On The Subject Of What Do French Teenagers Do
Donald asks…
what are parisian/french teenagers like?
im (hopefully) getting an french exchange student in a few months and then going back to live with them for 3 months. id like to know what they wear, listen to, talk about, hang out etc? like do french teenagers tend to drink/smoke a lot or not to drink/smoke at all etc?
First, get it right, its not american, its CANADIAN, basically like saying your from italy when youre from france. secondly, I travel a lot, and everywhere i’ve been teenagers have been different from canadian teenagers, britain, greece, italy, turkey, egypt, germany, everywhere, so i know thats not true.
First, get it right, its not american, its CANADIAN, basically like saying your from italy when youre from france. secondly, I travel a lot, and everywhere i’ve been teenagers have been different from canadian teenagers, britain, greece, italy, turkey, egypt, germany, everywhere, so i know thats not true.
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Categories: Questions Tags: Apex Records artists, Entertainment/Culture, Like, Stewart McIntosh, Teenagers, The Teenagers
On The Subject Of Driving In France Motorways
Linda asks…
can i drive on motorways with a fully automatic uk drivers licence ?
want to know if i can use motorways in the uk with an automatic licence for cars, also can i rent cars abroad in spain and france ect.. on an auto licence ??? please help ??
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Categories: Motoring Tags: Entertainment/Culture, France, Human Interest, Motorway, Motorways in the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Stewart McIntosh, tourism, travel
‘Paris mix’: the 1st Music France Cluster Company
Paris Mix is a grouping of 40 companies in the music sector – labels, producers, Turners, organizers of shows, theatres, media – related to Paris and the Ile-de-France region crossroads music world.
In tune with the expectations of a racially and urban society, musiques du monde are creative intercultural and intergenerational social connection. Carrying of identities, values and meaning, they make up a vector of openness and citizenship education and represent real issues economic, social and cultural Paris and its region.
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Categories: Business Tags: Cluster, companies, culture, Entertainment/Culture, France, Mass media, Music, Paris, World music
Pau Carnaval
The versionof Carnaval in Pau (64 Pyrenees Atlantiques, Aquitaine) has a very Basque flavour..Known as Carnaval Biarnes it takes place 26 February – 8 March 2011.
Categories: Events Tags: Carnivals, Christianity, Entertainment/Culture, Human behavior, Lent, Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras in the United States, Mask, Procession, Religion, Shrove Tuesday, Tuesday
Come Back Johnny Hallyday
Rock may be on its last legs in the UK, but France is en fête at the release of a new single by the country’s favourite rock’n'roller, a year after a near-death experience.
Johnny Hallyday, whose early career won him the sobriquet the French Elvis, has never found success on the British side of La Manche, but for 50 years he has been the most influential figure in French pop and rock.
Categories: Famous France Tags: Entertainment/Culture, France, Jean-Philippe, Johnny Hallyday
Pete Doherty to star in French film
Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features
Pete Doherty is to star as 19th-century French poet Alfred de Musset.
It could have been the details of his £250-a-day drug addiction, or the pictures of his crack pipe in the tabloids. It could have been the many appearances he made in court, or the ones he failed to make on stage. Whatever the cause, one thing’s for sure: between Britain and Pete Doherty, it’s been over for some time.
But, as he may say now: tant pis. For Doherty has found a new love – and this time the feeling’s mutual. Across the Channel, the shambolic singer is greeted not with snorts of derision but with murmurs of awe. In France, Doherty has found his spiritual home.
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The Monde.fr bloggers took a sacred blow on the pif
I’m nothing to most of you, the Monde.fr blogging platform was closed for two long days-54 hours exactly – to inadvertent human error.
The worst is that the consequences are disastrous for most authors because some components of blogs, photos, and sounds) erased during the incident and therefore no longer appear.
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Jean-Louis Borloo, ‘Magnificent Cocu’
I always tested much sympathy for the good broth Jean-Louis Borloo compelling spectacled but after his “missed Matignon”, I am even more for his own person. The loser manipulated and rolled in flour always arouses sympathy, a fortiori when the author of the package is a master in this field.
In this presidential charade decoy that the right of the UMP cronies and finely attended François Fillon, Jean-Louis Borloo is somewhat the magnificent Cocu holding both the Crommelynck hero and a character that could create Choderlos de Laclos in its dangerous liaisons, exhibit comes to play at the Elysee Montmartre guignolesque stuffing and perverse comedy.
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Toulouse d’été
Toulouse Summer Festival
15 July / 30 August 2010
Toulouse d’été is celebrating its seventh sumeer time fesitval and aims to be even more innovative. Created at the initiative of the municipality, the season of music continues to be a development of the regional scene in and around Toulouse, both in the field of classical and contemporary music.
Its goal, to be a real snapshot of musical vitality and reveal to the public the quality of new and exceptional artists, with emphasis on young talent, whether classical artists and musicians from various scenes – song, jazz, new folk music, rock, hip-hop, etc.
Cannes Film Festival
version française
For over 60 years the Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival) has made a celebration of the cinema.
During this time, L’Association Française du Festival International du Film (the French Association of the International Film Festival) has been able to evolve whilst retaining the essentials: the passion for motion pictures, discovery of new talents, and enthusiasm of festival-goers and professionals from around the world, all contributing to the birth and distribution of films.