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       --Newspaper editor Olivier Séguret, 25 January 2012

    The USA are entirely the creation of the accursed race, the French.

       --Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), writing to Nancy Mitford, 22 May 1957

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Today the cheminots are:


  • "À nous de vous faire préférer le train!"
    "Voyager autrement"
    "Avec le SNCF, tout est possible"
      --Former ad slogans of the SNCF (French national trains), each in turn quickly dropped

Fun French words

  • ouistiti

    (literally: marmoset)
    Etymology: onomatopoeia from the sound a marmoset makes. Actual meaning: this is what you say in France when you want people to smile for the camera.

    Selon une étude réalisée par le fabricant d’appareils photo Nikon, le « ouistiti » utilisé en France au moment de se faire prendre en photo est le petit mot le plus efficace pour s’assurer un joli sourire.

Who's en colère today?

  • Private sector

    First strike in 43 years at an aeronautics company in Toulouse, Latécoère


    Public sector

    The SNCF (toujours eux), regional train employees in the Lyons area guaranteeing unpleasant travel from the 17th-21st December
    Also yet another strike by Sud-Rail, a particularly truculent SNCF union in the south of France, this time five days in January: 6,7, 21, 22 and 23. "We have no choice." Right.

    Marseilles trams on strike until February

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Shantytown on the way to the Paris airport

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This evening I had to go to the airport and, while stuck in a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam, managed to get a photo of one end of the bidonville on the A1, the main road to Charles de Gaulle airport, right after the exit for La Courneuve. It goes on for quite a way along the road, just on the other side of a chain-link fence. I assume they are illegal immigrants. It really is appalling that there are people living in these conditions, with no running water, electricity or heat, inches from one of the busiest roads in the country. Today, it is minus three degrees in Paris. I haven't seen anything about these people in the media.

27 January 2006 in France |

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Hi,
Nothing in the media about those people from romania for the most of them. But you can find some french people bulding there "house" . You can see more on my site.
http://www.erdeurien.com
Sorry it's in french, but pictures are pictures. I'm working on the english version

Posted by: R2Rien | 25 August 2006 at 17:28

There recently.I could not believe my eyes. How in 2013 can we allow people to live like this.

Posted by: Yvonne Adams | 19 June 2013 at 10:15

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