French flags flutter forcefully and fruitfully every Fall.

€29 / year.

"boredom can be oppressive or dominating. It tends to endurance and submission—the brutally long take, the exhausting slow pan, the excruciatingly slow zoom. When a film is boring it bores with its whole soul."

Sarkozy abandons local govt restructuring and grand planning schemes, goes for transport infrastructure.

geodata available from the french geographic institute.

ASCII-formatted list of French Communes, with lat/lon/elev

French statistics. amazingly complete, and only in French. As you would expect.

"sont un groupe d'explorateur-urbains basés à Paris dont l'activité consiste à restaurer clandestinement les parties non-visibles du patrimoine." See Also: Mexican Perforation

photo/video/installation project about politics of the sugar market. critial tastiness studies. thx a.

lb: good rundown of the French election, esp. new gov's relations to US . Save it on your laptop for next 11hr train ride

The source for the word. 18th c. French Controller-General. His progressive taxation policies made the rich complain that they had been 'reduced to mere shadows'.

Le retour du Tigre, il ressort ses griffes. Curious French paper monthyl and web daily. [fitnr included in their links page with the line:

Outdoor art shows in Paris by delightful French people. For our purposes, they're doing a roadtrip/serial art installation of emotion-named towns in the US (Hope, AK, Love, MD).

The Michelin Man's name is Bibendum, Latin for 'We Drink!' "A 1898 poster showed him offering the toast 'Nunc est bibendum' "Now is the time to drink" in Latin)"

x-arn - french net art collective

1st Eur. settlement N. of Florida (1604). Far northern Maine, lasted 1 year. French then moved to Nova Scotia.

"Man is neither Rousseau’s noble savage nor the Church’s or La Rochefoucauld’s depraved sinner.
He is violent when oppressed, gentle when free."

workshop of potential literature - don't ever think you've run out of good books to read, dude. (for instance Jacques Roubaud, mathematician-poet)

fake is the new YOUR MOM // Oedipus Hex (there are better puns lurking out there)

convert any date to the French Revolutionary Calendar (this is built into PHP, which is great)

sophie calle

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