Never mind, it cannot get much worse in France …

Evolution of French presidents since the 1950’s – Credits : Jean-Marc

It cannot get much worse @Elysee … but some French spin doctors are working on it …

Renaud Favier – September 30th, 2014

Never mind, it’s just the French (already) fighting again for Elysée Palace

Matignon Palace, Paris, France

The French have always loved red carpets, palaces, romance, and “grandeur” …

Credits : Placide

This explains why French would be visitors and politicians queue-up by the hundreds when the palace is open for public visits, or fight like starving living deads to get invited for cocktails, garden-parties or dinners at “The Elysée Palace”. http://renaudfavier.com/2012/09/15/les-journees-du-patrimoine-2012-en-france-et-en-europe-cest-maintenant/

This must be the reason why the French former leader Nicolas Sarkozy is coming back into the ring http://surlepouceparis.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/sarkome-back-les-vraies-raisons-du-retour-de-nicolas-sarkozy/ 

Credits : Chappatte (tbc)

This must be why current French leader François Hollande has not resigned yet, in spire of disastrous polls http://renaudfavier.com/2014/09/20/france-la-foire-aux-petits-vains-honni-qui-aux-nains-y-pense-maintenant/

Credits : Chrib

Renaud Favier – September 20th, 2014

Good game, #Scotland … Same player shoot again #ScotlandIndependence …

In English, they say : Good Game, and her Majesty would add “We are amused”

In Germenglich, they say : Lieber s…tuffed like Salmond als savaged like Wallace

The Auld Allies in France say : C’est la vie (et l’avis de la majorité, pour cette fois)

De Gaulle would have said, in London, or Edinburgh  : “Vive l’Ecosse … libre !”

That’s all I have to say … for the time being.

Renaud Favier – September 19th, 2014

Today or not to die, that is the question … for Scotland

Credits : L’Amiral

I don’t really believe Auld Alliance’s Scotland may vote to leave their United Kingdom (only bookmakers and newspeople would like us to believe that), and I’m not sure my brains follow my (brave)heart in that case, but today is as good as any other day for whatever Kingdom, an ancient world, or whatever old dream, to die.

Renaud Favier – September 18th, 2014

Scots … are about as crazy as Frogs, but at least, they speak, and write decent English

“Independant Scotland – I don’t wanna see that” Credits : Kroll

Oh ! Shocking … (though, polls and politicians are equally unreliable as any other auld allies, generally speaking, and as regards Scotland and the September “Yes or No” referendum, specifically)  http://renaudfavier.com/2014/09/07/douter-ou-ne-pas-douter-du-resultat-du-referendum-en-ecosse-pour-commencer/

Renaud Favier – September 11th, 2014

Never mind, it’s just the French (President) at work (again)

So, the French President used to have a mistress (Valérie Trierweiler, a leftist journalist, like most French journalists), like most French, especially French politicians or Presidents of this or that. But unlike most of the French, his mistress was not a bonus (in French : “c’était pas un cadeau”), not a hot “5 à 7” like the French scooter drivers love to say, but the almost official French “First Lady”.

Golden teeth ?

 

Then, sexy Hollande officially dismissed the official mistress and started an unofficial relationship with another mistress, lovely Julie Gayet, an actress of course, but unlike most French, especially French politicians or Presidents of this or that, she was (besides she was a “she”) not another mistress, neither the mistress aside the First Lady, but just what the French call “Plan Q”, a “sex friend” in English.

 

Then, nobody really knows who left whom, but the French President was officially alone with his kids of another former, still older, mistress, for the summer holiday, and everything was seemingly perfect and quiet, French business as usual, if not hot and sexy as hell, in the best of French paparazzis, spin doctors, and summer book vendors’ worlds. 

Then, the former, former mistress wrote a book about her relationship with François Hollande, and the lovely Paris Indian Summer weather suddenly changed at Elysée Palace … 

But never mind, a French storm (“tempête sous crânes chauves”, in French) in Paris is not a Rio Butterfly, nobody gets hurt, nobody even notices but the Parisians, and some French in France.

Renaud Favier – September 10th, 2014

 

Hold on tight …

When the going gets real tough, the real tough ones hold on tight.

Renaud Favier – September 5th, 2014