shares to PPR, or whether they will resist and put Europe on course for yet another cross-border takeover battle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPR, famous for its &lt;a title="Gucci" href="http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&amp;symb=GUCG"&gt;Gucci&lt;/a&gt; and Yves Saint Laurent brands, said it had acquired a 27.1 percent stake in Puma for 1.4 billion euros ($1.87 billion), and that it would offer 330 euros ($441) each for the remaining shares, valuing the company at $7.08 billion. But the share price rose 29.68 euros ($40), or 9.4 percent, on Tuesday to 343.93 euros ($460) on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and some bankers were already recommending that shareholders reject PPR’s offer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HVB, a unit of UniCredit, advised investors to hold out. Uwe Weinreich, an analyst at the Munich bank, said that he expected the share price to rise to 400 euros ($535).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Zeitz will face investors on Wednesday at Puma’s annual shareholders’ meeting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It will not be easy,” said Roland Könen of Bankhaus Lampe in Düsseldorf. “Questions will come about whether the offer is fair.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Zeitz took over Puma 14 years ago at the age of 30 and has transformed it from an unprofitable manufacturer of track-and-field clothing into a designer of trendy sportswear. As Mr. Zeitz reminded shareholders in a letter this year, the value of the company has risen 4,300 percent during his tenure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But European investors have rejected other deals recently, as this decade’s fast economic growth makes them more vocal and confident. For example, &lt;a title="More information about E.On A.G." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/eon_ag/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;E.On&lt;/a&gt;, the German energy giant, last week abandoned its yearlong attempt to acquire its Spanish counterpart, &lt;a title="Endesa" href="http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&amp;symb=ELE"&gt;Endesa&lt;/a&gt;, in part because shareholders held out for a higher price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the complete story, go to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/business/worldbusiness/11puma.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/business/worldbusiness/11puma.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4173701998888614180?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4173701998888614180/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4173701998888614180' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4173701998888614180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4173701998888614180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/french-luxury-retailer-makes-friendly.html' title='French Luxury Retailer Makes a Friendly Bid for Puma'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2175039464703492815</id><published>2007-04-04T13:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-04T13:54:08.493-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Opposition to Electronic Voting System Grows in France</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: April 4, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, April 3 — For France’s Socialists, among others, the coming presidential election could descend into a nightmare like last fall’s in Florida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the first presidential election in &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt; to use paperless computer voting. As many as 1.5 million of the 44.5 million registered voters are expected to cast their ballots electronically in more than 80 municipalities around the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But with election day less than three weeks away, opposition to the electronic voting machines has grown, in part because a small percentage of them are made by the same American company whose machines were involved in a bitterly disputed Congressional election in Florida last November.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We have doubts about the reliability of these machines,” Gilles Savary, a spokesman for &lt;a title="More articles about Ségolène Royal." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/segolene_royal/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Ségolène Royal&lt;/a&gt;, the Socialist Party candidate, said in an interview. “I don’t want to lecture America. But we don’t want France to fall into the same Kafkaesque balloting as happened in the United States.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week, the Socialist Party called for a moratorium on using the machines until their reliability could be determined. The party also wants a debate on the issue in Parliament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The fear shown by numerous voters faced with a system they don’t know runs the risk of keeping them away from the polls,” the Socialist Party said in a communiqué on Friday, adding that the risks of fraud and of “massive and undetectable errors” are very real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the full article, go to:  &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/world/europe/04france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/world/europe/04france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2175039464703492815?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2175039464703492815/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2175039464703492815' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2175039464703492815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2175039464703492815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/opposition-to-electronic-voting-system.html' title='Opposition to Electronic Voting System Grows in France'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-345709281622159308</id><published>2007-04-03T08:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-03T08:35:51.831-07:00</updated><title type='text'>French Train Hits New World New Speed Record</title><content type='html'>from Yahoo News&lt;br /&gt;by Julie Charpentrat&lt;br /&gt;Tues April 3 - 8:18 am et&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ON BOARD TGV V150, eastern France (AFP) - France's TGV train set a new world speed on rails Tuesday, hitting 574.8 kilometres (357.2 miles) per hour on a stretch of track in eastern France.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The experimental version of the Traine a Grande Vitesse (TGV), equipped with two supercharged locomotives and extra-large wheels, easily beat the 515.3 kph set by a TGV in 1990.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The TGV narrowly missed the overall world train speed record of 581kph (360.8 mph) reached in 2003 by a Japanese magnetic levitation, or Maglev, train.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manufacturer Alstom arranged the exploit in order to test its latest engineering designs in extreme conditions, and also to display the TGV's technological prowess to clients in a growing world market.