September 2007 - Froggy News

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Deluxe Champagne arrives in Paris

A sexy twist – French museum turns up the heat

French finally catch on to Facebook

Delicious French cuisine falls short on variety

Old style cinemas in the heart of Paris

Garlic, onions and urine ridden pavements – the Parisians decide to sanitise

Here in France, we make love

Tramps in Paris are in abundance

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Froggy News - September 2007

Chabal has the French go wild

Sebastian Chabal

The towering beast that is Sebastian Chabal - whose name is a phonetic blend of Frenchness and caveman virility – has taken the French nation by a storm. He has even become an enigmatic sex symbol

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September 27th 2007 @ 10:11

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The sun-kissed streets of Paris do not necessarily make for the brightest of atmospheres. Light levels rise and yet the true ambience to Parisian culture seems to die in the lack of austerity. Such is the case for all those who are convinced that Paris is fully blossoming, flaunting its tortured beauty, in the autumn and winter months

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September 24th 2007 @ 11:30

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A weekend of architecture and heritage

Sarkozy talks to a group of 14 prize-winning architects

Paris was in full cultural motion this weekend as it celebrated the opening of the world’s largest architectural museum as well as les journées européennes du patrimoine, or the European heritage weekend. All of France’s public buildings including the Elysée Palace and the National Assembly were open to the public free of charge. For this one day of the year, the wonderful buildings of France’s Fifth Republic no longer reserve access for a precious elite. Instead, public buildings became just that – public

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September 19th 2007 @ 12:54

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The Scots gather together on the Champs Elysées

Kilted Scotsman in Paris

Yesterday, on one of the rare occasions that I lay feet on the Champs Elysée, I was confronted with a scene that, perhaps, this famous Parisian avenue will witness very few times. Streams of Scottish men in kilts lined the Champs Elysée in their dozens. Not a terrace in sight was void of a lively, but very respectable bunch of young Scottish lads lapping up the last of this year's summer heat

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September 12th 2007 @ 11:46

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The French Gendarme is a boot wearing villain

It is most certainly one of the most common preconceptions that we have of foreign countries. Foreign police are always more severe more villainous and undeniably more sadist in their methods of punishment. At least in Britain, where the reputation of the kind hearted ‘bobby’ is still maintained, embellished viewpoints of ferocious foreign police forces generate huge amounts of fear in many travelling tourists. The prospect of being stopped on the motorway by a foreign policeman, or woman for that matter, has become a terrifying prospect

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September 7th 2007 @ 17:59

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Rue St Denis – Parisian prostitutes in single file

Prostitute posing on the Rue St Denis

When asked to conjure up three words which describe Paris, it would not be a paradoxical feat to incorporate ‘romance’, ‘love’ and ‘prostitution’ in the same list. The Parisian prostitute is surely part of an age-long folkloric past which has created mythical beliefs that Paris is indeed the city where sex has no taboos or untoward connotations

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September 5th 2007 @ 19:36

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Le Retour des Parisiens

The French on holiday

The month of August in France is like no other. Special laws mean that the French are obliged to take their annual leave between fixed dates in August. Consequently, inner cities are transformed into urbanised zones of emptiness and eerie solitude at a time when most large cities notice sever increases in human traffic during a busy holiday season

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September 4th 2007 @ 16:48

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Musée du Quai Branly – homage to our primitive instincts

Musée du Quai Branly

A recent visit to the Musée du Quai Branly was meant to highlight the vast social and cultural differences between indigenous communities in Oceania, Asia, Africa and South America and those inherent to modern day liberal capitalist societies. Indeed, attitudes regarding economics, architecture, fashion and tradition are hugely dissimilar. For instance, facial masks made uniquely from spider webs are considered to represent up most levels of splendour and beauty amongst certain communities living on Oceanic islands. The sight of such garments hanging in the window display of a Parisian boutique would defiantly stir up an alarming controversy. Perfumed women, intact with their over-pampered poodle would be seen filing out of the Galaries Lafayettes quicker than a French civil servant after a pay rise

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September 3rd 2007 @ 13:21

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