Staff • L'équipe
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La vraie victoire
“Vous êtes bien plus qu’un peuple qui veut changer, vous êtes déjà un mouvement qui se lève partout en Europe et peut-être dans le monde pour porter nos valeurs, nos aspirations et nos exigences de changement. Merci, merci, merci!”
“…Soyez heureux, soyez fiers, soyez généreux, soyez respectueux (...) soyez fiers d’être des citoyens français”. L’allocution a été courte. ...
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So close
“Fresh from defeat (...) Livingstone hailed the results of last week’s local elections in which Labour won more than 800 seats – as well as four additional seats on the London assembly – saying they showed that the party was now in a strong position.
“The lesson is that we are getting the economic strategy right,” he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. “For the last two years people have b...
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cult© Pret A Manger
Paris, capital of the fast food revolution!
If you don’t see the City of Light as a fast-food mecca, you’re behind the current media buzz. Predictably, our “fast food explosion” corresponds to the average worker’s sinking pouvoir d’achat. Other reasons cited for the trend of eating sur le pouce (“on the go”) revolve around ‘Anglo-Saxon’ impositions: shorter lunches, long commutes and the need to use lunchtime f...
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memory© Maison de Balzac
Paris fashion's good time girl
Before the 20th century’s muse or supermodel, Paris fashion had its own special heroine. She was la grisette, a young woman who spent her life in the service of style. Grisettes made the dresses, lingerie and hats of Paris; they also created the laces, flowers and trim which distinguished them. Despite low wages and sweatshop hours, la grisette always found the time to dance and flirt. In the 1830s, she became a public se...
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métier© Colourful Life/Ian Wright
Wright on target
The talents of Londoner Ian Wright fit his city perfectly; his curiosity has kept pace with it over decades. “For me, London’s all about the people and the place, even though it’s changing more rapidly than ever. Every time I leave and return, I can look with different eyes. Right now, I think there’s this great kind of creative explosion.”
Yet Wright knows his home is becoming homogenised. R...