&lt;br /&gt;go to &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070403/wl_afp/francetransportrail_070403121835"&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070403/wl_afp/francetransportrail_070403121835&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the complete story including a slide show&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-345709281622159308?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/345709281622159308/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=345709281622159308' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/345709281622159308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/345709281622159308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/04/french-train-hits-new-world-new-speed.html' title='French Train Hits New World New Speed Record'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-1466901548054353998</id><published>2007-03-28T14:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-28T14:44:27.575-07:00</updated><title type='text'>As the Sun Sets, a Parisian’s Masterpiece Comes to Life</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: December 23, 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FRANÇOIS JOUSSE paced along the south roof of Notre-Dame, chain-smoking French cigarillos as he waited for darkness to fall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly, the southern facade of the cathedral lit up, its pillars, gargoyles and flying buttresses adorned in white.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Ah, this gives me such great pleasure!” he said, warming his hands in one of the spotlight canisters. “I truly am blessed with the most splendid job.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, Mr. Jousse, a 64-year-old engineer, is the troubleshooter for the City of Light. As chief engineer for doctrine, expertise and technical control, he is responsible for lighting 300 of the monuments, official buildings, bridges and boulevards of the French capital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Working with a staff of 30 decorative lighting specialists at a City Hall annex, Mr. Jousse helps create new lighting projects, lectures experts, negotiates with powerful players like the &lt;a title="More articles about the Roman Catholic Church." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/roman_catholic_church/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Roman Catholic Church&lt;/a&gt; and resolves technical problems at sites throughout the city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One recent evening, Mr. Jousse was summoned urgently to an alleyway filled with garbage in a gritty neighborhood in the 19th Arrondissement. He had tried to mount a projector to shine one of his creations — images of six decorative windows he had photographed — onto a bare concrete wall there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One was half-opened, with a red drape; another showed the silhouette of a black cat from an iconic late 19th-century poster&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the images needed to be enlarged to match the real windows nearby. The deputy mayor of the neighborhood wanted the wall ready for Christmas. After a struggle to mount a different lens, he settled on a temporary compromise: the windows were enlarged, but two of them had to go because the existing lens could accommodate only four of that size.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the rest of the story including an audio slide show, go to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/world/europe/23jousse.html?ex=1175227200&amp;en=ce42d7468a63c6a9&amp;amp;ei=5070"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/world/europe/23jousse.html?ex=1175227200&amp;en=ce42d7468a63c6a9&amp;amp;ei=5070&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-1466901548054353998?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/1466901548054353998/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=1466901548054353998' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/1466901548054353998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/1466901548054353998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/as-sun-sets-parisians-masterpiece-comes.html' title='As the Sun Sets, a Parisian’s Masterpiece Comes to Life'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7262918553346754458</id><published>2007-03-23T08:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T08:17:12.572-07:00</updated><title type='text'>France Opens Secret UFO Files Covering 50 Years</title><content type='html'>from Yahoo news&lt;br /&gt;by Marlowe Hood Thu Mar 22, 11:53 AM ET&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS (AFP) - France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It is a world first," said Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical engineer who heads the office for the study of "non-identified aerospatial phenomena."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have always generated intense interest along with countless conspiracy theories about secretive government cover-ups of findings deemed too sensitive or alarming for public consumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Cases such as the lady who reported seeing an object that looked like a flying roll of toilet paper" are clearly not worth investigating, said Patenet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But many others involving multiple sightings -- in at least one case involving thousands of people across France -- and evidence such as burn marks and radar trackings showing flight patterns or accelerations that defy the laws of physics are taken very seriously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A phalanx of beefy security guards formed a barrier in front of the space agency (CNES) headquarters where the announcement was made, "to screen out uninvited UFOlogists," an official explained.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of the 1,600 cases registered since 1954, nearly 25 percent are classified as "type D", meaning that "despite good or very good data and credible witnesses, we are confronted with something we can't explain," Patenet said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On January 8, 1981 outside the town of Trans-en-Provence in southern France, for example, a man working in a field reported hearing a strange whistling sound and seeing a saucer-like object about 2.5 meters (eight feet) in diameter land in his field about 50 meters (yards) away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A dull-zinc grey, the saucer took off, he told police, almost immediately, leaving burn marks. Investigators took photos, and then collected and analyzed samples, and to this day no satisfactory explanation has been made.  for the rest of the article including a related video, go to &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070322/ts_afp/sciencespaceufo_070322143210"&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070322/ts_afp/sciencespaceufo_070322143210&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7262918553346754458?