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Telegraph – France considers plan to abolish French Revolution département legacy

France’s parliament is considering a plan that could stealthily abolish the country’s historic “départements”, created after the French Revolution to unite the nation and break with the country’s aristocratic past.

Hurrah!

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

This is so funny on so many levels I can’t even begin to parse them all: France will not give up nukes

WASHINGTON – France will not give up nuclear weapons because doing so would “jeopardise” its security, President Nicolas Sarkozy said this morning as global leaders gathered for a summit on nuclear security. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Christian Louboutin “Dancer In A Daydream”, curtsy, who else.

Categories: Entertainment

Google did. GOOGLE.

Categories: Business & Media

Another nice story:

Telegraph – Nicolas Sarkozy becomes a grandfather President Nicolas Sarkozy became a grandfather yesterday after the wife of his second son, Jean, gave birth to a baby boy.

And of course, the Mail goes for the frequently-nekkid-model-cum-first-lady-of-France angle:

Daily Mail – Glamorous Granny Bruni! Carla, 42, ‘thrilled and delighted’ by arrival of new baby Sarkozy

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph Blogs – Petroc Trelawny: The Orient Express reaches the buffers

The world’s most famous train finally stops running on Monday. While the new European railway timetable brings speedier journeys for Kent commuters, it also consigns the Orient Express to the history books. Not the Venice-bound tourist service that offers an expensive fantasy of [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Times – It’s a myth that students can’t be stretched<br/> Britain asks its 16-year-olds to take only two academic subjects. That puts them and the whole country at a disadvantage, by Andrew Haldenby

Across the developed world 16-year-olds at school today are working towards a minimum of four, five or six stretching academic qualifications [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times – Intellectual property Why isn’t Britain as brazen as France in celebrating its greatest thinkers?

No other country has quite this same cadre of men and women who can be introduced as “intellectuals” without making everyone else struggle to contain a smirk. In Britain, “intellectual” is almost a term of abuse, rarely used [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

<br/> “The Wardrobe” – Canal+

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National Post – Steven Edwards: UN abuse investigator ignores abusers, investigates Canada

McDougall, a U.S. national, is visiting Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal in a 10-day tour that ends Oct. 23. The UN says she will meet with senior federal and provincial government officials, representatives of activist groups, community members, academics, and others working [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Telegraph Blogs – Jean Sarkozy could be the next Alexander the Great

But this focus on age is very narrow-minded. Since when was there an age limit for people to be capable of doing important jobs? Take Alexander the Great. He took the throne of Macedon when he was 19 years [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times – Three pressure points to make Iran crumble<br/> The Tehran regime is taking a beating at home and abroad. President Obama should ditch his conciliatory tone, by Rosemary Righter

This emphasis on conciliation is, to put it mildly, odd given that it came at a press conference expressly called to read the riot [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Jonah Goldberg:

You could think the underlying crime wasn’t that big a deal (not my position by any stretch), but how can anyone forgive Polanski’s flight from justice? I don’t care what your ideology is, that just makes no sense if you believe in the rule of law at all.

Yes! Thank you!

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Categories: People and Current Events

Generally, leave The Corner alone till after morning coffee. But this is what prompted this morning’s tweet:

NRO – Where Is Obama’s ‘Center’?<br/> Look at his Rolodex and then figure out just where such a man would estimate it to be. By Mark Steyn

As I’ve written before, the appeal of this issue to him and [...]

Categories: Politics

Brett McS sent me this: Normandy 1944 – Then and Now

Amazing. And I love how, in earlier times, what “liberation” looks like. And the heavy emphasis on Canadians (wooo).

Categories: War and Peace