MAINTENANCE – In a spicy book of memories, the former director of Fouquet’s recounts his passion for the world of the seventh art. Bernard de Pressach is a wonderful storyteller. From the world of fine jewelry to the management of Fouquet’s, passing through all the high places of the planet, there are things to tell. […]
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Presidential 2022: several high schools blocked in Paris before the second round
High school students mobilized on Tuesday April 19 in Paris. They blocked establishments to make their voices heard between two rounds of the presidential election and to alert on the far right and ecological or social issues, in the wake of the student movement launched last week. “There is a call for mobilization for this […]
Jean-Jacques Annaud: “The devil is in the detail, the truth too!”
MAINTENANCE – The French director painstakingly reconstructed the Notre-Dame fire. Without overdoing the special effects, he signs a grandiose and spectacular film, charged with emotion, which sounds like a tribute to those who saved the cathedral. THE FIGARO MAGAZINE. – How did the idea for this film come about? Jean-Jacques ANNAUD. – When Jérôme Seydoux […]
“L’Odyssée sensorielle” in Paris, the great spectacle of nature
“Forget, for a moment, your phone and its camera”, suggests a sign at the entrance to the exhibition. This is the sine qua non condition for enjoying the visit: accepting to leave the hustle and bustle of the city, to leave behind daily concerns to indulge in a meditative experience: the contemplation of nature on […]
S. Jaishankar met the President of France in the midst of Russia-Ukraine crisis, talks on these issues
India’s Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar has met French President Emmanuel Macron amid the ever-increasing threat of war between Ukraine and Russia. The Foreign Minister informed by tweeting that in this meeting he has discussed with the President the Russia-Ukraine crisis, Indo-Pacific mutual cooperation, strengthening diplomatic, economic and defense ties between India and France. Significantly, […]
Movement against vaccine pass started in France, ‘free convoy’ of vehicles reaching Paris
Protest Against Vaccine Pass: Protest against the Kovid Vaccination Pass program has started in France. In protest, dozens of trucks and vehicles left for Paris on Wednesday as a convoy from southern France. A large number of motorcyclists and car drivers are expected to reach Paris on Thursday and Friday as well. This method of […]
With the new Affelnet, more diversity in Parisian high schools
Presented in March 2021, the new Affelnet assignment platform had unleashed passions. It put an end to the possibility of requesting any establishment in one of the four major sectors of the capital. Since then, if they want to be almost sure of obtaining one of their wishes, future high school students have an interest […]
Netflix in theaters: the big fear
SURVEY – In Paris and Lyon, the Cinémathèque française and the Institut Lumière organized a retrospective of films from the American platform. A program perceived as a formidable communication operation and little appreciated by professionals of the seventh art. Monday, December 13, on the occasion of the screening of the comedy Don’t Look Up by […]
Forest Whitaker: “I seek the light of each individual”
MAINTENANCE – The famous actor is in Paris to participate in the Unesco Peace Forum. Its humanitarian foundation, created ten years ago, is launching a development project in Seine-Saint-Denis. Forest Whitaker, the unforgettable on-screen incarnation of Charlie Parker and Lee Daniels’ film ‘Butler’, is in Paris to participate in the Paris Peace Forum and the […]
Gustave Eiffel’s great-great-grandson angry: “The public deserved better, at least the truth”
The film Eiffel devoted to the French engineer and industrialist takes too many liberties according to one of his descendants. For him, the genius of his ancestor cannot be reduced to “a banal love affair ”. Angry, he asked the producers to add the mention “Fictionalized fiction” at the start of the feature film. He […]