Tag: France

Annie Girardot was one of France’s most enduring, acclaimed and popular female star during the 1970s. The multiple-Cesar Award-winning actress died Monday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. She was 79. Girardot was a fantastic actress whose work ranged from popular comedy to melodrama. We recall some of her roles in Claude Lelouch‘s A Man Who Pleases Me, in which she played opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo. Or Luchino Visconti‘s ...

Recent events in Egypt have caught the world’s attention. The ‘Egyptian Revolution’ is on the newspapers front page, on TV, on Facebook, on Twitter, everyday. Meanwhile thousand of people were filling Tahrir Square, some of them were violently beaten. Then the question about arms raised and this is when France announced three days ago it suspended arms sales to Egypt… Read the article published on CNN: France suspended the sale of ...

France made handball history on last Sunday as France became World Champions in Men’s Handball World Championship, 2011! We are not really into handball but most of us watched the match and we have to say we are proud of the French handball team. Unlike the French football team, handball players are humble and we didn’t hear (as of today) of any sex scandal involving a minor prostitute… Here is the article published on BBC website: ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

On Monday, we read on The Telegraph that on Sunday night, hackers managed to break into the Facebook page of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to announce he would be quitting next year. With an approval rating which has dropped below 30 per cent at times, making Sarkozy one of the most unpopular French presidents of all time; some people may have thought their dream came true but it was only a hack. According to the article published on The Telegraph: In ...

Andrée Putman is a renown French interior designer and she is currently honoured by a retrospective exhibition at Paris City Hall. Max Dana went to the exhibition and shares her interest for Putman’s work and how the designer inspired her as a young artist. Many readers already commented on Max’s Blog. Don’t hesitate to join the discussion! “ What would be black without white and white without black? I am not making a ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

This is our second rendezvous: C’est la vie in France but this time (our first post was about Films Open French Wounds From Algeria) we have selected an article about food. As prood members of the Sama (formerly Epicurean) Fraternal Society, we enjoy good food and we were happy to read on the Huffington Post: Try Raclette For A Warming Winter Dinner by Regina Varolli. Some of you may wonder what is ‘raclette’, so here is an introduction by ...

This is a new rendezvous on the Sama Gazette : each Wednesday, we will give you some news from… France! Once a week we will select a news concerning France and that we think is worth to be mentioned. As some of you may recall, the idea of bringing you news from France started last year with Why France is best place to live in world; now this is an ‘official’ rendezvous on the Sama Gazette. So for this first C’est la vie in France, ...