C Day
C as in Chanel. The day is question is today, April 8th. Today is the day that Chanel increases prices on it’s classic bags by 25% worldwide, decreases prices in China by 20%, initiates a leveling of merchand...
Fashion & Finance Friday!
Still warm enough for open toe shoes and it's Friday - Double Whammy of Awesomeness!
Victoria Beckham opened her first store yesterday in London and it is an environment of beauty worthy of her luxe ...
Spotted in France: Fashion trends to expect for the fall/winter season
Blast writer reports trends seen at the world's Fashion Weeks and on the streets of Bordeaux
DSK incident causes young French voters to reflect on the importance of politicians’ private lives
RENNES, France -- Many French people say the political career of Dominique Strauss-Kahn is history, yet talk about the New York-based sex scandal of the former International Monetary Fund director and top candi...
The Embassy Cables: Violence in the French housing projects
PARIS -- A partial Wikileaks-leaked cable written in November 2005 by the American Embassy in Paris, most likely to the Secretary of State's office sheds light on violence in France and the government’s react...
The Embassy Cables: French support for Brazil high
PARIS -- A 2009 memo from the US Embassy in Paris to the Secretary of State's office released in the latest batch of Wikileaks documents, details French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s efforts to cultivate the r...
The Embassy Cables: The relationship between France and Africa
PARIS -- A 2008 cable sent from the American Embassy in Paris to the Secretary of State and other U.S. embassies around the world outlines the history of the diplomatic relationship between France and Africa, a...
Feminism: A Profile in France
LAVAL, France -- “When the rights of some women progress, the rights of others take on a new light and then all of humanity starts to move.”
These words hung in the center of an exhibit entitled Rendons nos ...
Few surprises over Chirac’s second round of corruption charges
LAVAL, France -- Former French President Jacques Chirac now faces two sets of corruption charges after a French judge signed an ordinance Monday summoning him to appear before a criminal court in Paris.
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French protests yield smelly results
MARSEILLE, France -- Imagine the result if Fenway Park went uncleaned for 15 Red Sox home games in a row. This might give you a faint idea of what Marseille, France’s second largest city and most important sea ...
Louvre returns relics to Egypt
The famed Louvre museum quickly resolved its quarrel with Egypt yesterday by agreeing to return the steles Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass accused them of purchasing on the black market, the New York Times reports.
Egypt cuts ties with Louvre over ‘stolen’ steles
Egypt has severed ties with Paris’ Louvre museum in an argument over artifacts antiquities chief Zahi Hawass claims were stolen by the world famous art museum.
French sub arrives as hunt for black boxes intensifies
The emergency beacons attached to the flight's data recorders will only transmit a signal for about 20 more days.
Frenchwoman who ‘killed her babies’ stands trial
Courjault, the infamous Frenchwoman who confessed to killing three of her own babies and hiding two of them in the freezer of her home in South Korea, now stands trial in Tours, France.
The other shoe falls for Atari
By buying up all outstanding shares of Atari stock, Infogrames has completely absorbed a company they already controlled as their American distribution arm.
