Of course, not all you need is love music, not everybody loves somebody else’s songs, and even in “the most romantic city in the world”, there are other things to sing about, but some “Love-Songs” from Paris a day may help keep trouble away.
Renaud Favier – February, 14th (Paris Time), 2013 – Café du matin à Paris
PS : Valentine (oldschool) sample from Paris
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Posted in Arts, Best wishes, France, Humour
Tagged amour, Aristocats, Claude François, Cookie Dingler, France, French, Happy Valentine, humour, Jacques Dutronc, jazz, Jeanne Mas, love, Macumba, music, Niagara, oldschool, Paris, Rita Mitsouko, romantic, sense of humor, Valentine Day, vintage, Walt Disney
Yes, Paris still is a city of free and happy love, even if even love may be taken hostage by French politics. Read more about it here : and day by day on the blog “Café du matin à Paris” : http://www.facebook.com/cafe.renaud
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Renaud Favier – January 26th, 2013 – Café du matin à Paris
Posted in Change, France, Humour
Tagged amour, black coffee, Blog, café, Café de Paris, change, coffee, France, French, French Coffee, Gay pride, love, mariage Gay, Paris, romantic, Twitter
Let’s play (or ski, or surf, or do whatever U like) for a while, it’s Holiday, family, coffee, fun time and all that, now (and real life will be back soon enough) : http://renaudfavier.com/2012/12/26/si-vous-naimez-pas-ca-les-reveillons-la-neige-et-toussa-touca-nen-degoutez-pas-les-autres/
Renaud Favier – December, 26th, 2012 – Café du matin à Paris
But let’s Xmas anyway : http://joyeuxnoel2012.wordpress.com/
And Go 2013 (give it a try at least) : http://bonneannee2013.wordpress.com/
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Tagged Best Wishes, game, Happy New Year, Holidays, love, Merry Christmas, Paris, romantic, Sex, sex toys, sexy, Xmas
You know you should not ever trust what you read on the front page of The Economist about France, or continental Europe, for that matter …
Never.
Really never.
Never, ever.
Definitely.
That being said, every rule has its exception …
But better read a (free) “Café du matin à Paris” in French every day to know what is really happening, or not, in Frogland these days ( http://renaudfavier.com/ ) and/or click on the hereafter pictures for a shortview (backwards, which seems more appropriate for France) on recent events (or non-events).
November 16th : the French Senate aborted a project of tax on Palm Oil. Nobody would have cared, had Nutella not seized he opportunity to launch a 50/50 lobbbying-advertising campaign.
November 15th : something smells in Corsica (a murder, as usual), but as nobody knows nothing, and nobody would talk if anybody knew, and nobody saw or heard nothing of course, nobody really cares, all the less, since France has a lot of stinking cheeses everywhere.
November 14th : first big press conference by the French President, François Hollande, at Palais de l’Elysée. Many French citizens listen to the President, more twit, write and talk about what he said (or not).
November 13th : the French, especially the Parisians, try to be nice with everybody, as it is THE day of kindness worldwide and they know a day lasts only 24 hours. So do the Germans, however hard it may be, in certain cases.
November 12th : THE week of the Beaujolais Nouveau begins, the French worldwide start talking and thinking about it rather than about anything else, though noboby can drink it before Thursday, as a matter of French principle and French tradition.
November 11th : The French talk about dead soldiers including Charles de Gaulle (it used to be a great general of theirs, before it became the major Air France Airport) and all wars they lost without losing their sense of humour and of “Grandeur”.
November 10th : The French discuss about litterature and season’s French “prix littéraires” like Goncourt and Renaudot …
November 9th : the French are happy, that Xi Jinping, the new World Leader (based in Beijing), drinks red wine and hope he will not drink Chinese beverages only in the years to come and they will be able to export some of their wines to China.
November 8th : the French hope, that somebody will be able to help for Europe’s, and specially France’s socialist economic recovey.
November 7th : the French are happy that President Obama was re-elected in America, as they alread know him, the Washington airport and the twitter account for their questions.
November 6th : the French consider French communities management to foster competitiveness.
November 5th : Super happiness among Paris politicians not on trip abroad (like President Hollande) and journalists not on season’s holiday, the über-expected Gallois report on Gallic (garlic ?) competitiveness is officially delivered to Prime Minister Ayrault and widely spread on the internet.
November 4th : some French are reading about real competitiveness.
November 3nd : France is getting damn serious about competitiveness.
Real serious : playing hard, working hard !
November 2nd : a prayer for France, its taxpayers, and its creditors, all equally dead.
November 1st : France is THE romantic country and will remain so forever, and death can nothing against l’amour, toujours …
October 31st : the French celebrate Halloween, like everybody else in the real world, but don’t tell them, the believe they have invented it (too).