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7262918553346754458/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7262918553346754458' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7262918553346754458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7262918553346754458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/france-opens-secret-ufo-files-covering.html' title='France Opens Secret UFO Files Covering 50 Years'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-6174911630295089196</id><published>2007-03-22T05:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T05:32:20.399-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chirac, at Last, Backs Sarkozy in French Presidential Election</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: March 22, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, March 21 — Setting aside his personal feelings for the sake of his party, &lt;a title="More articles about Jacques Chirac." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/jacques_chirac/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Jacques Chirac&lt;/a&gt; on Wednesday endorsed his longtime younger rival, &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;, as the person best suited to succeed him as president of &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The long-awaited endorsement came without fanfare, passion or enthusiasm. The two men did not appear together at Élysée Palace or on a campaign podium.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead, Mr. Chirac announced his decision in a short televised statement from the palace after meeting with Mr. Sarkozy. Mr. Chirac portrayed it in terms of loyalty to the governing party, which he founded in 2002 — the Union for a Popular Movement, known by its French acronym, UMP — not as a personal embrace of the candidate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Five years ago, I called for the creation of the UMP to allow France to pursue a rigorous policy of modernization in the long term,” he said. “In all its diversity, this political movement chose to support the candidacy of Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election, because of his qualities. So it is very natural that I will bring him my vote and my support.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The president also announced that Mr. Sarkozy would step down as interior minister on Monday to devote himself exclusively to the campaign. In his meeting with Mr. Sarkozy on Wednesday, Mr. Chirac said, he took “the opportunity to salute his work, his commitment, his results at the Interior Ministry.” for the full story, go to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/world/europe/22france.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/world/europe/22france.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-6174911630295089196?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/6174911630295089196/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=6174911630295089196' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6174911630295089196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6174911630295089196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/chirac-at-last-backs-sarkozy-in-french.html' title='Chirac, at Last, Backs Sarkozy in French Presidential Election'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7810672383224853849</id><published>2007-03-20T06:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-20T06:09:51.926-07:00</updated><title type='text'>French Presidency Hopefuls Named</title><content type='html'>from news.france.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twelve candidates have qualified to run in the &lt;a class="iAs" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 100%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px; COLOR: darkgreen; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgreen 0.07em solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://news.france.com/story/French-presidency-hopefuls-named/#" target="_blank" itxtdid="2618669"&gt;French&lt;/a&gt; presidential election. Candidates needed the endorsement of at least 500 elected officials to take part. The first round takes place on 22 April, with a run-off two weeks later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The frontrunners are currently Nicolas Sarkozy of the ruling centre-right UMP, Socialist candidate Segolene Royal and centrist politician Francois Bayrou. Anti-globalisation activist Jose Bove is also in the race, as is far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than 20 politicians had been campaigning before Friday's deadline for registration. The other successful candidates are: Marie-George Buffet (head of Communist Party) Arlette Laguiller (Trotskyist, who first ran in 1974) Olivier Besancenot (head of Communist Revolutionary League, got 4.25% in 2002)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7810672383224853849?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7810672383224853849/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7810672383224853849' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7810672383224853849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7810672383224853849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/french-presidency-hopefuls-named.html' title='French Presidency Hopefuls Named'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8911872431837166000</id><published>2007-03-15T06:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-15T06:10:51.345-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Leader of Far Right in France Joins (and Jolts) Race for Presidency</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: March 15, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, March 14 — &lt;a title="More articles about Jean-Marie Le Pen." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/jeanmarie_le_pen/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Jean-Marie Le Pen&lt;/a&gt;, leader of the far-right National Front, registered Wednesday as a candidate for president, adding new uncertainty to the campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Le Pen, a candidate in four previous presidential contests, deposited the signatures of 535 elected officials supporting his candidacy with the Constitutional Council.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He stunned &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt; in 2002 when he edged out Prime Minister &lt;a title="More articles about Lionel Jospin." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/lionel_jospin/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Lionel Jospin&lt;/a&gt;, the Socialist, in the first round. Mr. Le Pen, 78, was trounced by the incumbent, &lt;a title="More articles about Jacques Chirac." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/jacques_chirac/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Jacques Chirac&lt;/a&gt;, in the runoff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Le Pen’s candidacy is likely to draw some support in the first round next month from the conservative candidate, Interior Minister &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;, who leads in the polls, and from François Bayrou, of the slightly more centrist party, the Union for French Democracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But neither the polls nor political analysts suggest that Mr. Le Pen will make it to the second round this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of Mr. Le Pen’s themes have been echoed by Mr. Sarkozy, who is likely to secure votes from a large portion of Mr. Le Pen’s supporters in the second round.