The fascination with Fidel Castro of Saint-Germain-des-Prés 60s

In the 1960s, French intellectuals and artists, Gérard Philipe Jean-Paul Sartre, flocked to Havana, fascinated by the Cuban revolution. For them, Fidel Castro, died on the night of Friday to Saturday, will incarnate “hope”, at least for a time.Fidel Castro arrived when Stalinism was beginning to decline in ideals. He embodied hope, as something salutary, “said Jean Daniel, co-founder of L’Observateur, which then journalist with L’Express, met with Cuban in 1963. When on 1 January 1959, on the balcony of Santiago city Hall Cuba, Castro proclaimed the “beginning of the Revolution,” it is not yet a Marxist. But it is undeniably left and represents a great hope to some intellectuals after the Stalinist debacle.

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Terrorism: France on charm offensive to lure back tourists

With 84 million tourists each year, France is the most visited country in the world. But the numbers have dropped sharply as the country’s tourist industry faces the threat of terrorism. We take a look at what Paris is doing to seduce tourists back to all region of France, from increased security to multi-lingual guides. However, one group of tourists are still flocking to Paris in ever-growing numbers despite security concerns: Indian holidaymakers. […]

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Chanson Du Jour: The Song from Moulin Rouge

Chanson Du Jour 11/28/2016 Toot Thielemans’ “Moulin Rouge”

“The Song from Moulin Rouge” (also known as “Where Is Your Heart”) is a popular song that first appeared in the 1952 film Moulin Rouge.
The most popular version of the song was made by Percy Faith’s Orchestra, with a vocal by Felicia Sanders in 1953.

This wonderful version is from the 1998 album “Chez Toots,” featuring the unmistakable harmonica brilliance of the late Toots Thielemans.

“I was born in Brussels in 1922. My parents had a sidewalk café where every Sunday an accordionist came to play. I played myself at age four mostly French popular songs until…much later when I bought a harmonica, then a guitar and heard my first jazz record.” ~ Toots Thielemans

Marion Cotillard comments on her criticized death scene in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Marion Cotillard is an Oscar-winning actress, but her death scene in The Dark Knight Rises is often criticized. Cotillard is promoting her new movie Allied

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Bekhti upset by his experience in Lapland “Polar Day”

For the filming of the Franco-Swedish series “Polar Day”, broadcast from Monday on Canal +, the actress Leïla Bekhti immersed herself several months in Lapland, an “adventure in itself” which she returned upset.

The origin of the Swedish thriller “Polar Day”, co-produced by Canal + and SVT, Swedish public television, has attracted the actress. She finds the Scandinavian authors a “great writing ambition” at the service of the characters and the detective story. “I loved the Bron series and the film Festen” […]

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Louise Robard a new smile in the vocal jazz landscape

With a gypsy jazz guitarist father, Louise Robard was quickly affected by fire of jazz. She made her lines at the Conservatoire de Rennes. Pascal Salmon, one of his former professors is not surprised to see Jazz in the West: “She was already what we now hear all the shoots were already there as watering is not done […]

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