October 30th : the French socialist politicians are having fun inside (France) whereas there Perfects Storms are outside (France), everywhere in the economy and around New-York and Haïti as far as heavy rains are concerned.
October 29th : the French managed to sink their own boat (again) in their own harbour (again) and the Napoleon Bonaparte (not again !) is at bay 3 meters away from the pier in Marseille Vieux Port. Please don’t pay attention.
October 28th : the French go for winter time. Every is happy to be allowed to sleep one hour more, and the trade unions warn the (ir)relevant minister that this should happen every night, otherwise they’ll go on strike.
October 27th : the French discuss among themselves about drugs and how it could improve their international competitiveness, after Lance Armstrong was denied his “Tour de France” victories.
October 26th : the French brainstorm with partners on business intelligence and practice new French economic diplomacy to try and improve their external trade huge deficit (second only to Britain, as often enough).
October 25th : France is waiting for Louis Gallois’ report en French competitiveness and its whereabouts. Severe haircuts are expected from the French minister of finance, Pierre Moscovici, though some people have their doubts.
Some French are not just waiting, but working, and writing too.
Renaud Favier – November, 16th, 2012 – Café du matin à Paris
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The French are in a bad mood. But how come ? They live in (one of) the best countries in the world, they can come and go to and from Brussels, Geneva or Montecarlo whenever they want, and they have (one of) the best foods of the world.
October, 8th : the French argue about pigeons, or #geonpi, fort that matter. Nobody really undestands what this French mess is all about, but it must be a French tradition to go for pigeons as they don’t celebrate thanksgivings. Maybe they already can’t afford “poule au pot”, or “foie gras”, or even plain “pâtes aux truffes” anymore.
October 7th : the French discuss geese Fashion. How could they possibly complain about that ? Appart from the fact, that Paris no longer is the world’s capital city for fashion, and that the French have bought German cars and fashion for a while, and consider Chinese ones, now.
October 6th : the French discuss French cars at Porte de Versailles. How can they possibly waste time discussing such lame ducks ? It must be a French tradition of some kind at that time of the year, another French paradox.
October 5th : the French discuss socialism and luxury bags. Whatever works, if they like it …
October 4th : the French discuss about time. Not Time magazine, but past, future, present, that sort of things. Everybody got lost in (time) translation.
October 3rd : the French discuss good old times, when Citroën convertible cars were real big convertible cars, French world leaders were real big world leaders, and #MondialAuto was real big Salon de l’Auto de Paris.
October 2nd : some French discuss books and litterature, that sort of thing they consider as important as food, love and politics, whereas moste of the rest of the real world thinks it’s basically a business like any other kind of art that can make money.
October 1st : the French discuss Handball. Some Blues seem to have got caught red handed, somehow. French sport business as usual, nobody cares, but some French.
September 30th : the French forgot to complain (it was Sunday, but usually, they don’t stop complaining just because it’s Sunday). Anyway, that was quite enjoyable for the rest of the word, as when the French stay in their own comfort zone (without talking), it’s magic Sunday for all others.
September 29th : the French discuss the French budget for 2013. No comment, everybody knows they are very good at discussing but very bad at budget, and the result can’t be very palatable. Who cares anyway (but some French) ?.
September 28th : the French discuss foreign cars. No comment, real French lovers should not need that, but if they like it, whatever works and it’s better to ride a German Panzer than to kill endangered animals, for the same absence of results.
September 27th : the French twit about the iPhone5, like the rest of the world (for once).
September 26th : the French President discusses Syria with some diplomats and chiefs of states at the UN while other world leaders play with their iPad, prepare for their own speech, or read their emails or notes, depending on wheter they have run out of smartphone battery yet. Not even the French care (about Syria). (Nb the French also discuss unemployment in France, that day, but let’s talk about it later).
September 25th : the French talk about Chili con carne. Nobody in the world can possibly believe that, but that’s the way it is, now, in the country of the French Paradox. That must be “le changement”. Let them talk about French foods (French fools ?).
September 24th : some French politicians try to talk about environment. Let the French ecolocrats talk together and discuss against themselves.
September 23rd : some French are going with the wind (at Coupe Icare, near Grenoble). Let them fly under the sunshine.
September 22nd : some French don’t laugh. Let them try and find a good joke.
September 21st : some French laugh. Some others don’t. Let’s not interfere, it’s their own problem if they don’t all have the same / a good sense of humor.
Nothing really new under the French sun last fortnight (or so) : some laugh (at France or in France, that’s just geography), some don’t (in France, or about France, that’s just history), and other folks just work (like the Germans or Chinese), or just don’t work (like the Greeks or those people with a lot of oil under their feet), but nobody is really afraid by France anymore really cares to ask about France anymore.