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8911872431837166000?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8911872431837166000/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8911872431837166000' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8911872431837166000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8911872431837166000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/leader-of-far-right-in-france-joins-and.html' title='Leader of Far Right in France Joins (and Jolts) Race for Presidency'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-5166628896541139572</id><published>2007-03-13T05:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T05:34:21.272-07:00</updated><title type='text'>French Premier Throws Support for Presidency to Political Rival</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: March 13, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, Mar. 12 — Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Monday formally endorsed his political rival, the center-right candidate &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;, for president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Today I am with Nicolas Sarkozy to defend the ideals of our political family and so that the choice for the French people is as clear as possible,” Mr. de Villepin told Europe 1 radio a day after President &lt;a title="More articles about Jacques Chirac." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/jacques_chirac/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Jacques Chirac&lt;/a&gt; announced that he would not seek a third term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He added, “We have been together in government; we will be together in this battle.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The endorsement is important because Mr. de Villepin, who once had been considered a potential presidential contender, put party unity ahead of the personal and political differences he has had over the years with Mr. Sarkozy, who is the interior minister and the head of the governing party, the Union for a Popular Movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the past, for example, Mr. de Villepin has criticized Mr. Sarkozy’s proposal to institute a modest limited affirmative action program for &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt;, which Mr. de Villepin believes runs counter to the republican ideal that ignores race, religion and ethnicity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And although Mr. Sarkozy, like Mr. Chirac and Mr. de Villepin, opposed the war in Iraq, he has criticized the two men for the way they conducted diplomacy with the United States before the war, calling France’s attitude “arrogant.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. de Villepin had earlier said he would announce his choice for president only after Mr. Chirac did so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. de Villepin becomes the third of Mr. Chirac’s prime ministers to endorse Mr. Sarkozy, following the lead of two former prime ministers, &lt;a title="More articles about Jean-Pierre Raffarin." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/jeanpierre_raffarin/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Jean-Pierre Raffarin&lt;/a&gt; and Alain Juppé.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reacting to the endorsement from a campaign stop in the town of Maulte, Mr. Sarkozy said: “I have been very moved by his support and the way in which it was made. It was without ambiguity, very sincere.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is unclear whether the support of Mr. de Villepin, who suffers from low approval ratings, would help Mr. Sarkozy much. Mr. Chirac, who has long had a tense relationship with Mr. Sarkozy, has yet to endorse a candidate for the first round of the election on April 22.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-5166628896541139572?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/5166628896541139572/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=5166628896541139572' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5166628896541139572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/5166628896541139572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/french-premier-throws-support-for.html' title='French Premier Throws Support for Presidency to Political Rival'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-384656834092258618</id><published>2007-03-12T06:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T06:27:43.925-07:00</updated><title type='text'>After 40 Years in French Politics, Chirac to Retire</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: March 12, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, March 11 — After more than four decades as a politician and a dozen years as president, &lt;a title="More articles about Jacques Chirac." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/jacques_chirac/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Jacques Chirac&lt;/a&gt; announced his retirement from politics on Sunday, but he did not endorse &lt;a title="More articles about Nicolas Sarkozy" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkozy/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;, the presidential candidate and leader of the party Mr. Chirac founded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a brief and deeply&lt;a title="Chirac’s televised declaration" href="http://www.elysee.fr/elysee/elysee.fr/francais/direct_home_page_test.73969.html"&gt; personal address&lt;/a&gt; to the nation carried on television and radio, Mr. Chirac said he would not seek a third term in next month’s election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“At the end of the mandate you have conferred on me, the moment will have come for me to serve you in another way,” Mr. Chirac said. “I will not ask for your votes for a new mandate.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="text of his remarks" href="http://www.elysee.fr/elysee/elysee.fr/francais/interventions/interviews_articles_de_presse_et_interventions_televisees/2007/mars/declaration_televisee_de_m_jacques_chirac_president_de_la_republique.74076.html"&gt;Mr. Chirac’s message&lt;/a&gt; was one of farewell, not of politics. He looked better than he had for some time. He said of &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt;, “I love it passionately.” He told the French people, “Not for one instant have you ceased to inhabit my heart and my mind.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He listed what he considered to be the achievements of his tenure, saying, “I am proud of the work that we have accomplished together.” The only regret he expressed was a desire to “have swept away more conservatism and selfishness in order to respond more quickly to some of your difficulties.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He ended his speech, as he always does, with the words, “Long live the republic! Long live France!”   