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Paris: Ferrari 275 GTB Eye View

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck...

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Tunneling in Paris

Generations of Yale undergraduates have defied authority by seeking adventure exploring the subterranean world of steam tunnels connecting buildings in the main portion of the campus. Who knew that...

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Nude Models Protest in Paris

TopNews reports on the latest struggle for the rights of man in the City of Light. A huge number of models in Paris, who pose in the buff and perform as muses for artists, took to the streets in a nude...

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Splitscreen

I really don’t think New York City compares terribly well to Paris, but the maker of this cleverly crafted little video, shot entirely on the Nokia N8 mobile phone does a heck of a job at trying. Not...

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Places to Go, Things to Do

These local festivities are characterized by a prominent humor site as insane, but I think several of the are of distinct historical or anthropological interest and the ones where you throw fiery...

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Color Photographs of 1914 Paris

Porte de Paris, August 14, 1914. It is always a bit disconcerting to be reminded that the distant past existed in brilliant colors and not simply in the sepia tones of of the black and white photos we...

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Preserved in Amber

Boldini painting of grande horizontale subsequently sold at auction for £1.78 million The Daily Mail describes a Belle Époque Parisian apartment, locked up at the time of the WWII German advance on...

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“Paris is a Snooty, Unfriendly City’

Simon Kuper, last year, in the Financial Times, pondered the reasons behind Parisians’ notorious rudeness and concluded that being Parisian takes so much effort that everyone is perennially in a bad...

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Massacre in Paris

Three Islamic gunmen armed with fully-automatic AK-47s walked into the Paris offices of the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo around midday today and opened fire, killing at least twelve people. 10...

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Je Suis Charlie

According to Twitter analytics tool Topsy, there have been more than 70,000 tweets using the JeSuisCharlie: hashtag so far today. Social media are exploding with world-wide indignation over the...

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Charlie Hebdo Attack Victims

Among the slain: from left, clockwise, Stephane Charbonnier, known by his pen name Charb, editor of Charlie Hebdo; Georges Wolinski; Bernard “Tignous” Verlhac; Lead cartoonist Jean “Cabu” Cabut; and...

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Mush From the Wimp*

At 3:40, Obama says: “I don’t want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this…” As soopermexican puts it: “Obama of course, came out and said that he can’t speculate on who...

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“I’ll Take ‘What You Won’t See on the MSM for $1000’, Alex”

Via Clarice “Final Jeopardy” Feldman.

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“Wave-Tossed, But Not Sunk!”

Claire Berlinski reports that graffitists in Paris have responded to the attacks by painting on walls the city’s medieval Latin motto. This phrase is the motto of Paris. It means, roughly, “tossed by...

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Shield of the First French Spec Ops Officer to Enter the Bataclan Theater in...

US Marines on Facebook today were applauding the owner of this shield which bears the marks of most of a magazine of AK-47 rounds and a fair amount of suicide vest shrapnel.(picture source: iTele...

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“The Flowers and Candles are Here to Protect Us”

Some douchebag plays John Lennon’s “Imagine” on a piano with a Peace Sign outside Paris’s Bataclan Theater. Kathy Shaidle, at Taki Mag, tells us just how grossed out she was by some of the popular...

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Travelling in Style

Yves Géniès drives a Bugatti Type 41 Royale across Paris. La Traversée de Paris avec la Bugatti Royale , escorté par l'ami Raymond Loiseaux et son équipe Honda Goldwing , un souvenir inoubliable .. Et...

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The Seine Is Rising

The Seine is rising, and Paris is on flood alert.

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French Catholic Clocks Muslim For Interfering With Rosary Prayers

Mad World News: A group of around 20 French Catholics was quietly praying the rosary in Paris just hours after the funeral of Father Jacques Hamel, the priest who was recently “beheaded” by Muslims in...

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Au Bon Coin

Robert Doisneau, Au Bon Coin, Paris, 1945

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