Maîtres mots

  • Il y a longtemps que notre pays est beau mais rude.

       --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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French Freedom of Speech

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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A interesting article about it: http://www.causeur.fr/france-inter-une-radio-de-gauche,6783

I like the analogy concerning the two revolutions, it also explains a lot of darker periods in french history, like the collaboration, when this minority of anti-democrats seized the power by forming the Vichy government. Those factions are always lurking in the shadows, working for the demise of the republic.

For your analyse of the France Inter events, I tend to disagree, the real drama is that Sarkozy can't even stand people making jokes about him, he is just a crybaby, always pretending to be the victim of mean leftists.

Porte and Guillon just did their jobs of public buffoons, who sadly had to work for a left-traitor boss : Pillipe Val, once head of the satiric newspaper "Le canard Enchaîné", and now Sarkozy's lapdog, ready to do anything to please his master.

As always, the Power is making "place nette" two years before the elections.

Looks like there is a slight majority of private channels (which is admittedly not that much), at least in term of market share.
http://www.observatoire-medias.info/article.php3?id_article=280

And @zapan, Philippe Val worked for the trashy newspaper Charlie Hebdo, not for Canard Enchaîné. You can see a Bio here:
http://www.republique-des-lettres.fr/10826-philippe-val.php

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  • In Paris, the purest virtue is the object of the filthiest slander.

      –Honoré Balzac (1799-1850), in Scènes de la vie privée

    À Paris, la vertu la plus pure est l'objet des plus sales calomnies.

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