for full story go to &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/world/europe/12france.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/world/europe/12france.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-384656834092258618?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/384656834092258618/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=384656834092258618' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/384656834092258618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/384656834092258618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/after-40-years-in-french-politics.html' title='After 40 Years in French Politics, Chirac to Retire'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-8895292377269648987</id><published>2007-03-11T07:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-11T07:35:06.057-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A ‘Neither/Nor’ Candidate for President in France</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Elaine Sciolino" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elaine_sciolino/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ELAINE SCIOLINO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: March 8, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, March 7 — In the final weeks of the French presidential campaign, dominated by a nurturing Socialist and a crime-busting conservative, a third candidate has upended the race with a very American theme: put partisanship aside and end the false promises of the big parties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The candidate, François Bayrou, a 55-year-old politician, farmer and former classics teacher, is campaigning as the “neither/nor” option. Remarkably, the strategy seems to be working, in part because of rising disillusionment over the two main candidates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The percentage of undecided voters is higher than before any presidential election in 25 years. Between 17 and 20 percent of voters say they will choose Mr. Bayrou in the first electoral round on April 22, according to &lt;a title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;France&lt;/a&gt;’s major polling organizations. Suddenly, he is a contender.&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Bayrou is no maverick, but is portraying himself as a tried and true centrist and as a fresh face. the full story at &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/world/europe/08france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/world/europe/08france.html?_r=1&amp;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-8895292377269648987?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/8895292377269648987/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=8895292377269648987' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8895292377269648987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/8895292377269648987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/neithernor-candidate-for-president-in.html' title='A ‘Neither/Nor’ Candidate for President in France'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-522178844195148182</id><published>2007-03-10T12:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T12:45:44.270-08:00</updated><title type='text'>US author gets French citizenship</title><content type='html'>from Yahoo news&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS (AFP) - Jonathan Littell, the bilingual American author whose novel on the Holocaust "The Kindly Ones" was last year's literary hit in France, has been granted French citizenship, according to a notice posted in the official gazette.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 39 year-old writer benefited from a clause in France's nationality code which allows the foreign minister to offer citizenship to French-speaking foreigners who "contribute by their outstanding work to spreading French influence."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Written in French, Littell's book -- the fictional memoires of a German SS officer on the eastern front -- has sold some 500,000 copies and won the 2006 Goncourt prize, France's top book award.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before its success, Littell twice had his request for French citizenship turned down.&lt;br /&gt;Littell, the son of the US thriller writer Robert Littell, spent much of his childhood in France&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-522178844195148182?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/522178844195148182/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=522178844195148182' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/522178844195148182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/522178844195148182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/us-author-gets-french-citizenship.html' title='US author gets French citizenship'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4707237919415488886</id><published>2007-03-09T06:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-09T06:07:08.713-08:00</updated><title type='text'>French Thinker Baudrillard Dies</title><content type='html'>from France.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard has died aged 77 at his home in &lt;a class="iAs" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 100%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px; COLOR: darkgreen; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgreen 0.07em solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://news.france.com/story/French-thinker-Baudrillard-dies/#" target="_blank" itxtdid="3010418"&gt;Paris&lt;/a&gt; following a long illness. Baudrillard, a leading post-modernist thinker, is perhaps best known for his concept of hyper-reality. He argued that spectacle is crucial in creating our view of events - things do not happen if they are not seen. He gained notoriety for his 1991 book The Gulf War Did Not Take Place and again a decade later for describing the 9/11 attacks as a "dark fantasy". Baudrillard focused his work on how our consciousness interacts with reality and fantasy, creating from them a copy world he called hyper-reality. He said that mass media led to hyper-reality becoming a dominant force in today's world - an argument taken to a provocative extreme in his statement that the 1991 Gulf War primarily took place on a symbolic level. Since little was changed politically in Iraq after the conflict, all the sound and fury signified little, he argued.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4707237919415488886?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4707237919415488886/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4707237919415488886' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4707237919415488886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4707237919415488886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/french-thinker-baudrillard-dies.html' title='French Thinker Baudrillard Dies'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-634638933158486560</id><published>2007-03-07T05:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-07T05:59:40.850-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Louvre’s Art: Priceless. The Louvre’s Name: Expensive.