Renaud Favier – October 9th, 2012 – Café du matin à Paris
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Tagged Airbus, Apple iPhone 5, Bank holiday, banks, Banksters, Budget, business, Car industry, ChanelLuxury, Christmas, cinema, Citroen, compétitivité, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dassault, debt crisis, economics, entrepreneur, Euro, Eurocrisis, Europe, fashion, Fashion Week, film, France, French, French Baguette, French books, French car, French Cheese, French crisis, French culture, French eBooks, French Food, French High Tech, French Kiss, French Litterature, French Lover, French revolution, Frenchonomics, Fun, Halloween, Hollande, international, international business, joke, l'internationale, Lagardere, lost in translation, Louis Vuitton, LVMH, MondialAuto, movie, new technology, Nicolas Sarkozy, Olympic Games, Paris, Paris Fashion Week, Peugeot, PFW, Provence, Renault, revolution, romantic, romantism, sense of humor, Sex, sexy, socialism, tapis rouge, The French, think different, Think out of the box, Tourism in France, Tourism in Paris, unemployment, United states of Europe
Whatever the Brits may say, think , write or twit about France can only be wrong, over-ironic and biased, basically because they are a bunch of anti-frog cheaters, bank(st)ers and liars : for instance, the French (socialists) do not eat snails, on the contrary.
Renaud Favier, September 12, 2012.
Some additional e-reading may be needed about Europe, Euro-nomics, France, Frenchonomics, the options for Competitiveness in France in spite of it all …
… French Politics, French Wine, French Weather and other issues that may be of more importance for the real XXIst century in the world.
Please click on hereafter pictures if you don’t wanna be a potatoe couch watching the weather forecasts on Fox TV and let others enjoy sun, success, beach, love, Champagne, French learning bashing whilst you seat back in your chair reading the Sun, the Guardian or even worse and more biased against civilisation, the Financial Times and the Economist.
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The French consider that coming back from their summer holiday means being back at work (where most spend 35 hours per week, with 5 or 6 weeks holiday and RTT). This may explain something about their competitiveness ; “croissance” ; Frenchonomics.
Renaud Favier, August 21st, 2012.
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Tagged Angela Merkel, back at work, bank, Bankster, café, coffee, Commerce extérieur, compétitivité, competitiveness, cool, crisis, debt, Diplomacy, ECB, economics, Euro, Euroland, Europe, export, foreign trade, François Hollande, France, French, Frenchonomics, Fun, Germany, growth, holiday, humor, humour, IMF, industry, investment, joke, love, luck, Mario Fraghi, Market, markets, OECD, policy, policy making, Politics, RF, romantic, Sex, sexy, So French, Sports, stock exchange, success, Trade, Trierweiler, unemployment, work
Not that praising the Brits be my pleasure, especially as they cheated France a couple of time, but great games, with talent, energy and a little bit of Madness. Bravo and thank you @ everybody. Bravo and thank @ London. Bravo and merci, Madam. (Please, click on the hereabove picture for the debriefing of the games, and on the hereunder image for more praising of Great, Olympic Britain, which is as reliable as ever, both as a great friend and as a great … match).
Anyway, Olympics are as good as holiday and watching TV on the sofa with a cool beer or singing old anthems in a stadium or the streets, but it’s time to go back to real competition #InRealLife, now (please click on picture to download & read the free eBook) if you want to be able to pay the rent and to afford a German car made in Britain (or Germany, but those are much less fun, much more German).
RF, August 13th, 2012
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Paris nightlife used to be different before France discovered Revolutions and TV shows. In Oldschool French Politics, people used to talk more about Cuisine or Sex than local elections. Things change, even in Paris, and there may come more “Changement”.
Ps : the undertitle of Molinaro’s film is anachronic, and not to be considered in view of recent situations and people in France, things have changed, they always do, and people have changed, even politicians are different from what they used to be a couple of years centuries ago, there’s always something new happening in Paris. And by the way, the last trendy dish in town was “pâtes aux truffes”, not “asperges en petit pois”, but even the pasta is already has-been, everybody is on a diet now in France, and it may last quite a while even if the wheater is warm in Europe next summer.
But as the old French saying goes : “Les carottes sont cuites … let’s have dinner and the whole thing off, tomorrow will be another day et les lendemains vont chanter, whatever song, whoever sings, whatever works”.
That’s all there is to say now. But one never knows what may happen with those French People. Some are surprising and worth listening to, reading about, remembering for inspiration. Everybody knows, that when the going gets tough in France, the tough Frenchmen keep talking (some even walk their talk, but usually, voters and other citizens let them talk).
RF, really.
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