At least two homes were gutted and a firefighter sustained an injury battling the blaze, but so far there have been no reports of fatalities, officials said. The prefecture of Var, the region that includes Bormes-les-Mimosas, said in [ . . . ] Read More
For two decades now, among foreign movie buffs, the European city most closely identified with rising anxieties surrounding globalization, immigration and economic dislocation has been the hard-scrabble Wallonian industrial city of Seraing, near Liege. Seraing is the hometown of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the celebrated Belgian movie-making brothers and repeat winners of Palmes d’Or at Cannes, who have set their remarkable explorations of economic distress in the region they know best.
READ ENTIRE STORY at the Source: Surprised about Wallonia’s CETA stand? You don’t watch enough movies – Macleans.ca
KIM Kardashian’s thieves “demanded money not jewellery” fresh reports have claimed. Abdulrahman, the concierge working at l’Hôtel Pourtales the night of the raid, believes the men who held th…
Source: Kim Kardashian’s thieves ‘demanded money not jewellery’ during terrifying Paris robbery
France has more than its share of old crazy laws… here are the weirdest ones.
Source: Fifteen of the most bizarre laws in France – The Local
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