</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, March 6 — What’s the price of a good name?&lt;br /&gt;How about a cool $520 million?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is the amount that Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, agreed Tuesday to pay to attach the &lt;a title="More articles about Louvre" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/l/louvre/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Louvre&lt;/a&gt;’s name to a museum that it hopes to open in 2012. And there is more: in exchange for art loans, special exhibitions and management advice, Abu Dhabi will pay France an additional $747 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Controversy over the Louvre Abu Dhabi has been swirling in France for the last three months, with critics charging that the French government is “selling” its museums. But only now have the full details of the nearly $1.3 billion package been disclosed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Abu Dhabi, the deal is an important step in its plan to build a $27 billion tourist and cultural development on Saadiyat Island, opposite the city. The project’s cultural components include a Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a maritime museum and a performing arts center as well as the Louvre Abu Dhabi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For France the agreement signals a new willingness to exploit its culture for political and economic ends. In this case, it also represents something of a payback: the United Arab Emirates has ordered 40 Airbus 380 aircraft and has bought about $10.4 billion worth of armaments from France during the last decade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The agreement was signed on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi by the French culture minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, and the president of Abu Dhabi’s tourism authority, Sheik Sultan bin Tahnoon al-Nahayan. Henri Loyrette, president of the Louvre, joined the many senior French museum officials in attendance. more including a computer image of the proposed museum @ &lt;a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/arts/design/07louv.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance"&gt;http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/arts/design/07louv.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fFrance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-634638933158486560?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/634638933158486560/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=634638933158486560' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/634638933158486560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/634638933158486560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/louvres-art-priceless-louvres-name.html' title='The Louvre’s Art: Priceless. The Louvre’s Name: Expensive.'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-7420858896086288452</id><published>2007-03-02T12:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-02T12:31:21.542-08:00</updated><title type='text'>2 Paintings by Picasso Are Stolen in Paris</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Alan Riding" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/alan_riding/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;ALAN RIDING&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: March 1, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, Feb. 28 — Two important paintings by &lt;a title="More articles about Pablo Picasso." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/pablo_picasso/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Picasso&lt;/a&gt; estimated by the police to be worth a total of about $66 million have been stolen from the Left Bank home of his granddaughter Diana Widmaier-Picasso, the authorities announced Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paris police officials said the two oils, “Maya With Doll” from 1938 and “Portrait of Jacqueline” from 1961, were taken from Ms. Widmaier-Picasso’s house on the Rue de Grenelle in the city’s chic Seventh Arrondissement sometime overnight between Monday and Tuesday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The police said that two drawings, one by Picasso, were also stolen, but this could not be confirmed by the Picasso family lawyer, Céline Astolfe.&lt;br /&gt;In a telephone interview Ms. Astolfe said that Ms. Widmaier-Picasso and her mother, Maya, the daughter of Picasso’s longtime mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, were asleep in the house when the theft occurred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“They heard a noise, went downstairs and saw nothing,” Ms. Astolfe said. “They went to bed and the following morning they saw that two paintings were missing.”&lt;br /&gt;The lawyer said the theft appeared to be the work of professionals because the home’s alarms were neutralized and there were no signs of a break-in. “They blocked the alarm, and they had either the code or keys,” she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the paintings formed part of the Picasso family’s private collection, they are nonetheless well known and, art experts said, would be difficult to sell on the open market. Ms. Astolfe said their value might exceed the police estimate.&lt;br /&gt;“Maya With Doll” is a colorful Cubist portrait of Picasso’s daughter as a child clutching a doll, while “Portrait of Jacqueline” is a black, gray and white Cubist oil of Jacqueline Roque, Picasso’s second wife, whom he married in 1961.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thefts of works by Picasso have become relatively common, not least because he was so prolific. London’s Art Loss Register lists 444 missing Picassos in its database, including paintings, lithographs, drawings and ceramics. There is also an active industry making and selling fake Picassos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The artist’s descendants have had artworks stolen before. One famous theft involved pieces worth about $17 million, taken from the Cannes home of Marina Picasso, another of his granddaughters, in 1989. Those were later recovered. Seven Picasso oils stolen from a gallery in Zurich in 1994 have yet to be found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neither Diana Widmaier-Picasso nor her mother could be reached on Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;Like other members of the family they are active in studying and overseeing the artist’s legacy. Maya Widmaier-Picasso is often called on to verify questionable works attributed to Picasso, while her daughter, an art historian, recently published an illustrated book of Picasso’s erotic works called “Art Can Only Be Erotic.”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-7420858896086288452?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/7420858896086288452/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=7420858896086288452' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7420858896086288452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/7420858896086288452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/2-paintings-by-picasso-are-stolen-in.html' title='2 Paintings by Picasso Are Stolen in Paris'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-6399604769689169314</id><published>2007-03-01T03:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T03:36:00.966-08:00</updated><title type='text'>French Dressing | Rent-À-Porter</title><content type='html'>from the NY Times - By &lt;a title="More Articles by Christine Muhlke" href="http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&amp;v1=CHRISTINE" inline="'nyt-per" fdq="19960101&amp;amp;td=sysdate&amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;ac=CHRISTINE"&gt;CHRISTINE MUHLKE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published: February 25, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that the euro has taken the joie out of buying clothes in Paris, why not rent? At the appointment-only boutique Quidam de Revel, vintage couture and ready-to-wear are available for a one- (or two-) night stand. Owned by an antiques dealer and an art historian, the Marais shop is a favorite with costume designers who hire pristine couture and prêt-à-porter pieces, from 1940s Balmain opera coats to ’60s Courrèges dresses as well as a growing collection from ’80s designers like Claude Montana. Call ahead so that they can set aside a rack for you, and then enjoy your finds for about 180 euros (about $235) and up, depending on the outfit, for a weekend (cheaper than buying a vintage Grès dress and a mink stole for your elopement). Accessorize with mint-condition shoes from Roger Vivier and Charles Jourdan and trunks filled with jewelry from the likes of Pierre Cardin and Lalanne. With the sous you save, you can buy a pair of Gaspard Yurkievich shoes at Hoses down the street. 24-26 rue de Poitou, 011-33-1-42-71-37-07; &lt;a href="http://www.quidam-de-revel.com/" target="_"&gt;www.quidam-de-revel.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-6399604769689169314?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/6399604769689169314/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=6399604769689169314' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6399604769689169314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/6399604769689169314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/03/french-dressing-rent-porter.html' title='French Dressing | Rent-À-Porter'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-2998719598846832865</id><published>2007-02-20T16:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T16:12:09.532-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Louvre Workers on Strike</title><content type='html'>By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE&lt;br /&gt;Published: February 15, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PARIS, Feb. 14 (Agence France-Presse) — Attendants at the &lt;a title="More articles about Louvre" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/l/louvre/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Louvre&lt;/a&gt; were on a partial strike Wednesday, demanding a bonus for the stress of marshaling tens of thousands of daily visitors past the Mona Lisa.&lt;br /&gt;Christelle Guyader of the Sud Solidarités union said that with 8.3 million visitors in 2006, “our work is reduced to simply managing the flow.”&lt;br /&gt;This week, strikers posted stickers bearing a picture of a gagged Mona Lisa and the words: “My caretakers have had enough. Give them their due — 150 euros!”&lt;br /&gt;Management at the Louvre said that only 5 percent of the museum’s 1,100 attendants were on strike.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-2998719598846832865?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/2998719598846832865/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=2998719598846832865' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2998719598846832865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/2998719598846832865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/02/louvre-workers-on-strike.html' title='Louvre Workers on Strike'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4312508997324321016</id><published>2007-02-16T14:20:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T15:02:08.151-08:00</updated><title type='text'>French Vocabulary Related to Mardi Gras</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Celebrate Mardi Gras in French&lt;/strong&gt; (from About.com)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mardi gras is an annual celebration called le mardi gras (literally, "fat Tuesday") or le carnaval in French.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Les dates de mardi gras ~ Mardi gras dates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mardi gras takes place 46 days before Easter (le Pâques) - that is, sometime between 3 February and 9 March. Mardi gras is the day before Lent (le carême), which begins on Ash Wednesday (le mercredi des Cendres). The most famous Mardi gras celebration is held in New Orleans (la Nouvelle-Orléans), but many cities in Europe and South America also put on spectacular events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Les couleurs de mardi gras ~ Mardi gras colors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mardi gras has three official colors:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;le violet purple (justice)&lt;br /&gt;l'or gold (power)&lt;br /&gt;le vert green (faith)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Les traditions de mardi gras ~ Mardi gras traditions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mardi gras is traditionally celebrated with a parade led by a captain, during which trinkets, or "throws," are tossed to the crowd. The parade is followed by a costume ball presided over by a king and queen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Le vocabulaire de mardi gras ~ Mardi gras vocabulary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;une babiole-trinket    un bal masqué-costume ball     un bijou-jewel     le capitaine-captain&lt;br /&gt;un char-float   un collier-necklace   un costume-costume    le courir-Mardi gras run&lt;br /&gt;une couronne- crown  un défilé-parade   un déguisement-disguise  un doublon-doubloon&lt;br /&gt;une effigie-effigy  un feu de joie-bonfire   un flambeau-torch   la foule-crowd&lt;br /&gt;un krewe-krewe (Mardi gras organizer)  &lt;br /&gt;un mardi gras   a person who really gets into celebrating Mardi gras&lt;br /&gt;le masque-mask (&lt;a href="http://french.about.com/cs/teachingresources/a/mardigrasmask.htm"&gt;make a Mardi gras mask&lt;/a&gt;)   une paillette-sequin   une perle-bead&lt;br /&gt;la plume-feather   la reine-queen  le roi-king&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Les expressions avec mardi gras ~ Expressions with Mardi gras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a couple of related French expressions with the phrase Mardi gras:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce n'est pas mardi gras aujourd'hui - Literally, "today isn't mardi gras"; this expression is used to make fun of someone who is wearing something ridiculous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;se croire à mardi gras - "to believe oneself (to be) at Mardi gras"; similar to the above, a way of mocking what someone is wearing: il se croit à mardi gras - he's dressed as if he's at Mardi gras, he's absurdly dressed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le slogan de mardi gras ~ Mardi gras slogan&lt;br /&gt;Mardi gras' slogan is "Let the Good Times Roll," which is (horribly) translated into French as Laissez les bons temps rouler&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4312508997324321016?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4312508997324321016/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4312508997324321016' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4312508997324321016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4312508997324321016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/02/french-vocabulary-related-to-mardi-gras.html' title='French Vocabulary Related to Mardi Gras'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012394153679510081.post-4098869713733290408</id><published>2007-02-13T11:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-13T11:46:19.278-08:00</updated><title type='text'>French Love and Friendship - L'Amour et l'amitié</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Express yourself in the language of love&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(from About.com)&lt;br /&gt;If French is the language of love, what better language is there to express your love? Here are some key French words and phrases related to love, friendship, and special occasions. Click on the link to hear the word or phrase pronounced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love you (too) &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/jetaime.wav"&gt;Je t'aime&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/aussi.wav"&gt;aussi&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://french.about.com/cs/beginning1/ht/iloveyou.htm"&gt;How to say I love you in French - step by step&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I adore you &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/jetadore.wav"&gt;Je t'adore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will you marry me? &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/veuxtumepouser.wav"&gt;Veux-tu m'épouser ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;to date &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/sortiravec.wav"&gt;sortir avec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to get engaged &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/sefiancera.wav"&gt;se fiancer à&lt;/a&gt;, (or avec)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to get married &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/semarier.wav"&gt;se marier&lt;/a&gt; avec&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;engagement les &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/fiancailles.wav"&gt;fiançailles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;marriage le &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/mariage.wav"&gt;mariage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;wedding les &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/noces.wav"&gt;noces&lt;/a&gt;, le mariage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;wedding anniversary l'&lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/anniversairedemariage.wav"&gt;anniversaire de mariage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;honeymoon la &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/lunedemiel.wav"&gt;lune de miel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;St. Valentine's Day (card) (une &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/cartede.wav"&gt;carte de&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/lasaintvalentin.wav"&gt;la Saint-Valentin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;present un &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/cadeau.wav"&gt;cadeau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;flowers des &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/fleurs.wav"&gt;fleurs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;candy des &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/bonbons.wav"&gt;bonbons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;clothes des &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl_clothing.htm"&gt;vêtements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;perfume le &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/parfum.wav"&gt;parfum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;jewelry des &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl_clothing_j.htm"&gt;bijoux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;engagement ring une &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/baguedefiancailles.wav"&gt;bague de fiançailles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;wedding ring une &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/alliance.wav"&gt;alliance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;husband un &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/mari.wav"&gt;mar i&lt;/a&gt;un &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/epoux.wav"&gt;époux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;wife une &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/femme.wav"&gt;femme&lt;/a&gt;une &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/epouse.wav"&gt;épouse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fiance un &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/fiance.wav"&gt;fiancé&lt;/a&gt; une fiancée*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lover un &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/amant.wav"&gt;amant&lt;/a&gt; une &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/amante.wav"&gt;amante&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;boyfriend un &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/copain.wav"&gt;copain&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;girlfriend une &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/copine.wav"&gt;copine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;friend un &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/ami.wav"&gt;ami&lt;/a&gt; une amie*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dear, sweetheart   &lt;a href="http://french.about.com/library/media/wavs/cheri.wav"&gt;chéri&lt;/a&gt; chérie*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Same pronunciation for masculine and feminine version.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9012394153679510081-4098869713733290408?l=monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/feeds/4098869713733290408/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9012394153679510081&amp;postID=4098869713733290408' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4098869713733290408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9012394153679510081/posts/default/4098869713733290408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://monsieurcaldwell.blogspot.com/2007/02/french-love-and-friendship-lamour-et.html' title='French Love and Friendship - L&apos;Amour et l&apos;amitié'/><author><name>Monsieur Caldwell</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14474096286443677675</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ABEaKYkR3pI/SNaiHvlUG3I/AAAAAAAAAAc/6q0SnvwarIA/S220/french+phonetiques.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
